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Arming policy makers, advocates, and the public with facts about gun violence. Home of the "Armed with Reason” substack. armedwithreason.substack.com gvpedia.org
Our colleagues at @everytown.org and @giffords.org have created a new tracker to continually follow ongoing GVP-related lawsuits.
GVPanorama - Gun Industry Accountability Lawsuit Tracker
A new site to follow ongoing gun violence prevention-related lawsuits
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This week in Friday Finds: New Firearm Consumer Data; Apalachee School Shooter Sentenced; SCOTUS GVP Decisions; and more open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
"Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence ambassadors have been busy leading sessions, tabling, and hosting meet-ups at education conferences across the country this summer...." #teachers @aft.org #SafeStorage #schoolshootings #gunviolenceawareness #SchoolSafety @teachersunify.bsky.social
Meeting Educators Where They Are
Teachers Unify expands their reach from summer conferences to the union floor
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"…GVP advocates have increasingly looked to litigation as a way to enforce existing laws and help fight our gun scourge. @everytown.org represented the family in this case that involved a wrongful-death lawsuit against a ghost gun company, Husky Armory LLC."
GVPanorama - Ghost Gun Company Ordered to Pay $100M in Death of Kentucky Teen in Historic Verdict
The verdict is believed to be the largest-ever against a gun dealer
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This week in #FridayFinds Court Strikes Down NJ Assault Weapons Ban; Poverty Effects on Gun Violence; Latest Firearm Mortality Data; and more armedwithreason.substack.com/p/friday-fin...
Monday, July 20th, was the 14th anniversary of the horrific movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. To offer reflection and honor to those lost, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips — founders of the national non-profit, @survivorsempowered.bsky.social — offered this important and loving tribute.
Always Remembered, Always Honored, Always Loved
14 years after the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting
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Check out the latest Regional Wrap- A wrap-up of local gun violence prevention news and stories from across the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
This week in #FridayFinds open.substack.com/pub/armedwit... Federal Appellate Courts Uphold Assault Weapon Bans; Gun Makers Inflate Gun Prices; New Homicide Data; and more
Visit armedwithreason.substack.com for the latest in gun violence prevention research-- Research Rewind: June 2026 edition open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
While gun violence statistics have been encouraging the last few years, summer has traditionally created its own stats-proof surge. #summer #GVP #gunviolenceawareness #CVI #CrimeStatistics
The Dark Side of Summer
As shooting stats have dipped, summer brings its yearly uptick of gun violence
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July is Disability Pride Month. The theme for this year’s celebration is “The World Works Better With Us” — chosen to emphasize the fact that “when people with disabilities are included, respected, and supported, communities work better for everyone.”
Disability Pride Month
This year's theme is "The World Works Better with Us"
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In 2019, artistic producer Michael Cotey created ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence. The program produces plays about gun violence written by teens and sets up performances throughout the country each year. The program is just one example of how people are using theater to examine gun violence.
These Theater Kids Are Shifting the Narrative on Gun Violence
A national program produces plays about gun violence written by teenagers. It's just one example of how people are using theater to bring new light to the issue.
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Every other week, we bring you the Regional Wrap to get you caught up on gun violence prevention news that might be happening right in your town. open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
"Gun violence is the last manifestation of every other social ill, of poverty, of lack of opportunity, lack of health care, lack of jobs, segregation, redlining…. When all those social ills come together, then the result, almost inevitably, is gun violence." @thetrace.org
GVPanorama - They Studied Nearly 14,000 People to See How Eviction Rates Are Linked to Gun Violence
Exploring the association between social capital and firearm violence
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Kristin Song is a mother, activist, attorney, and GVPedia board member. After the tragic death of her son Ethan in 2018, she and her husband Mike created the Ethan Miller Song Foundation.
ICYMI: "You Got Me to Protect Your Family"
A poem from Kristin Song
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"The central issue then is bridging the gap between the academic research and the public debate, and providing a clear and forceful response to disinformation. Pushing out facts is necessary but insufficient; inoculating the public against common myths is also essential."
