Violence Statistics Quotes

I think one year I was responsible for 163 screen deaths. That was a pretty good year for me, although it seems better than it actually was at a glance; 72 of those deaths were accounted for in one show.

Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

Since 9-11, more women have been killed by their husbands or boyfriends that Americans have been killed in 9-11, Iraq, and Afghanistan put together.

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group.

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.

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.

A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84 percent of those who are victims of domestic violence remain silent.

There is a great deal of romance attached to American gun use that should be examined more closely, such as the curious notion that Americans are somehow naturally brilliant shooters. The examination of historical specifics tends to undermine most myths. For example, it is estimated that the 7th Cavalry fired 40,000 rounds at Little Big Horn, killing sixty Indians and wounding one hundred.

You look at the inner cities and you see bad education, no jobs, no safety. You walk to the grocery store with your child and you get shot. You walk outside to look and see what's happening, and you get shot. In Chicago 3,000 people have been shot since January 1st. I am not going to let that happen.

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.