“Shane Walsh: You think I'd shoot Rick? That is my best friend. That's the man that I love, I love him like he's my brother. You think that's the kind of man I am? Dale Horvath: That's right. Shane Walsh: Well maybe we oughta just think that through. See, if I'm the kind of man that would gun down hi…”— Angela Kang, Shane Walsh, Jon Bernthal, imdb.com
“This is why we have mass public attacks now rather than serial attackers. They know they’ll get caught so they try and go big on one.”— RampersandY, reddit.com
“Culture, like most human actions and interactions, exists as a constant, chaotic series of feedback loops.”— Eric Thurm, hazlitt.net
“Not every shooting is connected to mental health. Some people are simply malicious... Every shooting is connected to, by definition, one specific thing... I’ll give you a hint- it exists for the sole purpose of killing.”— Cameron Kasky, twitter.com
“It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life -- for all it's material good fortune -- has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent.”— Sebastian Junger, amazon.com
“I don’t want to get into the political argument of the guns and things. But what blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us, and us killing ourselves.”— Jon Stewart, washingtonpost.com
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Those who kill others do so in part because they cannot stand to think that others are alive while they are not, and they cannot bear their living death.”— James Gilligan, amazon.com
“A society cannot CONSISTENTLY spew vitriol about gay people, legislate against them, then act like this shooting is an isolated incident.”— Léonicka, twitter.com