Mass Shootings Quotes

“When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“If guns don't kill people, why do mass killers arm themselves with guns?”
― DaShanne Stokes

“After another deadly weekend,
mass shootings across the country,
we know--oh, how we know--how high the stakes,
how polarized the public:
the desperation for liberty, equality, and justice
and the rage and backlash against it.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Thoughts and prayers won't stop a speeding bullet.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“In America, people with pre-existing mental health issues have access to firearms but not healthcare. Thanks, Republicans!”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“When nearly 3,000 people died on 9/11, it was enough to create massive change in our society. Over ten times as many people die from guns each year. Where is the social change?”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The NRA kills more Americans than Muslim terrorists do.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“If the GOP truly cared about saving lives, they'd stop blocking gun violence research.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Everyone keeps saying tragedy with vague disdain, as if the shooting was just a mad dream, not some kid adding his personal darkness to a collective shadow that had already spread across our lives.”
― John Englehardt, Bloomland

“Guns don't kill people. Gun owners kill people.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“You can't put guns in people's hands and then claim no responsibility when they murder people.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“According to a 2000 New York Times study of 100 "rampage" mass murders, where 425 people were killed and 510 injured, the killers:

1. Often have serious mental health issues
2. Are not usually motivated by exposure to videos, movies, or television
3. Are not using alcohol or other drugs at the time of the attacks
4. Are often unemployed
5. Are sometimes female
6. Are not usually Satanists or racists
7. Are most often white males although a few are Asian or African American
8. Sometimes have college degrees or some years of college
9. Often have military experience
10. Give lots of pre-attack warning signals
11. Often carry semiautomatic weapons obtained legally
12. Often do no attempt escape
13. Half commit suicide or are killed by others
14. Most have a death wish (Fessenden, 2000)”
― Eric W. Hickey, Serial Murderers and their Victims

“Gun lobbyists only care about their guns. They don't care about the anguish or the tears that they inflict on others.
It's about time that the USA stood up for those who have been slain and for those that have been left behind.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Claiming no responsibility when you put guns into people's hands and they commit murder is like drug dealers claiming no responsibility for people dying from the drugs they sold them.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Raise your gun in anger, then hang your head in sorrow.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“No, guns were not meant for overthrowing a tyrannical government. Guns were for protecting the tyrannical government against Native Americans and slave uprisings.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind Of An Introvert

“. . . we now live in a politically charged world of endless entitlement and victimization; anything upsetting, unfulfilling, or considered disenfranchising or oppressive is to be laid at the feet of society and the cultures that are produced—everything is society's fault. With its evolutionary understanding of life and reality, retaliation is not only expected it is culturally applauded—society must evolve—people must change. This cultural conditioning has become the necessary catalyst for murder and suicide. It not only sets the expectation but practically grants permission. This is the message today's young people are taught every day of their lives.”
― Roger Ball, American Bloodlust: The Violent Psychological Conditioning of Today’s Young People

“The end of the world was mistaken
for just another midday massacre
in America.”
― Saeed Jones, Alive at the End of the World

“When racks shed arms like autumn leaves, the land shall turn from red to gold”
― Agona Apell

“By right we arm but by love, disarm. Now is the nation called to love. By gun control we challenge not your rights to arms but your heart to sacrifice that love entails. So give me not a reading of the law but tales of love's deeds in hearts and homes -- how racks have shed arms like autumn leaves and turned the land from red to gold.”
― Agona Apell

“Soldiers understand and know death.
Families only understand grief, anger and sorrow.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Open the casket of my son
The blast of a gun blew his head off
He was healthy, alive, and young
Show this tragedy to the world
I don't want his death to be in vain.
Write laws that protect people, not AR-15s.”
― Mary Lanza, Losing the Boomer Blues

“To recap, here’s what we all can do to stop the mass shooting epidemic:

As Individuals:
Trauma: Build relationships and mentor young people
Crisis: Develop strong skills in crisis intervention and suicide prevention
Social proof: Monitor our own media consumption
Opportunity: Safe storage of firearms; if you see or hear something, say something.

As Institutions:
Trauma: Create warm environments; trauma-informed practices; universal trauma screening
Crisis: Build care teams and referral processes; train staff
Social proof: Teach media literacy; limit active shooter drills for children
Opportunity: Situational crime prevention; anonymous reporting systems

As a Society:
Trauma: Teach social emotional learning in schools. Build a strong social safety net with adequate jobs, childcare, maternity leave, health insurance, and access to higher education
Crisis: Reduce stigma and increase knowledge of mental health; open access to high quality mental health treatment; fund counselors in schools
Social proof: No Notoriety protocol; hold media and social media companies accountable for their content
Opportunity: Universal background checks, red flag laws, permit-to-purchase, magazine limits, wait periods, assault rifle ban”
― Jillian Peterson, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

“our data on 133 completed and attempted school mass shootings over the past forty years show that there were no differences in the number of people killed or injured between schools that regularly ran lockdown drills and those that didn’t. The number of casualties in school mass shootings has remained relatively steady over the past forty years, while our attempts at security have become more time-consuming, costly, and elaborate. In fact, evidence suggests that active shooter drills may do more harm than good.”
― Jillian Peterson, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

“[The biologist Richard] Dawkins defined memes as ideas that spread from brain to brain—a cultural analogue to genes that replicate and spread. The concept is mostly used now to describe funny or irreverent images that go viral online and then are altered to keep the joke or idea alive as it ricochets around the internet. But in a digital age, when attackers can upload their own words and deeds to social media rather than relying on TV to achieve notoriety, it has a darker connotation….Mass shooters are unique only in that they don’t want to live in the glory of their newly achieved social status and visibility. They want notoriety, to become legends in their deaths.”
― Jillian Peterson, The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

“Kids over cash,
Women over semen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Guns are just viagra for the impotent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“We dialed the newly dead
but they wouldn't answer. We texted,
begging us to call them back, but
the newly dead don't know how to
read. In America, a gathering of people
is called target practice or a funeral,
depending on who lives long enough
to define the terms.”
― Saeed Jones, Alive at the End of the World

“If prayer is the most effective way to prevent mass shootings, how come no one ever brings Rosary Beads to a gunfight?”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“The tension between preserving constitutional rights and protecting lives remains at the heart of the national conversation. (Unloading the Gun Laws)”
― Carlos Wallace