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There are sporadic shootings in some areas. – Sayed Sarwar Hussaini	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings, friends of ours, allies of ours -- Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings, friends of ours, allies of ours — Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The shootings will not go away until policies, elected officials change. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I can tell you that I always find it interesting that the reflexive reaction of the left is to say we need more gun laws, criminals don't follow gun laws. Only law-abiding people follow gun laws. And there is just no evidence that these gun laws would prevent these shootings. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We got him ! DPS SWAT team is in custody of the individual suspected of I-10 shootings. Apprehended moments ago. – Arizona Governor Doug Ducey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
After Sandy Hook, and the theater shootings, everybody thought, gosh this is terrible, we have got to do something to keep people that are mentally disturbed, we got to keep them away from guns and having the ability to get guns. – Vester Lee Flanagan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
With police-involved shootings now in this country, we’re very hypercritical of every officer’s actions. But the suspect was armed with a box cutter, the officer used deadly force as a last resort. – Police Chief David Brown	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a very gun-friendly legislature and the shootings this week will do little to change that. – Stephen Farnsworth	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These shootings have got to stop. I don't know how else to say it. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We take all shootings very seriously. Obviously when you have an attack on a U.S. military facility, then we have to make sure that we have all the information necessary to make an assessment in terms of how this attack took place and what further precautions we can take in the future. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We’re fighting against mass violence, shootings, unemployment, and it is not the right symbol, in terms of what we’re trying to brand the city of Detroit as being. – David Bullock	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It struck me as odd that other shootings occurred around the same time, i knew that day that I wanted to look into this further. – Sherry Towers	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't believe he had a serious psychotic break prior to the shootings, he had the capacity to know that the shootings were highly illegal (and) knew beforehand his victims would suffer. – William Reid	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are never going to reduce the number of police shootings if we don’t begin to accurately track this information. – Jim Bueermann	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I reviewed the case to the best of my ability and did not find race played a role in the shootings. – David Shepack	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Police are having a difficult time investigating because of the rocks being thrown at them, at this point police are not sure if the (shootings are) linked to the protest or not. – Jeff Small	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If we can prevent retaliatory shootings from this particular shooting I think we will have something positive to talk about, my hope is that the law enforcement will be able to do their job and hold the shooters accountable. – Jumaane Williams	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In a sense, the asteroid belt has been an eyewitness to multiple 'drive-by shootings' from the earliest time in solar system history, by reading the traces left behind, we can use asteroid samplesto tell us who did it, when they did it and how they did it. – William Bottke	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The FBI put out a clearly incorrect set of numbers on public shootings shortly before the November election last year. – John Lott	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Since 1976, there have been ups and downs in incidents but there has been no trend upward or downward in mass shootings. – James Alan Fox	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have had a targeted police operation in this area because we have gang crime here. There has been shootings in the past. – Ulla Brehm	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What I have requested here [is] a result of what's going on currently across this country as it relates to police shootings. – Cedric Alexander	Found on CNN 9 years ago

There are sporadic shootings in some areas.

– Sayed Sarwar Hussaini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings, friends of ours, allies of ours -- Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings, friends of ours, allies of ours — Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The shootings will not go away until policies, elected officials change.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I can tell you that I always find it interesting that the reflexive reaction of the left is to say we need more gun laws, criminals don't follow gun laws. Only law-abiding people follow gun laws. And there is just no evidence that these gun laws would prevent these shootings.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We got him ! DPS SWAT team is in custody of the individual suspected of I-10 shootings. Apprehended moments ago.

– Arizona Governor Doug Ducey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After Sandy Hook, and the theater shootings, everybody thought, gosh this is terrible, we have got to do something to keep people that are mentally disturbed, we got to keep them away from guns and having the ability to get guns.

– Vester Lee Flanagan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With police-involved shootings now in this country, we’re very hypercritical of every officer’s actions. But the suspect was armed with a box cutter, the officer used deadly force as a last resort.

– Police Chief David Brown

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a very gun-friendly legislature and the shootings this week will do little to change that.

– Stephen Farnsworth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These shootings have got to stop. I don't know how else to say it.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We take all shootings very seriously. Obviously when you have an attack on a U.S. military facility, then we have to make sure that we have all the information necessary to make an assessment in terms of how this attack took place and what further precautions we can take in the future.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We’re fighting against mass violence, shootings, unemployment, and it is not the right symbol, in terms of what we’re trying to brand the city of Detroit as being.

– David Bullock

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It struck me as odd that other shootings occurred around the same time, i knew that day that I wanted to look into this further.

– Sherry Towers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don't believe he had a serious psychotic break prior to the shootings, he had the capacity to know that the shootings were highly illegal (and) knew beforehand his victims would suffer.

– William Reid

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are never going to reduce the number of police shootings if we don’t begin to accurately track this information.

– Jim Bueermann

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I reviewed the case to the best of my ability and did not find race played a role in the shootings.

– David Shepack

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Police are having a difficult time investigating because of the rocks being thrown at them, at this point police are not sure if the (shootings are) linked to the protest or not.

– Jeff Small

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If we can prevent retaliatory shootings from this particular shooting I think we will have something positive to talk about, my hope is that the law enforcement will be able to do their job and hold the shooters accountable.

– Jumaane Williams

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In a sense, the asteroid belt has been an eyewitness to multiple 'drive-by shootings' from the earliest time in solar system history, by reading the traces left behind, we can use asteroid samplesto tell us who did it, when they did it and how they did it.

– William Bottke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The FBI put out a clearly incorrect set of numbers on public shootings shortly before the November election last year.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Since 1976, there have been ups and downs in incidents but there has been no trend upward or downward in mass shootings.

– James Alan Fox

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have had a targeted police operation in this area because we have gang crime here. There has been shootings in the past.

– Ulla Brehm

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What I have requested here [is] a result of what's going on currently across this country as it relates to police shootings.

– Cedric Alexander

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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