(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org (June 26, 2010, New York) – The University of Colorado (CU) Board of Regents voted yesterday to appeal its campus gun ban to the State Supreme Court. In April of [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus). Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726,andy@gunfreekids.org, Scott Vogel, 773-329-5589, scott@supgv.org 154 Individual Colleges and Universities In 33 States Now Part of Effort to Keep Guns Off College Campuses (June 10, 2010, New York) – The Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona, [...]
State Advocates Update Heeding God’s Call: Pennsylvania Church Members Hold Vigil On Good Friday Protesting Gun Violence — Also See Bishop Peggy Johnson’s Reflections On Vigil: Many of our pastors bury young people on a regular basis who have died from gun violence. It is just too easy to do nothing and in doing so…it [...]
(People pause at a memorial for victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg, Va. Friday marks the third anniversary of the shootings, where 32 people plus the shooter died. Jeanna Duerscherl/The Roanoke Times/AP). On April 16th, the Christian Science Monitor quoted Andy Pelosi, Director of the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, about [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from Protect Minnesota, a campaign by Citizens for a Safer Minnesota). For Immediate Release: April 16, 2010 Contact: Joan Peterson, Protect Minnesota, (218) 428-6570 Heather Martens, Executive Director, Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, csm@endgunviolence.com (St. Paul, MN) – Three years after the horrific shooting tragedy at [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Johnson, johnwjohnson@mchsi.com For Immediate Release (Feb. 15, 2010, CROTON FALLS, NY) – Amy Bishop, a mother of four and a Harvard-educated biologist, used a handgun to fatally shoot three fellow biology professors [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard, (312) 341-0939, tmannard@ichv.org Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Remembers the Victims, Survivors and Families Affected By Valentine’s Day Shooting Rampage that Killed 5 Students and Wounded 16; Advocates Call for Renewed Effort to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following “Insights Column” from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column by Garrett Evans Garrett Evans was wounded and survived the massacre at Virginia Tech University in 2007. He later graduated from the university and now lives in Chicago, where he frequently speaks about gun violence to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 CONTACT: Mandy Wimmer, Communications Associate, 202-822-8200 x110, mwimmer@vpc.org At Least 51 Innocent People Have Been Killed in Recent Mass Shootings Involving Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Washington, DC–Christopher Bryan Speight, the 39-year-old man who allegedly [...]
The New York Times wrote an editorial on Jan. 18th chastising America’s political leaders, including President Obama, for failing to stand-up to the gun lobby and pass an effective ban on semi-automatic assault weapons. The result of this “political cowardice” is that criminals are arming themselves with more lethal and powerful weapons, including semi-automatic military-style [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Johnson, 319-389-7382, johnwjohnson@mchsi.com Bills Fail In Michigan and 11 Other States in 2009. Colorado State University Bans Guns On Campus In December; Momentum Builds To Protect Universities and Student Safety [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest commentary from John Woods, an advocate and a leader of Students for Gun-Free Schools). I am a representative in Student Government at The University of Texas at Austin. I’m also uniquely positioned to discuss the issue of firearms and classrooms as an alumnus of Virginia Tech: I [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from our partners, the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). (Over 90 colleges, universities and associations in 23 states have signed the resolution to keep guns off college campuses). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Johnson, 319-389-7382, johnwjohnson@mchsi.com (December 4, 2009, New York) [...]
(Over 90 colleges, universities and associations in 23 states have signed the resolution to keep guns off college campuses). According to a breaking AP news brief on Dec. 4th: DENVER — Colorado State University’s Board of Governors has voted to ban all guns on campus, falling in line with nearly every major college nationwide in [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from the Campaign To Keep Guns Off Campus, Freedom States Alliance, Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence, and Students For Gun-Free Schools). For Immediate Release Monday, October 19, 2009 Contacts: Andy Pelosi, Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus and GunFreeKids.org, 914-629-6726 Peter Hamm, Brady Campaign [...]
From the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort: On Aug. 7th, Fox Channel 11 interviewed Jeri Bonavia, Executive Director of Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, in response to the disturbing revelations that a Green Bay gun dealer, Eric Thompson, enabled and armed yet another rampage killer for the third time since April 2007. Eric Thompson’s company, TGSCOM Inc., sold a [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort). For Immediate Release Friday, August 7, 2009 Contact: Peter Hamm, 202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org Jeri Bonavia, Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, 414-351-9283, jmbwave@aol.com Washington, D.C. – Eric Thompson, the arms dealer from [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest commentaryfrom Andrew Goddard, a Virginia gun violence prevention advocate whose son was shot and wounded during the Virginia Tech tragedy). Sen. Thune’s Amendment 1618 to the Defense Authorization Bill (S. 1390): To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to allow citizens who have concealed [...]
(See the Wall Street Journal’s July 8th report, An Uphill Fight for the Right to Carry Guns on Campus). PRESS RELEASE Students for Gun-Free Schools Joined By: Freedom States Alliance Gun Free Kids.org Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence Protest Easy Guns.com Coalition To Stop Gun Violence For Immediate Release Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Contacts: [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Woods 703-801-2625, john.o.woods@gmail.com Marsha McCartney 214-802-6053 Campaign To Keep Guns Off Campus Shows Strong Momentum As Over 90 Universities Oppose Gun Lobby’s Radical Agenda (Austin, TX, June 2, 2009) [...]
(We are pleased to post the following statement from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, andy@gunfreekids.org CROTON FALLS, NY, May 21st – Seven Louisiana state universities have signed resolutions opposing legislation to permit the carrying of loaded guns on college campuses: Grambling State University, Louisiana Tech University, NcNeese [...]
(We are pleased to post the following statement from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Woods 703-801-2625, john.o.woods@gmail.com Marsha McCartney 214-802-6053 Gun Lobby’s Dangerous Legislation Now Moves to House; Advocates Call for Leadership and Serious Efforts to Keep Guns Off Campus (Austin, TX, May 20, [...]
The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, Students For Gun-Free Schools, and the North Texas Brady Campaign held a major rally in Austin, Texas on the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech to protest state legislation to permit students to carry guns on campuses at public universities. Watch this ABC News video, and see the [...]
(Image from Stop Gun Violence, based in Massachusetts). [The following press statement was released by U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Jack Reed (RI), and Dianne Feinstein (CA). See fact sheet below]. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 21, 2009 CONTACT: Lautenberg Press Office (202) 224-3224 Reed Press Office (202) 224-4642 Feinstein Press Office (202) 224-3841 WASHINGTON, [...]
Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center wrote the following op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday, Apr. 19th.
(Photo by George Kochaniec Jr., Rocky Mountain News: Grief overcomes Columbine High School students Jessica Holliday, left, and Diwana Perez moments after they fled the school during a violent rampage by two fellow students April 20, 1999). Press Release Contact: Scott Vogel, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org On 10-Year Anniversary of Columbine School Massacre, Advocates Call for Renewed National [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest editorial from Cathie Whittenburg, Executive Director of the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence). A driver’s license teaches road safety, vehicle inspections keep dangerous cars off the roads, speed limits safely control the movement of cars. Consumer product safety standards work to ensure that our food [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, Students For Gun Free Schools, and the North Texas Brady Campaign). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org Public University Officials “Gagged†From Speaking Out; Parents Threaten Boycott of Texas Public Universities if Legislation Passes (Austin, [...]
Arming students is ineffective at stopping a mass shooting. On Friday, April 10th, ABC News’ 20/20 investigative report demonstrated conclusively, through repeated tests, that armed students could not stop a rampage shooting even after being clued into the experiments. A real-life encounter would be even more surprising, disorienting and virtually impossible for armed students to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, a project from our partners at GunFreeKids.org). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726 andy@gunfreekids.org www.GunFreeKids.org Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus asks college and university presidents to band together to fight gun lobby’s agenda to push guns [...]
The New York Times wrote a lacerating editorial on Sunday, February 8th, criticizing Virginia’s state senators for failing to pass the most common sense of proposals — legislation to require background checks on weapons bought at gun shows. This sensible and life-saving bill sought to prevent another Virginia Tech type massacre. But callous and cowardly [...]
We are pleased to post the second part of our interview with Joseph Lieberman, author of “School Shootings: What Every Parent and Educator Needs To Know To Protect Our Children,†(Citadel Press, Sept., 2008). Read Part I here. The interview was conducted by Scott Vogel, Communications Director for the Freedom States Alliance. Order your copy [...]
AlterNet has a must-read article by Liliana Segura, posted on December 10th, about the gun lobby’s insane agenda to arm college students with hidden and loaded handguns on campuses: “The NRA and Co. have pushed campaigns to allow concealed-weapons permits on college campuses in 15 states this year and failed in all of them.” (This [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest column from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column by Jennifer Bishop, National Program Director for Victims and Survivors for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. My sister Nancy was 25 and my brother-in-law Richard was 28. Nancy was pregnant [...]
According to a March 25th Associated Press story: Families of those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings have until March 31 to say whether they’ll accept a settlement that would include $100,000 each and the chance to question the governor and university officials about the shooting, a victim’s relative said. Families of the 32 killed [...]
The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot: Virginia Takes Center Stage in Gun Debate: Americans clash over guns now more than ever. And nowhere is that conflict at a higher pitch than in Virginia — where the specter of the worst shooting in modern U.S. history hangs over Virginia Tech’s campus. The killings in April in Blacksburg thrust a [...]
We came across this extraordinary op-ed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution by Michael Bishop, whose son Jamie was murdered during the VA Tech massacre. It’s worth quoting at length. At 9:40 a.m. on Monday, April 16, 2007, my wife’s cousin, Lee Ellis, telephoned. Check the news, he advised. Something was happening at Virginia Tech, where [...]
It’s a familiar refrain by now. A horrible gun tragedy occurs and the gun lobby adopts a “just say no†strategy to any efforts undertaken to curb gun violence. So it’s no surprise that pro-gun lobby legislators in Virginia are already ruling out any tightening of gun laws to help protect the citizens and students [...]
A remarkable gun violence prevention organization which GunGuys has covered extensively, ProtestEasyGuns.com, submitted a question to the CNN YouTube GOP presidential debate although the question was not aired. The question proposed by Abby Spangler, who heads Protest Easy Guns, asked what the republican presidential candidates planned to do, if elected, to keep guns out of [...]
Every time that there is a gun massacre in the United States, there is hand wringing for awhile – and then people forget about the need to change public policy and our gun culture as other issues emerge. So it is worthy of note that more than six months after the Virginia Tech shootings that [...]
The NRA is furious that a local newspaper in Virginia, The Roanoke Times, changed its advertising policy to no longer accept ads from licensed gun dealers. “The Roanoke Times has amended their policy after the Virginia Tech massacre. It was initiated in the advertising department to be more in line with our editorial stance and [...]
Although bitter rivals in collegiate sports, students at the University of Virginia (UVA) are staging a “Lie-In” on the six month anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre to honor the victims and survivors of the April 16th attack that killed 33 students and professors including the shooter. According to “THE HOOK”, a weekly paper in [...]
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