Persuading your city council to pass a safe storage ordinance
One of these days, it will be your turn. You’ll have figured out that there really is something that ordinary people – like you, like us, like them – can do to prevent gun violence. You’ll have identified the officials on your city council who feel the way you do....
Tipping Point: Santana High School
I live in Santee, California, where on March 5, 2001, a 15-year-old student took an eight-shot, .22-caliber revolver to class at Santana High School. The student opened fire, killing two students and wounding 13 others. Santana showed me that this kind of thing can...
White House Announces New Actions to Reduce Gun Violence
We're relieved to tell you that the Biden-Harris Administration announced on January 25 a series of new executive actions to help promote the safe storage of firearms. The actions implement President Biden’s Executive Order of March 2023, which promoted safe gun...
Tipping Point: My Sandy Hook Quilt
On the morning of December 14, 2012, we were preparing our annual Hanukkah party for thirty neighbors and our family. Standing at the head of our dining room table, I placed the menorah on the blue cloth with the box of candles, the matches and my husband Art’s...
The Empty Spaces that Gun Violence Creates
This period of late October to early November is a particularly harrowing time of mass shooting memories. There have been lessons learned, loopholes closed, gun safety measures taken and opportunities missed. Think of 2017, at Sutherland Springs Church in Texas. Think...
GVP Interview with Therese Hymer
Our own Therese Hymer (shown below at San Diego Board of Supervisors meeting) was interviewed this week on local station KNSJ, 89.1 FM. The hour-long interview covered the wide-ranging package of gun-safety bills passed recently by the California Legislature and...
“There would have been nearly 140,000 fewer firearm-related deaths”
On August 15, California Attorney General Rob Bonta released the first-ever data report from the Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP). The report summarizes gun violence data in California and throughout the U.S. and has the potential to guide policy and strategy...
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June 2 Gun Violence Awareness Day [video]
June 2, 2023 is proclaimed Gun Violence Awareness Day in San Diego County
Here’s What 2 County Supervisors Said “No” To
TL;DR: Important races for county supervisors are in progress right now, with more in 2024. If gun-violence prevention is important to you, then get ready to vote! On Tuesday, July 18, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors heard the Final Report on the Community...
Tipping Point: One Mother’s Poem
Untitled By Kristen Fogle I love picking out your clothes for preschool--Batman or Elmo shirts,short sleeves, cuffs,tidy stripes, retro paisley--but lately I can't decide...Better to dress you in bright colors so the teacher will easily spot youor muted ones so an...
In Memory of a GVP Leader: Ira Sharp
June is known as Gun Violence Prevention Month across the nation. As June comes to a close, we reflect on the life-saving impact of those who dedicate their hearts, minds and energy to the prevention of gun violence. This month we lost a true leader in GVP and a force...
National Safer Communities Summit
It’s not often that you have the chance to attend a national summit on gun-violence prevention (GVP) with the President also in attendance. Of course, it’s a sad commentary that we need a national summit on GVP in the first place. But if we do, it’s heartening to...