Gun Violence Quotes

“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”
― Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance

“This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns -- or the one we live in now? If every gun owner truly feared for their life and liberty, the answer would be obvious. But it's not about life and liberty. It's all about the sheer hard-on of owning a gun.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

“To all my fellow Americans who simply insist on hangin' on to those guns ... Two things: 1) Enjoy 'em! 2) Please keep them hidden in a safe, secure place where the young 'uns can't get at 'em (I'd suggest the same place you keep the textbooks on evolution and global warming).”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“If guns don't kill people, why do mass killers arm themselves with guns?”
― DaShanne Stokes

“We should change the name of AR-15s to 'Marco Rubio' because they are so easy to buy”
― sarah chadwick

“She was familiar with a certain type of American crazy. Gun crazy was normal to her, shooting-kids-at-school or putting-on-a-Joker-mask-and-mowing-people-down-in-a-mall or just plain murdering-your-mom-at-breakfast crazy, Second Amendment crazy, that was just the everyday crazy that kept going down and there was nothing you could do about it if you loved freedom; and she understood knife crazy from her younger days in the Bronx, and the knockout-game type of crazy that persuaded young black kids it was cool to punch Jews in the face. She could comprehend drug crazy and politician crazy and Westboro Baptist Church crazy and Trump crazy because those things, they were the American way, but this new crazy was different. It felt 9/11 crazy: foreign, evil.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“So when the Russians got the Germans in their U-shaped ambush, which is the deadliest of all ambushes of the ground forces, the Russian commander said to his men, “Remember what they did to our people, and the German’s sperm inside our woman without their permission. When we get inside, shoot anything that moves.“

~ The Jackass in The Road.”
― Stephen Deck, Land of the Story Tellers: 24 Stories and 7 Poems

“Military is Legal Terrorism
(Ceasefire Sonnet)

Any planet that confuses guns
with gallantry is a planet of apes.
Prioritizing military over education,
we only build a world full of terrorists.

Military is just legal terrorism,
To fathom this you gotta be human.
What do monkeys know of peace and love,
When guns are their emblem of patriotism!

We don't need civilian disarmament,
We need absolute universal disarmament.
Only a worldwide ban on firearms production,
Can facilitate a paradigm of peaceful coexistence.

Let's see which nation has the heart and backbone,
To legislate absolute ban on firearms manufacture!
Let's see who are the first civilized people,
Let's see which nation is the first peacemaker!

What's the point of one ceasefire,
Let's pull the plug on all war.
Let's disband all military, and siphon
those funds to housing, education and healthcare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“What do monkeys know of peace and love, when guns are their emblem of patriotism!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Guns Are Viagra (Sonnet 1262)

Indifference does more damage than inhumanity,
For animals can't be expected to be human.
Humans are human when they are accountable,
Passive spectators are worse than inhuman.

Silence of the peacelovers is more damaging
than violence of the warmongers.
Till the very thought of guns makes you sick,
you are only playing make believe peacekeepers.

Guns are just viagra for the impotent,
Bullets are but crutches for centipedes.
When there's no substance in mind and spine,
Monkeys tend to cower behind semiautomatics.

More backward a country,
more its fascination with guns and bombs.
That's why you cannot imagine a hero,
without a gun in their hands.

Real heroes don't carry guns,
Real heroes don't wear capes.
Wearing a smile, carrying a spine,
Real heroes work to rescue peace,
from the clutches of states.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Guns are just viagra for the impotent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“If history comes as a blow to your heritage, then by all means, live in your bubble - but do so as a prehistoric ape disconnected from the civilizing world. You cannot call yourself a civilized human and at the same time refuse to acknowledge human suffering. Your uncivilization may be your prerogative, but before you turn that uncivilization into the norm, you shall find a hundred MLKs, Baldwins, Mayas and Naskars standing as obstacle to your insanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“If America does not get rid of her guns, her guns will get rid of her. Where there are gunners, there are goners.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“When you raise terrorists, you are bound to have terrorism - most of which is democratically glorified as patriotism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“people don’t just “snap.” There is a process as observable, and often as predictable, as water coming to a boil.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“Lowest form of animal is the human with a gun.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“We must confront the challenges of gun violence with honesty, creativity, and a commitment to meaningful change. (Unloading the Gun Laws)”
― Carlos Wallace

“Accountability-driven frameworks can revolutionize how we manage firearms, ensuring rights coexist with safety. (Unloading the Gun Laws)”
― Carlos Wallace

“I wonder if you feel it less, with guns. If so many people are killed with so little effort, is it easier to pretend they aren't lives? That everything is fine? It's different, I imagine, from seeing flattened forms like blood ghosts on the sand or hearing the screams in the streets during the parade. No, killing should take longer than a heartbeat. Murder should be unignorable, always.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“She was right to be cautious about coming to a place like this, I know. These days, the danger of just being alive and in public is practically as American as fireworks on the Fourth or apple pie or voter suppression. But this. This is what it's all about. You take your chances going to the movies or out to eat or to a concert because this is what it feels like to be alive.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“Feel free to argue with the man with a gun. But make absolutely sure there are no bullets in it.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“As injustice is being served, Chicago continues to see increases in shootings, proving even if to elect “the right” person, any promises to curb violence would not be accomplished”
― Alex Mel