Tag: gun control

“This was an absolutely preventable act of violence.”

As experts on firearm violence and firearm injury prevention, we know that active shooter events within school settings in the U.S. have increased substantially in the years running up to the pandemic.

“You’re going to see another round of ‘we can’t do anything yet, there was a tragedy’ hand-wringing, but we must end gun violence now.”

There have been 578 mass shootings so far this year, this is already significantly above the 417 mass shootings recorded in the whole of 2019.

The state should be permitted to disarm its citizens to the extent it judges necessary to protect its own strength to protect its society.

"There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada."

"Gun retailers are not essential businesses and should not remain open during this pandemic."

Private and individual donors—and recently a few states—have been stepping into a federal funding void to finance gun violence research.

Will the American people allow these un-American entities to twist and bend the meaning of the Second Amendment so that it outweighs the critical need to significantly reduce the incidence of mass shootings?

Since the murder of his son Joaquin in the Parkland shooting, Manuel Oliver has been tackling the gun violence epidemic through “nonviolent creative confrontation.”