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Thousands of victims – particularly women and children – are at very serious risk because of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in this case as are potential victims of future mass shootings, often perpetrated by domestic abusers. – Douglas Letter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The three things that every school leader better pay a lot of attention to is we have limited time, energy and budget for safety, so we can’t afford to waste any of that. We can’t spend our budget or training time on something that we don’t have pretty good evidence actually bears fruit. With the caution that nothing’s going to be 100 percent. This idea that we’re gonna stop all school shootings; there’s just, no country has been able to do that. – Michael Dorn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For gun violence survivors, this is an incredibly painful milestone to mark, and it arrives earlier and earlier each year, but survivors are increasingly taking action, and demanding our lawmakers stand up to the corporate gun industry and take comprehensive steps to reduce the recent influx of mass shootings. – Liz Dunning	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s better to start enacting these reforms and start having less mass shootings than it is to sit in silence and do nothing, we’ve had bills like this introduced before in Michigan and sometimes they don’t get much traction, they don’t go very far, or they die in committee. I’m hoping that this time will be different. – Annie Heitmeier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s just devastating to see the frequency with which these mass shootings are taking place these days. – Ken Wainstein	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When these shootings happen, there’s so much despair, there’s so much tragedy and fear that can ripple across communities. – Kelsey Gastineau	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Fortunately, nobody has been injured by these shootings, but every time someone fires a gun into a home or business, there is a potential for tragedy. Our detectives are working overtime to track down the offender or offenders and hold them responsible. – Harold Medina	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Ninety-nine percent of people are very responsible gun owners. Unfortunately, saying it’s only 1% (who are not) gives no solace to someone who lost somebody senselessly in Buffalo or in one of these mass shootings. – Jeremy Jacobs	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
For a century and a half, 18-year-olds could buy rifles and we didn’t have school shootings. But we do, maybe we’re focusing our attention on the wrong thing. – Greg Abbott	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'm fed up with people getting killed every day, god knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert... it's f *** g crazy. – Ozzy Osbourne**	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our officers quietly investigated and collaborated with their law enforcement partners and the community to stop what could've been a terrible day for the city of Richmond, as we continue to live through an era, an age, of mass shootings and all around our country, no community is immune. – Levar Stoney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Most of the shootings that we have here in New York City are done by teenagers, anywhere from 13 to 18, 19-year range. That's probably the bulk of it, some of it might be gang-related. Some of it might be drug-related. … It's a little hard to pinpoint exactly what the causes are. It just seems to be a lot of guns in the street with little fear of the criminal justice system. – Joseph Giacalone	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
With the kind of violent crime we see here in Baltimore, the number of homicides and shootings, we see people's willingness to use those guns only because they made a conscious decision to carry them unlawfully. This decision now exponentially exacerbates that problem. – Michael Harrison	Found on CNN 1 year ago
How does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo ? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop the perpetrator. – Samuel Alito	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Residence are feeling dismayed, obviously. There's a general feeling of fear, whether it's perception or reality just because of the numbers we're seeing, our homicides have been trending slightly downward, but … we're still seeing a vast number of shootings. – Danielle Outlaw	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There are so many things that people are juggling between, gas prices, and inflation, baby formula, abortion, and the shootings that are happening. – Yamiche Alcindor	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If we zero in on those shooters and the individuals who are participating in the shootings, if we do the work to get it to the grand jury, to get that indictment, to make the arrest, then the other team must do their part, the courts have to prosecute. Judges have to make sure they stay in. Everyone has to do their part. If not, they go out and come back. – New York	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There's slashings. There's shootings, my last email to the mayor's office was that, amongst other things, we just had a massacre in Texas, an unstable man who was ignored, but it's not like people didn't know he was unstable. We have a park of mentally unstable people currently slashing and shooting each other. What would make us think this wouldn't turn into something much more tragic ? – Elizabeth Clay	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are expecting to approve charges later today for at least two people in connection to what we anticipate are non-fatal shootings. – Larry Krasner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I was very disappointed there wasn’t one mention of starting to refocus and strategically target persons that are carrying guns illegally, especially previously convicted felons and persons on probation or parole, as that should be the backbone of any anti-violence program in Philadelphia, but since he’s taken office, we’ve seen a significant reduction in prosecutions in general and for persons carrying guns illegally. I think that’s counterproductive for a time when the city of Philadelphia is setting records for gun-related homicides and shootings. – Joe Sullivan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
These kinds of mass shootings rarely happen in other parts of the world, but they have mental health problems. They have people who are lost... Why are we willing to let this happen ? Where, in God's name, is our backbone ? It's time to turn this pain into action. – President Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This fits into a model that we've seen over and over and over again, at this point we know that the consumption of these videos creates copycat mass shootings. – Ben Decker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It has an additive benefit that shouldn't be discounted or looked down upon because an academic study says this won't reduce crime by' x' percentage points, but we know for an absolute fact that guns are used in suicides, in homicides, and of course shootings. Those things, taking that weapon out of a place it's unwanted and unused, giving people a responsible method for disposing of it, have a benefit. – Glen Brooks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
People were talking about shootings and explosions and I was like,' Yeah, whatever,'. – Guillermo Tejeta	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Thousands of victims – particularly women and children – are at very serious risk because of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in this case as are potential victims of future mass shootings, often perpetrated by domestic abusers.

