Quotes About School Shootings

#1. The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it.

Matthew Bright

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

Marilyn Manson

#3. None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

Paula Danziger

#4. 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.

Walter E. Williams

#5. School shootings were invented by blacks ... and stolen by the white man.

Chris Rock

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

Jackson Katz

#7. 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?

Jackson Katz

#8. 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.

Michael Moore

#9. To claim that America's "culture of violence" is responsible for school shootings is tantamount to cigarette company executives declaring that environmental pollution is the chief cause of lung cancer.

Stephen King

#10. Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

Charles E. Wilson

#11. I'm simply one hell of a butler.

Yana Toboso

#12. My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#13. Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

John Robinson

#14. Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

Amy Poehler

#15. Guns kill far more quickly and efficiently than knives, or crossbows, or toenail clippers; and, unlike bombs, you don't need to build one in your basement
they come ready-made! There's a reason why guns are the overwhelming weapon of choice among mass murderers.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#16. The question of why you're here-how we're all here- really does consume you," I said slowly ...
Matthew studied his wine. "It's the only question worth asking.

Deborah Harkness