Children Quote by John R. Lott Jr

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection…

— Jackson Katz

“To do just that, Bill Landes (University of Chicago Law School) and I collected data on all multiple victim public shootings in all the…

— John R. Lott Jr

“For all the emphasis on assault weapons, 68 percent of mass public shootings did not involve any long guns (Figure 2). Eighty-four percent of…

— John R. Lott Jr

“In fact, private citizens legally use firearms in self-defense 800,000 to two and one half million times a year according to a study by…

— Jon Gutmacher

“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 are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse…

— Ted Nugent

Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.

— Suzy Shuster

Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the…

— Ronald Reagan

“...when one considers that there are more than 750,000 police officers in the United States and that these officers have tens of millions of…

— David Klinger

“each day 14 children under the age of 19 are killed by guns”

— National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) Staff

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other…

— Fred Thompson

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