“Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” GunMurderCamerasPhotographAppropriateFrightenedSubliminal Author:Susan Sontag
“No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.” KindDifferentAmericaFallThreePoliticsNationsCommunityJusticeDecisionViolenceFailingPolicyTenEthicsGunMurderEndureRateIdeologyInevitableForeign PolicyThree TimesDecisions We MakeDeveloped Nations Author:Barack Obama
“Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?” IfsWayLittlesCountryMomentsUseHappensPassionHalfGunMurderCommittedNoiseLoudSatisfyingKnivesHammersClose FriendsAgilityDeceased Author:John D. MacDonald
“Blaming guns for murder is like blaming forks for obesity.” GunMurderBlameObesityForks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This is part of the president's problem. Where's Barack Obama been when the crime rate and the murder rate in Chicago has gone up in 18 percent? Where has he been when the murder rate in New York is up 11 percent? Instead he and liberals like Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel and others, what they're doing is not supporting the police departments, not making sure that they're being supported, and they're letting them do their jobs. And so we have criminals who have easy access to guns.” ProblemJobsEasyPresidentGoneCrimeNew YorkPercentGunMurderPoliceBillsRateCriminalsAccessBarackDepartmentChicagoPolice DepartmentCrime RatesEasy Access Author:Chris Christie
“I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?” KindArtCultureEmotionViolenceGunMurderExcellencePop CultureTarantino Author:Jeff Buckley
“If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.” IfsGunMurderAmmo Author:Michael Moore
“Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.” IfsCountryLawStrongPicksGunMurderRateDataGun ControlCherries Author:Thomas Sowell
“Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns.” MenMeanChildrenAgeLawSocialCausesRaceTalkingIssuesSubjectsGunMurderPassingPassingsAfrican AmericanMinoritiesBreakdownSocial Status Author:Juan Williams
“Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.” BigsCitiesViolenceGunMurderRelatedLatinoBig Cities Author:Juan Williams
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” PeopleTurnsSeeingObjectsGunMurderCamerasPhotographAppropriateFrightenedPossessedSubliminal Book:On photography Source: On photography
“Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.” StatesSeemsPainLawPoliticalCitiesDrugGunMurderStrictGun ControlRight To Bear ArmsMayhemNraGun LawDrug LawsStrict Laws Author:Mike Royko