Air Quote by Justine Bateman

When 9/11 happened, it changed things overnight, giving the biggest shock treatment to individual agency. People in the U.S., the absolute stronghold of individualism…

— Rohini Nilekani

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention…

— Ethan Zuckerman

It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new American identity…

— Porochista Khakpour

The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

— PattiSue Plumer

After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat, we must…

— George W. Bush

Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

— Jon Meacham

The gun violence epidemic is out of control and it's a crisis that is too glaring to ignore.

— Ritchie Torres

“Finally, we must bear in mind that guns are not the only tools of mass killing. In America, by far the worst mass murder…

— John R. Lott Jr

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

— Dolly Parton

“In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.”

— Bryant McGill

9/11 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever…

— John Dean