ICYMI: Interview - Devin Hughes, Author of 'The Myths We Carry'
How to counter the gun lobby in the effort to shape public opinion on gun violence
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Check out our weekly roundup of GVP news open.substack.com/pub/armedwit... This week's headlines include: Supreme Court Strikes Down Gun Limit Law; Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Magazines Report; Safe Storage Research; and more
From our esteemed colleagues at Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social comes this detailed inquiry into why gun violence has been declining nationally, and how many of the reasons arise from the local level. #CrimeStatistics #gunviolenceawareness #SafeCities #GunLaws #GVP #CVI
GVPanorama - What City Leaders Say Is Helping Drive Down Gun Violence in Their Communities
These trends cannot be taken for granted
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Check out the latest Regional Wrap- A wrap-up of local gun violence prevention news and stories from across the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
Public safety is threatened at home and abroad by an unscrupulous gun industry. #ICYMI #PublicSafety #GunLaws #terrorism #mexicanborder #cartels #ATF #FBI #gunindustry
ICYMI: How Weak American Gun Laws Aid and Abet Terrorism
Public safety is threatened at home and abroad by an unscrupulous gun industry
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In today’s #FridayFinds headlines: ASK Day; Gun Violence and Race; SCOTUS decissions; and more open.substack.com/.../armedwit...
“Instead of a stewardship beholden to protecting Americans from any shenanigans of licensed gun makers, importers, and dealers, it is instead loosening regulations and acting as an arm of, not a check on, the gun industry.”
GVPanorama - The ATF: An Agency Captured by the Gun Industry
From safety to sales, the ATF has gone into deregulation overdrive
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"Born as an idea at the Million Mom March on May 14, 2000, ASK Day was organized by Brady: United Against Gun Violence in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics.” @bradyunited.org
ASK Day is June 21
“Is there an unlocked gun where my child plays?”
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We recently stumbled upon another canine calamity where a dog inadvertently fires a gun. In case you missed it, here’s the story, below. #dogs #gunviolenceawareness #SafeStorage #ICYMI #MythBusting
ICYMI: Dog Shoots Person Again, and Again, and Again
Yet another mutt mishap puts paws to the defensive gun use myth
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This piece is from mother, activist, attorney, and co-founder of the Ethan Miller Song Foundation, Kristin Song. Read this poem and more today at armedwithreason.substack.com #EthansLaw #gunviolenceawareness #poetry #survivor #SafeStorage
As a respite from the often daunting barrage of harsh news, Armed With Reason periodically offers poetry to ponder. This piece is from mother, activist, attorney, and co-founder of the Ethan Miller Song Foundation, Kristin Song. #EthansLaw #gunviolenceawareness #poetry #survivor #SafeStorage
"You Got Me to Protect Your Family"
A poem from Kristin Song
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This week in #FridayFinds — a focus on the 10th anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub tragedy that occurred in Orlando, FL, on June 12, 2016. #pulse #HonorThemWithAction armedwithreason.substack.com/p/friday-fin...
How a town once defined by its crime has turned things around. #gunviolenceawareness #CVI @jhucgvs.bsky.social #baltimore #PublicHealth
GVPanorama - A Contagious Peace: Behind Baltimore’s Historic Homicide Reduction
How a town once defined by its crime has turned things around
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In this monthly feature, we list the most up-to-date information as an easy go-to to help fight the disinformation that floods our digital age. open.substack.com/pub/armedwit...
“It was only six years ago that guns became the number one killer of kids in America, surpassing cancer and car crashes. What should be unthinkable has, over time, become inevitable. Gen Z’s humor mirrors that shift.” #gunviolenceawareness #GenZ #comedy #schoolshootings #ICYMI
ICYMI: How Gun Violence Infiltrated Gen Z Humor
Gen Z comedy isn't trivializing the problem, it's revealing it
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