School Shootings Quotes

When it comes to the law enforcement coordination and intelligence sharing, not only does the left hand have no knowledge of what the right hand is doing, one hand does not even recognize that the other hand exists.

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.

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.

'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

The Protect America's Schools Act is not the only answer, but it is a positive step forward in preventing tragedies.

Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?

This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and violence. We must redouble our efforts to see that this is a reality.

I am totally for gun control in the U.S. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. Every day we're seeing some kid running rampant in a school. And do you know what the gun lobby's response to Newtown was? The National Rifle Association's official response was, 'If that teacher had been armed' It's crazy.

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

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

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

Those responsible are turning schools into military targets and endangering the lives of the children.

Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their useful idiots. ... The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States.

I support the Second Amendment. But for God's sake - how can we knowingly pass bills and laws that are in direct opposition to saving kids' lives?

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

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

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV.

The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

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

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.

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?

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.