“How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.” MenChildrenDoeCountryLawDiesRealizingPerfectViolenceGunTragedyVictimMadCriminalsZoneLocationCan NotMad Men Author:Alan Gottlieb
“I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.” ThinkingWarViolenceTerribleTragedySlaveryTiesCivil WarFlagsLinkedCrowJim CrowConfederateConfederate FlagTerrible Tragedy Author:William R. Ferris
“Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.” TalkingViolenceLateMassGunTragedyShootingMourningToo LateStringsAcceptableDiscussingAftermathGun ViolenceMass Shootings Author:Ezra Klein
“We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.” IfsKnowsTryingMindEvilPoliticsCommunityJusticeViolenceEthicsTragedyHuman RightsObligationSparesSenseless Violence Author:Barack Obama
“The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.” MoralViolenceTragedySupremeDestroyedBombs Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from - why their terrorism truly earns the word "acts." They are very theatrical, always - the simultaneous violence, the grandiose, symbolic gestures (the number 911, "United" and "American" flights, the World Trade as target etc). And then its aftermath.” WorldUnitedNumbersViolenceTragedyTradeTerrorismFlightEtcTargetAlsGesturesSymbolicTheatricalAl QaedaAftermathWorld TradeGrandioseSimultaneous Author:Porochista Khakpour
“Did you see, after this horrific tragedy in Boston, that [Barack] Obama cannot utter the word 'terrorist.' It's not politically correct. He even called the Fort Hood murderer 'workplace violence.' Because it's politically incorrect to talk about 'jihad,' or to talk about 'terrorist,' or to talk about 'the war on terror.' He won't say those words, because they're politically incorrect.” WarViolenceTragedyTerrorTerroristBarackWorkplaceMurdererBostonHoodWar On TerrorPolitically CorrectHorrificJihadForts Author:Rafael Cruz
“Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend.” LongAudienceViolenceMankindDramaConflictConcernedDatingTragedyGreekOld TestamentGreek Tragedy Author:Clint Eastwood
“In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of violence or tragedy or titillation or grossness or even sentimentality can move us, but how the written word elicits delight - what Nabokov calls that shiver in the spine - is much harder to calculate and define.” WritingEnoughMovingLyingReadingEasyViolenceMysterySceneTragedyWriting LifeSentimentalityWritten WordShiverReading And Writing Author:Alice McDermott