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It's not to say that the gruesome crimes have not occurred, I just question why they're being highlighted now, it's troubling. Gang crime is always on people's minds, brutal crimes are always on people's minds, why here, why now, and why attribute it to immigration? – Jorje Leap	Found on CNN 7 years ago
There was a gruesome statement he made about wanting to cut someone’s head off and kill two people with one bullet, and he planned to shoot the police, he did not have a firearm with him and did n’t seem to have a lot of experience with firearms because he thought he could kill two people with one bullet. He reminded himself in the list to raise the gun slowly. He scripted everything out in chronological order. – Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We know that in the application of the death penalty we've had recent cases, by any standard, it has not been swift and painless but rather gruesome and clumsy. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The gruesome harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood will not be allowed in Texas and the barbaric practice must be brought to an end. – Governor Greg Abbott	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I initially thought it was a (tire) blow out. The duck boat then hit another car with a roof rack then went head on into the oncoming tour bus, the scene was pretty gruesome ... There were people in shock. – Jesse Christenson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Mediterranean becomes a mass grave, gruesome scenes play out at borders, there is mutual blame - and those in greatest need, seeking our protection, are left without help. – Martin Schulz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The current refugee crisis shows what happens when there is less Europe, the Mediterranean becomes a mass grave, gruesome scenes play out at borders, there is mutual blame - and those in greatest need, seeking our protection, are left without help. – Martin Schulz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This mass burial, so different to the other individual burials found in the Bedlam cemetery, is very likely a reaction to a catastrophic event, only closer analysis will tell if this is a plague pit from the Great Plague in 1665, but we hope this gruesome but exciting find will tell us more about one of London's most notorious killers. – Jay Carver	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Politicians get to say, 'We have the death penalty, look at all the people we have on death row,' but the delays allow them to spare the public from the gruesome act of an execution. – Paula Mitchell	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Today's video of a Planned Parenthood official discussing the systematic harvesting and trafficking of human body parts is shocking and gruesome. – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal	Found on CNN 8 years ago
As soon as it stopped I looked up and looked around me and it was extremely gruesome, honestly, everybody there, we grabbed everybody out and helped as best we could. – Chloe Jakubowski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
While the international community has offered help with the investigation, the Bangladeshi government has failed to mention a word about Avijit’s gruesome murder since the day it occurred, this turning of a blind eye feeds both the public’s sense of cynicism and the terrorists’ sense of invincibility. – Rafida Bonya Ahmed	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The more gruesome the executions are, the more attention they get, when President Obama responds to each of their killing videos ... that gives them the feeling of being a powerful political actor that legitimate actors have to deal with. – Brigitte Nacos	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Personally, I've been on this job 27 years and it's one of the more gruesome scenes I've seen, a lot of cities in this country are struggling with the mentally ill. – Utica Police Chief Mark Williams	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Like all powerful tools, it can be used for good and evil, it can be used by good people and bad people, when you look at the Web you see humanity connected. Humanity has got some wonderful parts and some gruesome parts. You can't design an Internet that will suddenly turn everybody into saints. What you can do is design an Internet that is open. – Tim Berners-Lee	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It's not to say that the gruesome crimes have not occurred, I just question why they're being highlighted now, it's troubling. Gang crime is always on people's minds, brutal crimes are always on people's minds, why here, why now, and why attribute it to immigration?

– Jorje Leap

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There was a gruesome statement he made about wanting to cut someone’s head off and kill two people with one bullet, and he planned to shoot the police, he did not have a firearm with him and did n’t seem to have a lot of experience with firearms because he thought he could kill two people with one bullet. He reminded himself in the list to raise the gun slowly. He scripted everything out in chronological order.

– Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We know that in the application of the death penalty we've had recent cases, by any standard, it has not been swift and painless but rather gruesome and clumsy.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The gruesome harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood will not be allowed in Texas and the barbaric practice must be brought to an end.

– Governor Greg Abbott

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I initially thought it was a (tire) blow out. The duck boat then hit another car with a roof rack then went head on into the oncoming tour bus, the scene was pretty gruesome ... There were people in shock.

– Jesse Christenson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Mediterranean becomes a mass grave, gruesome scenes play out at borders, there is mutual blame - and those in greatest need, seeking our protection, are left without help.

– Martin Schulz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The current refugee crisis shows what happens when there is less Europe, the Mediterranean becomes a mass grave, gruesome scenes play out at borders, there is mutual blame - and those in greatest need, seeking our protection, are left without help.

– Martin Schulz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This mass burial, so different to the other individual burials found in the Bedlam cemetery, is very likely a reaction to a catastrophic event, only closer analysis will tell if this is a plague pit from the Great Plague in 1665, but we hope this gruesome but exciting find will tell us more about one of London's most notorious killers.

– Jay Carver

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Politicians get to say, 'We have the death penalty, look at all the people we have on death row,' but the delays allow them to spare the public from the gruesome act of an execution.

– Paula Mitchell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Today's video of a Planned Parenthood official discussing the systematic harvesting and trafficking of human body parts is shocking and gruesome.

– Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As soon as it stopped I looked up and looked around me and it was extremely gruesome, honestly, everybody there, we grabbed everybody out and helped as best we could.

– Chloe Jakubowski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While the international community has offered help with the investigation, the Bangladeshi government has failed to mention a word about Avijit’s gruesome murder since the day it occurred, this turning of a blind eye feeds both the public’s sense of cynicism and the terrorists’ sense of invincibility.

– Rafida Bonya Ahmed

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The more gruesome the executions are, the more attention they get, when President Obama responds to each of their killing videos ... that gives them the feeling of being a powerful political actor that legitimate actors have to deal with.

– Brigitte Nacos

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Personally, I've been on this job 27 years and it's one of the more gruesome scenes I've seen, a lot of cities in this country are struggling with the mentally ill.

– Utica Police Chief Mark Williams

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Like all powerful tools, it can be used for good and evil, it can be used by good people and bad people, when you look at the Web you see humanity connected. Humanity has got some wonderful parts and some gruesome parts. You can't design an Internet that will suddenly turn everybody into saints. What you can do is design an Internet that is open.

– Tim Berners-Lee

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.

– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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