“I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.” MenGivingYoungWishGiving UpGunCamerasYoung ManFavourVegetarianismAdventurous Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.” ChildrenHandsYoungSawsFutureGunYoung ChildrenPremonition Author:Bob Dylan
“Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.” PeopleIfsWayLooksStatesYoungCertainCausesUnitedUnited StatesTakenViolenceDyingHigherGunMalesTendenciesAfrican AmericanGun ViolenceHomicideLeading Causes Author:Ryan Coogler
“Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.” ShouldStatesHandsKidsYoungDiesIndividualClearTeacherDutyExerciseProtectOrdinaryGunShould HavePerformancesDiedSacredAgentsSolemnSuggestingBulbsColumbineYoung Life Author:L. Neil Smith
“Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.” ShouldChildrenCountryAmericaYoungGrowsGoalLosesGrowing UpSuccessfulViolenceCitizensHealthyHighestGunAdultsAbuseAddictionYoung AdultIllValuableEducatedSecureJailOur FutureGun ViolenceGood CitizenIll HealthSingle Child Author:John F. Kerry
“The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.” PersonsHappensYoungFourHappenedWorstGunWorst Things Author:Paul Theroux
“I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.” ChildrenHardHandsYoungFallSawsBrokenThousandTenGunRainTongueYoung ChildrenTalkersPortents Author:Bob Dylan
“I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.” ThinkingLittlesYoungDifficultAttentionLuckyMarriedGunHandleHappily Married Author:Steve Carell
“One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'” LooksKindSaidRunningYoungGuyFatherChristTalentDirectorsGunRelationSalvationIncrediblesSakeProductionsProducersOur FamilyUncomfortableChairsComplimentThat GuyAssistants Author:Michael Ironside
“What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those pleasure aspects, completing ignoring the fact that Hollywood as an industry, was pointing the gun at young people - pointing a gun at them when they were 12 to 14 years.” PeopleYearsMadeDoneFactsYoungPleasureIndustryGunAspectHollywoodSexyMade ItPointingThrough The YearsSensuousCompleting Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause of death for all people aged fifteen to twenty-four. That makes it the leading health issue, particularly when guns are used in combination with drugs and alcohol. And the statistics show that is most often the case.” PeopleMenShowsYoungUsedCausesBlackCasesIssuesFourDrugDiseaseGunTwentiesAlcoholCombinationStatisticsFifteenInvolvingDrugs And AlcoholHomicideHealth IssuesLeading Causes Author:Joycelyn Elders
“I don't know how anybody can say that who looks at what's happening to our young people and what's happening to our country, all because of guns. The NRA is putting themselves in a position where people will no longer trust them. They've been trusted in the past, but now their credibility is on the line.” PeopleKnowsLooksCountryPastYoungLinesKnow HowPositionHappeningsGunOur CountryTrustedCredibilityNra Author:Joycelyn Elders
“We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.” PeopleWayNeedsSaidCareSchoolYoungParentChurchDealsSituationIssuesTeachingHealthyGunAgreeCaringHealth CareAddresses Author:Joycelyn Elders
“My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.” PeopleTryingLongHelpingHandsYoungFightingMinesHeroGunWoodsBombsGrandmotherSurvivorHolocaustNaziMy GrandmotherPartisansHolocaust Survivor Author:Margaret D. Klein
“In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.” PeopleThinkingFirstsChildrenYoungLostParentBlackCommunityWhitePoorAttentionTalkingViolenceParticularGunPaidSlaveryCampaignsVulnerableBlack PeopleAdulthoodDisabledCrusadesGun ViolenceLynchingBlack Community Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.” MenSaidTwoTogetherYoungNextCausesCommunityGunPoliceNineAfrican AmericanTwo ThingsEpidemicsLeading Causes Author:Hillary Clinton
“It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young man, and no old man either, should have so much power over the life and death of so many helpless individuals. It is corrupting. It sometimes provokes desperate, savage and indiscriminate violence among the occupied.” MenShouldYearsLittlesSometimesYoungGirlIndividualBoysViolenceArmsKingsGunShould HaveMachinesYoung ManDesperateLife And DeathOld ManVillageAlmightySavagesHelplessProvokingMachine Guns Author:Amos Oz
“America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.” PeopleWantPersonsRunningAmericaYoungStrongPowerfulMillionsStreetsWallGunSafetyEnvironmentalCorporationsVotingMost PowerfulGun ControlWant UClicksLobbyists Author:Patti Smith
“How are people who are young and look like Oscar [Grant] portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody given a badge and a gun and told to go police in those communities, all of a sudden they got to protect and serve and talk to people they never even spent time with [and] they might have formed opinions about.” PeopleThinkingLooksMightYoungGivenCommunityOpinionMediaProtectGunPoliceGrantsOscarsBadgesProtect And Serve Author:Michael B. Jordan
“As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingWellsDoneMightYoungGraceImagineCoupleGunFollowingCreditTeenagerYoung WomenMicrophonesGrate Author:Barack Obama
“As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.” MenReasonBodyWantedJobsYoungFeltPicksGunMachinesBonesYoung ManNo ReasonInvitedUpbringingMachine Guns Author:Pete Townshend
“If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.” IfsMenYearsPlayWantedAmericaYoungTurnsBlackLosesHellStreetsRepublicanGunPlentyJailScenarios Author:Andrew Young
“maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.” IfsMenTryingCountryHardLightTodayYoungWalksStepsPathOur LivesSkyMissingIgnoranceCoupleGunArgumentBusyRememberedYoung ManSilverWhat IfResolveWakingYellowCandleGlowingSwearingDiscsOverlappingBlackbirdsSapphires Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” PeopleMenWholeFactsUseBodyYoungLibertyTaughtArmsBearsEssentialsCapableGunPreservesAmendmentsGun ControlFoundingSecond AmendmentOur Founding FathersFirearmsUs Founding FathersRight To Bear ArmsMilitiaBearing ArmsGun RightsPro GunFounding Fathers Gun2 AmendmentFounding Fathers Second AmendmentAnti GunAmendment 1Strong ArmsAmendment 19Amendment 4Amendment 13 Author:Richard Henry Lee