Quotes tagged ‘school shootings’

“The news station asked the student for information, to which the student replied that he had their station on and was trying to figure out what was happening himself.”

— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com

“The only way to stop an active shooter on campus is to have another person to—to eliminate him.”

— Kyle Kashuv, cbsnews.com

“I cut a piece of Alyssa’s hair off because I didn’t want the killer to take everything from me.”

— Lori Alhadeff, thecut.com

“There have been more mass school-shooting deaths in the past 18 years than in all of the 20th century. The long list of casualties includes a classroom full of first-graders, an event that shocked the nation — but not enough.”

— Jared Soule, Amelia Schonbek, nymag.com

“Wattpad’s relative obscurity probably has something to do with its main demographic of teens and preteens. But lately, the kids on Wattpad are contributing, in their own way, to a very mainstream national conversation — by churning out stories about school shootings.”

— Aja Romano, vox.com

“His anger is understandable, but his actions are not justifiable — and that difference is absolutely crucial.”

— De Elizabeth, teenvogue.com

“So far in 2018, a member of the military has been about 40 times as likely to be killed as someone is to die in a school shooting, including Keller’s revised figures.”

— Philip Bump, washingtonpost.com

“Any way you cut it, one of the biggest threats to life as a teen in the U.S. today is being shot.”

— Emma González, teenvogue.com

“After all of this pain and all of this death caused by gun violence, it seems as if the kids are the only ones who still have the energy to make change.”

— Emma González, teenvogue.com

“Everybody needs to understand how we feel and what we went through, because if they don’t, they’re not going to be able to understand why we’re fighting for what we’re fighting for.”

— Emma González, nytimes.com

“We have grown up in this country and watched violence unfold to no resolution. We have watched people with the power and authority to make changes fail to do so.”

— Emma González, teenvogue.com

“Nikolas Cruz would not have harmed that many students with a knife.”

— Emma González, cnn.com

“The implication that Cruz’s mental health issues could have been solved if only he had been loved more by his fellow students is both a gross misunderstanding of how these diseases work and a dangerous suggestion that puts children on the front line.”

— Isabelle Robinson, nytimes.com

“Fight for your lives before it's someone else's job.”

— Emma González, twitter.com

“Documented examples include high-functioning autistics who collect child porn to pretend to plan a school shooting. They know that there's power in those images and those actions, but for them, there's no paraphilia behind it. They don't derive pleasure from it. What I don't see is someone who's int…”

— Erica Messer, Breen Frazier, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“We’re the mass shooting generation. I was born months after Columbine. I’m 17 years old and we’ve had 17 years of mass shootings.”

— Cameron Kasky, huffingtonpost.com

“Take the case of Nikolas Cruz, or any other proven school shooter. Arresting him earlier in the process might have delayed a violent outcome by a few years years, but likely wouldn’t have solved any underlying problem.”

— Paul DeBenedetto, theoutline.com

“I want you to consider this, especially if you are a Trump supporter or a member of the NRA: Do you really think these kids — these teenagers who spoke out after a shooting at their school — are actors who are part of some sort of deep state, left-wing conspiracy? If the answer is ‘Yes, I do believe…”

— Jimmy Kimmel, msn.com

“There had been a number of incidents prior to creating this song that had moved him—I think the was really troubled by this trend of people going and shooting kids. He was very much aware of making a statement about gun control and the importance of that in his own style.”

— Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, amazon.com