Bill Simmons Quotes

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'

For it not to be safe for kids in school, it's tragic.

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

One of the really painful things we have found out about weapons carried by our kids is that they think they have to bring in the weapons to protect themselves.

It is a sad reality that active shooter drills are a standard way of life for kids as young as pre-school.

Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.

We've got to look to our educational programs and focus on doing what we can to stem violence in the schools.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow.

We protect our banks, hospitals and airports with armed personnel; surely, we can do more to protect schools, which teach our nation's most valuable resource.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.