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Major Milestone: More Than Two Million Students Nationwide Now Attend Schools With Secure Firearm Storage Awareness Policies
Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action, and Be SMART Volunteers Have Urged School Boards Across the Country to Require Schools to Educate Parents About Secure Firearm Storage At Least 5.4 Million Children in 2021 Live in a…
December 14, 2021
Ohio Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Criticize Senate Lawmakers for Passing Dangerous Permitless Carry Bill Out of Committee
Hamilton County Sheriff, Law Enforcement Officers, Student Advocates, Ohio Mayors Alliance Also Testified Against the Legislation The Ohio chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statement…
December 14, 2021
Everytown Joins President Biden’s Call For Gun Safety Action from Congress While Commemorating Nine Year Mark of Sandy Hook Shooting
WASHINGTON — Today, Everytown for Gun Safety and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, released the following statements after President Joe Biden’s call for congressional action on gun safety in a video commemorating the nine…
December 14, 2021
Durham Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 4 Others Wounded; North Carolina Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond
DURHAM, N.C. — The North Carolina chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement after a shooting in Durham left two people dead and four others…
December 13, 2021
Massachusetts Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Applaud Governor Charlie Baker on Signing of Crucial American Rescue Plan Funding Bill, Including $65 Million in Gun Violence Prevention Funding
The Massachusetts chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement applauding Governor Charlie Baker for signing into law H4269, legislation that would utilize $65 million from…
December 13, 2021
1 Killed, 13 Wounded in Drive-By Shooting at Baytown Vigil; Texas Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond
BAYTOWN, Texas — The Texas chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement after a gunman opened fire during a candlelight vigil in Baytown Sunday evening.
December 10, 2021
Governor Northam Announces $27 Million for Gun Violence Prevention Research in Biennial Budget — Virginia Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Applaud Commitment to Gun Safety
The Virginia chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots network, released the following statement after Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced that $27.4 million in his proposed two-year budget will…
December 10, 2021
Florida Student Accused of Planning School Shooting Amid National Increase in Gunfire on School Grounds
Yesterday, Daytona police received reports that a 19-year old student at Florida’s Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University was planning to carry out a mass shooting before winter break. According to Spectrum News, investigators say the student purchased a folding rifle along…
December 10, 2021
Everytown, D.C. Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Applaud Mayor Bowser’s Expansion of City Violence Interruption Resources to Reduce Gun Violence
Everytown for Gun Safety and the Washington, D.C. chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement after Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that D.C.’s Office of…
December 10, 2021
This Weekend Marks Nine Years Since the Shooting at Clackamas Town Center. Since Then, a Grassroots Movement Has Changed the Secure Gun Storage Landscape.
Nearly nine years ago, a 22 year-old gunman shot three people — two fatally — at Clackamas Town Center in Clackamas, Oregon. The shooter used an unsecured rifle. Since the shooting, the state has passed a secure storage law to require…
December 10, 2021
City of Memphis Leads on Prioritizing Gun Safety Ahead of Tennessee 2022 Legislative Session
As yet another deadly year of Tennessee gun violence draws to a close, the City of Memphis today presented a set of 2022 State Government Priorities during the Shelby County legislative delegation meeting, including several key points on improving public…
December 9, 2021
Everytown, Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action to Double Down on 2022 Gun Safety Priorities in Statehouses Amid Tragic Year of Gun Violence Fueled by Gun Lobby’s ‘Guns Everywhere’ Agenda
NEW YORK — Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, and Students Demand Action today announced their gun safety priorities ahead of the upcoming 2022 legislative session, following another tragic year of gun violence and high profile shootings fueled by…
December 8, 2021
Secure storage saves lives. Here’s how Alaska lawmakers can act this upcoming session.
After the tragic shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan last week, Alaska leaders and leaders across the country looked to the gun violence prevention movement to see what can be done to prevent school shootings in the future. Secure…
December 7, 2021
Las Vegas Sun: Ghost guns have no place in America
On Sunday, the Las Vegas Sun published a piece authored by gun violence survivor and Students Demand Action leader, Mia Tretta on the importance of regulating ghost guns and the new law passed last session to regulate ghost…
December 7, 2021
“Charges against the parents of the Michigan school shooter should serve as a example” — Shannon Watts in The Washington Post
Following charges of involuntary manslaughter being made against the parents of the perpetrator of the mass shooting at Oxford High School that left four students dead and seven others wounded, Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, writes in…
December 7, 2021
California Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond to Shooting of Black Transgender Woman in Oakland, California
OAKLAND, Calif. – The California chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statements after Nikai David, a 33-year-old Black transgender woman, was…
December 7, 2021
Atlanta Public Schools Announces Secure Storage Policy, in Wake of Oxford High School Shooting
Atlanta Public Schools Will Work With Nonprofits, Advocates, and Law Enforcement to Promote Secure Gun StorageMoms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers Have Urged School Boards Across the Country, Covering More Than 1.5 Million Students, to Pass Resolutions Requiring…
December 6, 2021
Editorial: The Dangers of Guns at Protests Are Too Big to Ignore: Armed demonstrations threaten public safety — and freedom of speech.
A recent editorial in Bloomberg News highlighted the need to address armed demonstrations and the dangers of the gun lobby’s “guns everywhere” agenda. For years the gun lobby has touted the idea that all that is needed to…
December 6, 2021
Secure storage saves lives. Here’s how New Mexico lawmakers can act this upcoming session.
After the tragic shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan last week and the horrific shooting of Bennie Hargrove in August, New Mexico leaders and leaders across the country looked to the gun violence prevention movement to see what can…
December 6, 2021
Three Questions for the Gun Lobby after the Oxford, MI Mass Shooting
Last week, a Michigan prosecutor announced charges of involuntary manslaughter against the parents of the perpetrator of the mass shooting at Oxford High School that left four students dead and seven others wounded. Reports indicate that the semi automatic…
December 3, 2021
Massachusetts Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Applaud Massachusetts House, Senate on Passage of Major ARPA Funding Bill, Including Millions of Dollars for Gun Violence Prevention
The Massachusetts chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement applauding the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate for passing H4269, a bill that would utilize…
December 3, 2021
Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Respond to Charges Being Brought Against Oxford High Shooter’s Parents
Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of Everytown for Gun Safety’s Grassroots Network, released the following statement after reports that Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald today brought charges of involuntary manslaughter against the parents of the…
December 2, 2021
Everytown Releases Updated Recommendations to Avoid and Respond to School Shootings
Earlier Today, Moms Demand Action, Everytown Hosted Press Call with Michigan Senator Rosemary Bayer Outlining National Solutions to School Gun Violence Following Mass Shooting at Oxford High School Between August 1 and October 31, at Least 89 Instances of…
December 2, 2021
Pennsylvania Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Applaud Governor Tom Wolf on Veto of Dangerous Permitless Carry Bill
The Pennsylvania chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, both part of the Everytown for Gun Safety’s grassroots networks, released the following statement applauding Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf for vetoing a bill that would have allowed for the…
Did you know
Black Americans are nearly twice as likely as white Americans to die from COVID-19 and more than 10 times as likely to die from gun homicide.
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, “Gun Violence and COVID-19 in 2020: A Year of Colliding Crises,” May 7, 2021, https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-and-covid-19-in-2020-a-year-of-colliding-crises/.
