Quote

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.

Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.

I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.

I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.

Every week, we read about horrific tragedies resulting from children who play with firearms and accidentally shoot themselves or their family members.

People are just fascinated by assassinations.

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.

Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.