Chris Murphy Quotes

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.

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.

We need a comprehensive strategy that includes expanding criminal background checks for all commercial gun sales, dedicated federal law to combat gun trafficking, and a strong commitment to mental health services.

Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

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?

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.

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

Not One More Death. Not One More Dollar

Whose child has to die next?

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

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.

If we are going to get serious about 'gun violence' we should get serious about facing the facts of the violent mentally ill.

There's been an enormous awakening, and I think recognition that the mass shootings we saw in Sandy Hook and other places are very related to the shootings we see every day in our cities.

Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.

I think it's safe to say that mass shootings pose a gigantic threat to national security.

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

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

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

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.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.