Lori Lightfoot Quotes

Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.

Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.

There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be.

Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.

Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.

As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.

Gun violence is a problem that this country should be addressing.

It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

I'm someone who's seen firsthand the effects of gun violence. I've had to carry a gun to do my job in the war. And I know as well as anyone that this violence has no place on our streets, in our schools, in our concerts, so we've got to do something about it.

Handguns are a public health issue.

As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

We must get rid of all the guns.

While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I take these recommendations very seriously, and will listen to the voices of my constituents to ensure I do everything I can to help prevent gun violence.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities.