{"quotes":[{"text":"I reiterate my dedication to advocating for effective preventive strategies to end gun violence once and for all. In the face of the rising tensions and the widespread proliferation of small arms and light weapons, we call on everyone to join us to build conditions that will make world peace more likely. We all know that the road to building peace goes through ending conflicts and silencing the guns.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["conflict-management-training","conflict-resolution","disarmament","dr-widad","dr-widad-akreyi","gun-control","gun-violence","human-rights","humanitarian","kurdish-people","peace","peace-activist","peace-building","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","silence-the-guns","small-arms-and-light-weapons","violence-and-war","violence","weapons","widad-akreyi","world-peace"],"id":71106,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"Take a bunch of teenage boys from the whitest, safest suburb in America and plunk them down in a place where their friends are murdered and they are constantly attacked and threatened, 'writes Leovy in Ghettoside. 'Signal that no one cares, and fail to solve murders. Limit their options for escape. Then see what happens.","author":"Gary Younge","tags":["america","gun-violence"],"id":75059,"author_id":"Gary+Younge"},{"text":"This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["afghanistan-war","agape-love","anguish","casualties-of-war","child-victims-of-war","children-killed-in-war","conflict-resolution","faith","fear","grief","gun-laws","gun-violence","hope","love","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","pain","peace","peace-movement","peacemaking","police-reform","police-shootings","russia-and-ukraine-conflict","spiritual-love","syrian-civil-war","tragedy","unconditional-love","violence","war","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":88606,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["family-relationships","glass-girl","grief","gun-violence","love","meg-kavanagh","school-shooting","sibling-death","teen-fiction","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":120639,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"},{"text":"I think it is a wise person who does not answer the door to uninvited police officers. Who knows what kind of crazy person could be standing there with a loaded gun!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["crazy","crazy-people","crazy","crazy","gun","gun-violence","officer","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-state","policeman","policemen","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise-man","wise-man","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":132592,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you need to. Feel it…It’s not going to make a neat little hole. First - it’ll obliterate your internal organs. Your lung will collapse, feels like drowning…When it finally hits your spine, it’ll blow your central nervous system-…I’m talking. The pain will be unbearable, but you won’t be able to move… A bullet usually travels faster than this, of course. But the dying? It seems like it takes forever. Something, isn’t it? One tiny piece of metal destroys everything. It ripped her insides out… It took her light away. From me. From the world… And now the one person who should be here is gone - and a waste like you gets to live. A tiny piece of metal. Can you feel it now?","author":"Joss Whedon","tags":["anger","buffy-the-vampire-slayer","grief","gun-violence","guns","loss","love","pain","revenge","sadness","vengeance","violence","willow-rosenberg"],"id":141548,"author_id":"Joss+Whedon"},{"text":"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.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["americans","barack-obama","choosing","civic-duty","courage","democratic-national-convention","famous","fear","gun-violence","hope","legacies","making-choices","mitt-romney","options","patriotism","police-reform","police-shootings","political-advocacy","political-awareness","political-philosophy","political-responsibility","politics","presidential-election","presidential-election-campaign","by-aberjhani","republican-national-convention","savannah--aberjhani","social-awareness","social-responsibility","the-future","vision-of-america","voting","xenophobia"],"id":143161,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["democrat","democratic-party","democrats","government","government","gun-violence","guns","mass-shooting","mass-shootings","nra","nra","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","politics","republican","republican-party","republicans","right-to-bear-arms","second-amendment","shooting","shootings","violence","violence-in-society","violence"],"id":146004,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a solution to drug addiction.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["constitution","drug-addiction","gun-control","gun-violence","guns","mass-murder","murder","second-amendment","violence"],"id":158082,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could’ve been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police officers weaving between us with rifles.","author":"Laura Anderson Kurk","tags":["glass-girl","grief","gun-violence","laura-anderson-kurk","love","school-shooting","siblings","teen-fiction","ya-fiction","young-adult-fiction"],"id":161748,"author_id":"Laura+Anderson+Kurk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}