Children Quote by Emma Gonzalez

You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead to violence…

— Chris Murphy

“There is another real cost to linking gun violence with mental illness. Dr. Renee Binder, President of the American Psychiatric Association and herself a…

— John R. Lott Jr

We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The…

— Barack Obama

A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together in national…

— Chirlane McCray

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It…

— Nita Lowey

There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about…

— David Brooks

Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.

— Charles B. Rangel

“What happens when children observe domestic violence, warfare, a gang murder, a school massacre? For weeks afterward there is impaired concentration and impulse control.…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

There's a mental health problem in the sense that people are so afraid of the stigma that they don't get help. But there's absolutely…

— Rosalynn Carter

I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the…

— Daayiee Abdullah

Mental illness, hate and anger exist everywhere, but in America too often it comes armed.

— Lucy McBath

We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in…

— Joycelyn Elders