“Many of you in media understand why too easy access to guns is big part of the problem. Too easy access to mass media infamy following mass murder/suicide is also part of the problem. Research is more than clear at this point. Please do your part. Report responsibly, to inform. Responsible reporting…”— Zeynep Tufekci, twitter.com
“It is so much easier to believe that everything is a conspiracy theory because it implies some sort of order to the world. The fact is, the world is chaos. Sometimes kids get shot. No secret intelligentsia is behind it. We just all have got to do better.”— Jennifer Wright, twitter.com
“Many of you in media understand why too easy access to guns is big part of the problem. Too easy access to mass media infamy following mass murder/suicide is also part of the problem. Research is more than clear at this point. Please do your part. Report responsibly, to inform.”— Zeynep Tufekci, twitter.com
“Mass shootings cause gun stocks to rise. They're making money off tragedy. Are you ok with your reps being bought with that money? Shameful.”— Jessica Chastain, twitter.com
“Stop pointing the finger at other countries, other ethnicities, and other religious groups. Our country’s internal turmoil is self-created. The amount of HATRED and IGNORANCE I see comes from a severe blindness to human compassion and a close-mindedness to education.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“Instead of more thoughts and prayers, I’m going to commit myself to write more and work harder against gun violence.”— Jessica Valenti, twitter.com
“The time for gun control is all the yesterdays where lives were senselessly lost.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“These are not ordinary kids who were bullied into retaliation...These are not ordinary kids who played too many video games. These are not ordinary kids who just wanted to be famous. These are simply not ordinary kids. These are kids with serious psychological problems.”— Peter Langman, usatoday30.usatoday.com
“I don’t want to get into the political argument of the guns and things. But what blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us, and us killing ourselves.”— Jon Stewart, washingtonpost.com
“It's a shame that in 2015 women's rights are still under attack in this manner, and that Planned Parenthood, which first and foremost provides healthcare for female-related issues to women who would otherwise not be able to afford it, is still being targeted in this deadly manner. It's even sadder t…”— Molly Oswaks, teenvogue.com