#gun safety
This flowchart is a Michigan school’s *simple* solution to determining if someone open carrying a gun inside the school is a good guy or a bad guy.
We’ve got an even simpler solution: don’t allow open carry in schools!
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VICTORY! Today the Montana chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America applauded the House’s rejection of Senate Bill 143, a dangerous bill that would have forced Montana’s public colleges and universities to allow individuals to carry concealed, loaded handguns onto their campuses.
Leading up to the vote in the House, the Montana chapter of Moms Demand Action hosted the first-ever gun safety advocacy day at the Capitol, which brought together a broad coalition of gun safety advocates who spoke out against SB 143. Similar bills that would have forced colleges and universities to allow guns on campus have already been defeated this year in South Dakota, Wyoming, West Virginia and Virginia.
STATEMENT FROM PAMELA OWEN, A VOLUNTEER WITH THE MONTANA CHAPTER OF MOMS DEMAND ACTION:
“Today our leaders in the House stood up for the safety of all of Montana’s students. Montana’s colleges and universities know what’s best when it comes to protecting our students and educators, and now they can keep making critical public safety decisions that best fit their unique campuses. As a parent, sending a child off to college comes with enough safety concerns. Worrying about whether students in our children’s classes are carrying guns shouldn’t be one of those concerns. We applaud our elected officials in the House for standing on the side of public safety and rejecting this dangerous piece of legislation.”
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President Barack Obama is spot-on here: with rights come responsibilities, and gun ownership is no exception.
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The motivations for suicide are hard to predict, but often it’s only a matter of minutes between the first suicidal thought and the attempt itself.
Suicide is often a convergence of factors leading to a sudden, tragic event. In one study of people who survived a suicide attempt, almost half reported that the whole process, from the first suicidal thought to the final act, took 10 minutes or less …
“What people experience before attempting suicide is a combination of panic, agitation and franticness,” he said. “A desire to escape from unbearable pain and feeling trapped.”
Sometimes,depression isn’t even in the picture. In one study, 60 percent of college students who said they were thinking about ways to kill themselves tested negative for depression.
“There are kids for whom it’s very difficult to predict suicide — there doesn’t seem to be that much that is wrong with them,” said Dr. David Brent, an adolescent psychiatrist who studies suicide at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Brent’s research showed that 40 percent of children younger than 16 who died by suicide did not have a clearly definable psychiatric disorder.
What they did have was a loaded gun in the home.
“If the kids are under 16, the availability of a gun is more important than psychiatric disorder,” Dr. Brent said. “They’re not suicidal one minute, then they are. Or they’re mad and they have a gun available.”
The NRA has a lot to learn from our founding fathers when it comes to guns on university campuses.
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you know our country has a huge problem with gun violence – and the media’s ability to cover it.
This video says it all: Emergency calls reveal how disturbed many people are when they actually encounter open carry gun extremists.
Shocking numbers from Yale School of Medicine: http://medicine.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6625
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Yale School of Medicine: "About 20 children per day in the United States are injured by firearms seriously enough to require hospitalization, and more than 6% of these children die from their injuries.“
We’re tired of the excuses and we’re taking a stand! We will no longer accept shootings by children as tragic "accidents."
We can do better. We MUST do better.
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If we compared gun violence in U.S. cities to the deadliest nations in the world, via Citylab:
- If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.
- Detroit's gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).
- Baltimore’s rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).
- Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).
- Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).
- Atlanta’s rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).
- Cleveland (17.4) has a higher rate than the Dominican Republic (16.3).
- Gun murder in Buffalo (16.5) is similar to Panama (16.2).
- Houston’s rate (12.9) is slightly higher than Ecuador’s (12.7).
- Gun homicide in Chicago (11.6) is similar to Guyana (11.5).
- Phoenix’s rate (10.6) is slightly higher than Mexico (10).
- Los Angeles (9.2) is comparable to the Philippines (8.9).
- Boston rate (6.2) is higher than Nicaragua (5.9).
- New York, where gun murders have declined to just four per 100,000, is still higher than Argentina (3).
- Even the cities with the lowest homicide rates by American standards, like San Jose and Austin, compare to Albania and Cambodia respectively.
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It’s true: we can have the Second Amendment AND common sense gun laws that save lives. Everyone wins! (Unless you’re the gun lobby.)
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“Two years ago, our hearts were broken when 26 beautiful lives were taken from us in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
We will never forget. We will never be silent. And we won’t stop fighting until we fix our broken gun laws.”
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In memory of the 26 lives senselessly taken by gun violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School two years ago today, and for the more than 31,000 deaths caused each year by gun violence:
We will not be silent.
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The daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung, Erica Lafferty, recalls her last day with her mother:
It was a cold Sunday afternoon at the lake house and Chris and I were packing up to go home. Like she did every weekend when we left, Mom followed us outside to say goodbye. Before I hopped into the truck she gave me one of her famous Dawn hugs and a big Mommy kiss.
As I was closing the door I looked at her and told her I love her for the very last time. She took about four steps from the truck and spun around on her tippy toes, opened the truck door and whispered something that I cannot repeat (as to not ruin the oh-so-proper reputation of Dawn Alyson) and laughed her beautiful Dawn laugh… she said “I love you baby” and closed the door.
As we backed down the driveway she stood at the top waving until the truck was out of view. I had no idea that this was going to be the last time that I saw my beautiful Mommy, my best friend in the entire world…
Read Erica Lafferty’s full story here.
Toddler unintentionally shoots, kills Oklahoma basketball player
“Family members at this residence, they were sighting-in a rifle and while they were sighting-in the rifle they were taking a look at the targets. When one of the children that were in that family came up and actually grabbed that rifle being held by one of the adults, and one of the children actually pulled that trigger that resulted in the death of Eric Brown,”
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John Lennon was assassinated 34 years ago today. Over one million Americans have been shot and killed since then.
Imagine a world without gun violence…
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Jordan Davis’ mother truly knows the importance of uniting against the senseless gun violence that takes so many of our precious children.
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The NRA rewrote classic fairy tales so that the protagonists had guns. Critics on Twitter responded with their own #NRAFairyTales, which depicted the bleak reality of gun violence instead.
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All true
The husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert does not carry a concealed weapon. On the contrary, he shows his piece to underage girls. There’s a family man who wears his heart on his sleeve!
What the Second Amendment really says: “A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Isn’t that the U.S. Army these days?
Beto O'Rourke at Governor Abbott’s press conference: “The spirit grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it.”
(William Shakespeare, As You Like it)
I know how we can get rid of the guns. The Second Amendment guarantees the “right to bear arms”, nothing more.
May America take stock this time - without the barrel.
Robb Elementary School: where children get robbed of their life.
Charlton Heston at the NRA conference: “From my cold, dead hands.”
Did the shooter open a bank account on his 18th birthday?
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman:
“I don’t want no teenage queen
I just want my M14.”
