Afghanistan Quote by Nicholas D. Kristof

If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans…

— Michael D. Barnes

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

What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.

— Steven Petrow

The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by…

— Barack Obama

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S.…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

“From 2002 to 2008, the United States was fighting bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; among active military personnel, there were an average 1,643…

— Steven D. Levitt

“The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died of violent…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

— Andrew Niccol

No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other…

— Barack Obama

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

“Gun violence touches every class, color, and community, with thirty-three thousand people dying from guns each year—an average of ninety a day. That’s a…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in…

— Pete Hoekstra