Quotes About Violence

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

Gun violence is a problem that this country should be addressing.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

Those who commit gun crimes and those who enable them should know this: We're coming after you.

If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

If someone fires a gun in a movie, it should always be a big deal. I don't like movies where someone shoots at someone else but they just run away and manage to dodge the bullet. Or people are all firing at each other continuously for 10 minutes.

Ending gun violence isn't political. This is personal.

We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.

I'm always fascinated emotionally in the moment that someone pulls a gun, even a cop. That action - I don't know that I, personally, as a human being, could do it.

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

There's a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don't know. It's very real.

It's the sad truth that gun violence can often be prevented.

Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?

Using a gun is a coward's way to hurt someone.

I've got a scar on my shin from when I got shot in New York when I was 17. I was outside a McDonald's and somebody shot a gun from a car, and the bullet grazed my leg.

I hate guns.

Criminals don't care about guns laws.