Roxanna Green Quotes

It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

Too many policy decisions over the years have been made by men in closed rooms not thinking about the dead bodies. When bullets fly, people die. Pictures ram that message home.

We cannot continue to trade our children’s lives against the gun industry’s profits…. It is time to stop killing our children.

We must work to stop gun violence. I’ve consoled far too many parents whose children were taken too soon. We need to come together across party, racial, and religious lines. It’s time to take responsibility for making sure our babies grow up.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead to violence anywhere else but America.

If the question is around gun violence and the results of that, please know that my heart bleeds and is broken for those families that have lost any individual due to gun violence.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

The gun culture that is so negative for America will never be a part of the culture of Australia.

Where there are sick people and easy access to guns, there will be terror …. Maybe we should rethink this whole gun control thing.

There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, but it's something you do much later.

Gun Control is Being Able to Hit What You Aim At

There are too many guns too easily accessible to kids, and we have to do something about it …. We no longer live in a society where mass murder … is unthinkable.

We have had over 400,000 Americans killed in our country by guns since JFK and Martin Luther King were. That is more Americans dead than were killed in WWII.

Stop using the word’s “gun control”. All the 2nd Amendment enthusiasts hear is CONTROL. Let’s use “gun violence”, “gun safety” and other terms that are less confrontational.

If abortion is different because it’s about life and death, so too, potentially, are guns, yet we seem positively loath to examine people’s reasons for wanting to own them.... And unlike abortion, guns kill more than 32,000 actually existing people every year.

28,000 people were killed in the world last year by terrorists. Every death is a tragedy but we should keep this in perspective, After all, over 30,000 people last year were victims of gun death in the United States alone.

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