– Douglas Letter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The three things that every school leader better pay a lot of attention to is we have limited time, energy and budget for safety, so we can’t afford to waste any of that. We can’t spend our budget or training time on something that we don’t have pretty good evidence actually bears fruit. With the caution that nothing’s going to be 100 percent. This idea that we’re gonna stop all school shootings; there’s just, no country has been able to do that.

– Michael Dorn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For gun violence survivors, this is an incredibly painful milestone to mark, and it arrives earlier and earlier each year, but survivors are increasingly taking action, and demanding our lawmakers stand up to the corporate gun industry and take comprehensive steps to reduce the recent influx of mass shootings.

– Liz Dunning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s better to start enacting these reforms and start having less mass shootings than it is to sit in silence and do nothing, we’ve had bills like this introduced before in Michigan and sometimes they don’t get much traction, they don’t go very far, or they die in committee. I’m hoping that this time will be different.

– Annie Heitmeier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s just devastating to see the frequency with which these mass shootings are taking place these days.

– Ken Wainstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When these shootings happen, there’s so much despair, there’s so much tragedy and fear that can ripple across communities.

– Kelsey Gastineau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fortunately, nobody has been injured by these shootings, but every time someone fires a gun into a home or business, there is a potential for tragedy. Our detectives are working overtime to track down the offender or offenders and hold them responsible.

– Harold Medina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ninety-nine percent of people are very responsible gun owners. Unfortunately, saying it’s only 1% (who are not) gives no solace to someone who lost somebody senselessly in Buffalo or in one of these mass shootings.

– Jeremy Jacobs

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For a century and a half, 18-year-olds could buy rifles and we didn’t have school shootings. But we do, maybe we’re focusing our attention on the wrong thing.

– Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm fed up with people getting killed every day, god knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert... it's f ***** g crazy.

– Ozzy Osbourne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our officers quietly investigated and collaborated with their law enforcement partners and the community to stop what could've been a terrible day for the city of Richmond, as we continue to live through an era, an age, of mass shootings and all around our country, no community is immune.

– Levar Stoney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most of the shootings that we have here in New York City are done by teenagers, anywhere from 13 to 18, 19-year range. That's probably the bulk of it, some of it might be gang-related. Some of it might be drug-related. … It's a little hard to pinpoint exactly what the causes are. It just seems to be a lot of guns in the street with little fear of the criminal justice system.

– Joseph Giacalone

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

With the kind of violent crime we see here in Baltimore, the number of homicides and shootings, we see people's willingness to use those guns only because they made a conscious decision to carry them unlawfully. This decision now exponentially exacerbates that problem.

– Michael Harrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

How does the dissent account for the fact that one of the mass shootings near the top of its list took place in Buffalo ? The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop the perpetrator.

– Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Residence are feeling dismayed, obviously. There's a general feeling of fear, whether it's perception or reality just because of the numbers we're seeing, our homicides have been trending slightly downward, but … we're still seeing a vast number of shootings.

– Danielle Outlaw

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There are so many things that people are juggling between, gas prices, and inflation, baby formula, abortion, and the shootings that are happening.

– Yamiche Alcindor

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we zero in on those shooters and the individuals who are participating in the shootings, if we do the work to get it to the grand jury, to get that indictment, to make the arrest, then the other team must do their part, the courts have to prosecute. Judges have to make sure they stay in. Everyone has to do their part. If not, they go out and come back.

– New York

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's slashings. There's shootings, my last email to the mayor's office was that, amongst other things, we just had a massacre in Texas, an unstable man who was ignored, but it's not like people didn't know he was unstable. We have a park of mentally unstable people currently slashing and shooting each other. What would make us think this wouldn't turn into something much more tragic ?

– Elizabeth Clay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are expecting to approve charges later today for at least two people in connection to what we anticipate are non-fatal shootings.

– Larry Krasner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was very disappointed there wasn’t one mention of starting to refocus and strategically target persons that are carrying guns illegally, especially previously convicted felons and persons on probation or parole, as that should be the backbone of any anti-violence program in Philadelphia, but since he’s taken office, we’ve seen a significant reduction in prosecutions in general and for persons carrying guns illegally. I think that’s counterproductive for a time when the city of Philadelphia is setting records for gun-related homicides and shootings.

– Joe Sullivan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

These kinds of mass shootings rarely happen in other parts of the world, but they have mental health problems. They have people who are lost... Why are we willing to let this happen ? Where, in God's name, is our backbone ? It's time to turn this pain into action.

– President Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This fits into a model that we've seen over and over and over again, at this point we know that the consumption of these videos creates copycat mass shootings.

– Ben Decker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It has an additive benefit that shouldn't be discounted or looked down upon because an academic study says this won't reduce crime by' x' percentage points, but we know for an absolute fact that guns are used in suicides, in homicides, and of course shootings. Those things, taking that weapon out of a place it's unwanted and unused, giving people a responsible method for disposing of it, have a benefit.

– Glen Brooks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People were talking about shootings and explosions and I was like,' Yeah, whatever,'.

– Guillermo Tejeta

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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