Mass Shooting Quotes

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am afraid we can only imagine the terror and the carnage there and the many, many innocent people who will have lost their lives... It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

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

I think, for me, anybody who is a terrorist should not have access to firearms.

Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake, with actors - in my view, manufactured.

I believe Sandy Hook happened.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

I'll never forget coming home after covering Sandy Hook. Seeing the faces of family members. The firefighters who could never unsee the unthinkable. Those tiny caskets. I came home, sat in my dark apartment because I didn't even bother to turn the lights on, and wept.

Shoot up everything except a school or a playground

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.

'Parkland' is not out to pick a fight and start a dialogue about conspiracy.

I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco.

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

If you look at Paris, they didn't have guns and they were slaughtered. If you look at what happened in California, they didn't have guns, they were slaughtered. They could've protected themselves if they had guns.

In the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a false accusation has made its way back into the media: President Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to get guns. This claim is absolutely false.

The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.

How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?