From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): Just in the last two weeks, we’ve seen Black grocery store shoppers in Buffalo, New York, school children and teachers in Uvalde, Texas, and Taiwanese churchgoers in southern California gunned down in horrific … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): Uvalde. Buffalo. York. Philadelphia. Pittsburgh. Right now, the only constant whether it’s 19 kids murdered with an AR-15 in Uvalde or the teacher shot in York is too many elected officials’ responses: more thoughts and prayers. We … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): The most immediate opportunity we have to advance gun violence prevention (GVP) in Harrisburg is to lobby the legislature to fund $80 million in grants for community-based violence prevention programs in the state budget. You can help … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): A major report was just released that paints a clear picture of the origins of gun violence in our communities. This jaw-dropping evidence, compiled and analyzed by researchers and advocates at Brady, identified six gun shops that … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2022-05-03/gun-violence-prevention/pa-prepared-to-carry-out-stricter-ghost-gun-regulations/a78936-1 May 3, 2022 – Emily Scott, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Pennsylvania stands ready to implement a new Biden administration federal rule on ghost-gun regulations at the state level. Ghost guns are unserialized … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): A two-year old shouldn’t have access to a gun. If we agree on nothing else as a society, this should be an easy area of consensus. Yet, according to the General Assembly’s lack of action, it’s no … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): On Tuesday phones lit up with news alerts about another mass shooting. A man had opened fire [1] on a busy Brooklyn train platform crowded with commuters, injuring 10, and with multiple other people hurt from … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): We have huge news to share. President Biden took action today, after months of preparation, to rein in the danger of ghost guns in communities across Pennsylvania and across the nation. Ghost guns, which are easily assembled … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): Outreach and trauma-informed programs are interrupting violence in every part of Pennsylvania right now. But if we don’t continue those efforts, and expand them, the slow work to heal communities and prevent violence will stop. That’s the … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): Unintentional shootings and gun suicides are tearing apart families, endangering children, and are being ignored by too many in political power who could make a difference. As Everytown wrote about just a few months ago, this is … Continued