July

Make Good Trouble at County Administration Building:

August

National Night Out, Skyline and Spring Valley

Stats, Stories, Solutions – USD panel discussion sponsored by CA Sen. Catherine Blakespear and preview of Flashmob video:

September

Labor Day March at County Administration Building:

Presentation on SMART at monthly general meeting:

Survivors of Suicide Loss walk at Liberty Station:

October

ICE Out of SD protest at Federal Building in downtown San Diego:

No Kings March at County Administration Building:

United Nations Day:

Gala for Tariq Khamisa Foundation:

November

Reception for Manny and Patricia Oliver, producers of one-man play “Guac”

Vista Gun Buyback with SD Sheriff’s Dept.:

 

 

 

2025 Democratic Convention, Escondido:

 

 

Holiday of Hope gala for Mothers with a Message:

 

 

December

UCSD medical students, with SAFE:

 

 

Divine Protection Night with Bishop Cornelius Bowser:

 

 

Encinitas Holiday Parade with Mike Levin

Chula Vista Gun Buyback — collected 138 guns:

 

 

 

January

MLK Parade, San Diego – With coalition member Mothers with a Message and Union of Pan-Asian Communities (UPAC):

Coalition member Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic (SAFE) – Roundtable discussion at UCSD on the intersection of medical care and gun violence prevention:

February

Visit to U.S. Senator Alex Padilla’s San Diego office with Swing Left:

Supporting Firearm Procurement Ordinance at the Board of Supervisors:

Tabling at Festival of Love:

Talk at Point Loma Rotary Club:

March

March 1 general meeting – Heather Ferbert presents on Gun Violence Response Unit in the San Diego City Attorney’s Office:

Presentation to Rancho Bernardo Democrats Club:

Press conference to announce Darshana Patel’s Assembly Bill 237 (criminal to threaten to commit a crime at a daycare, school, university, workplace, house of worship, medical facility, or public venue with reckless disregard for safety) — Darshana Patel, Marni von Wilpert:

Brady summit: Building a Future Without Gun Violence. Juan Avila, Garden Pathways; Keycha Gallon, Treasurer and Project Coordinator, Motivated 2 Help Others, and Founder, Keyz to the Future; Fernando Rejon, Executive Director, Urban Peace Institute:

April

Hands Off! — Protest in downtown San Diego:

Tabling at Peace in the Park:

Walk and Knock in Southeast San Diego:

Brady Advocacy Week (cont’d):

-Assembly Member Boerner’s Office, Ross Tritt, Madeline Chimento

-David Alvarez’s office

-CA State Senator Steve Padilla’s office

May

Clairemont Garden Tour — Nicole Crosby, San Diego City Attorney’s Office; and Kimberly Weinstein:

Cold Case Cruise – Alicia Valenzuela:

June

San Diego County Board of Supervisors meeting — Proclamation honoring Gun Violence Awareness Day 2025:

San Diego County Administration Building illuminated in honor of Wear Orange:

Call to Action — Writing postcards asking California voters to demand action from their congressional representatives:

San Diego Police Department gun buyback — 112 guns collected, including 1 ghost gun and 1 machine gun:

Honoring Bishop Cornelius Bowser of Shaphat Outreach for his work in reducing violence in Southeast San Diego. Bishop Bowser received the Key to the Movement Award from the People’s Association of Justice Advocates (Shane Harris) at Christopher Wilson Memorial Park:

San Diegans for Gun Violence Prevention marched hand-in-hand with coalition member Mothers With a Message, which represents families who’ve lost children to gun violence and also supports Union of Pan Asian Communities-UPAC’s efforts to help such families, at the Martin Luther King, Jr. parade this past Sunday, January 19, 2025. It was a beautiful day of community, celebrating diversity, and promoting social equality and safety for all.

Gun-violence prevention is alive and well in San Diego in 2024, and we have 12 minutes of video to prove it. Have a look at the work you and the rest of our GVP community have been doing month by month, all year long.

January through November

December

Encinitas Holiday Parade with Mike Levin, including Team Enough members Stephen Bishop and Sarah Youssef

Our final event of 2024 was a remembrance for all victims of gun violence on the anniversary of the Sandy Hook mass shooting. In a variation of our traditional vigil, Reverend Kristin Kuriga wove this year’s remembrance into the Sunday service at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego. After the service, Liz and Carlos Muñoz of Jr’s Trauma Care Initiative performed a sage blessing of a shrine honoring dozens of local children who have lost their lives to gun violence.

Thanks for continuing to show that preventing gun violence is important to YOU!

January

The presenter at our January general meeting was Diane Doherty, executive director of Your Safe Place. YSP is a family justice center for victims of domestic violence. It protects its clients by obtaining Domestic Violence and Gun Violence Restraining Orders to remove firearms from dangerous situations. YSP joined our coalition as a member organization this year.

OTTA (Our Time To Act) Gala:

MLK Parade and Festival – Embarcadero, San Diego:

All People’s Celebration:

Supervisor Lawson Remer’s Making Change and Delivering Results event:

February

Press conference to introduce CA Senator Catherine Blakepear’s bill, SB 1002 – a bipartisan bill that addresses the gaps within existing firearm prohibitions for people experiencing mental health crises:

February Monthly meeting with US Attorney for Southern California Tara McGrath and Executive Assistant US Attorney Cindy Cipriani:

Festival of Love, City Heights:

San Diego County Board of Education – Presentation on Gun Violence Prevention by Lori Van Orden and Jessica Heldman, USD:

Spring Season of Peace kickoff press conference:

March

Canvassing in Pacific Beach for Terra Lawson-Remer, San Diego Board of Supervisors:

April

April general meeting with Alain Stephens:

Presentation to Eastlake-Bonita Democrat Club:

May

Suicide Prevention Council 2024 Faith breakfast attended by Paul Conry for SD4GVP:

June

June general meeting – Congressman Scott Peters (CA-50) and Tasreen Kahmisa of Tariq Khamisa Foundation:

San Diego County Board of Supervisors adopts Wear Orange proclamation (driven by Terra Lawson-Remer):

San Diego City Council passes the Ira Sharp Firearm Dealer Accountability Act:

SD4GVP receives Non-Profit of the Year Award from Brian Maienschein in Sacramento ceremony:

Wear Orange Day observed at San Diego County Administration Building:

Wear Orange Day observed at Shaphat Outreach:

San Diego Police Department Wear Orange gun buyback:

Listening session with Sara Jacobs (CA-51):

Lawmakers’ press conference highlighting progress in gun violence prevention in San Diego and calling on Congress to do more: Congressman Scott Peters, County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, City Council Member Marni Von Wilpert, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl:

Postcard writing for candidates who support sensible gun laws:

By the second half of 2023 we had resumed our regular cadence of monthly, in-person meetings after three years of video conferences. We redoubled our efforts to build up Team Enough San Diego, the local, youth-focused arm of Brady United.

July

The Board of Supervisors cast an inconclusive tie vote on accepting the conclusions of a countywide survey on gun violence. We made our disappointment clear at a press conference with Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer. . .

. . . then picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off and conducted another press event celebrating Manny and Patricia Oliver’s “Guacathon,” a cross-country tour in honor of their son, who was killed in the Parkland shooting.

On one side of town we handed out literature on safe storage of firearms to support the Chula Vista Police Department’s gun buyback . . .

. . . while on the other side of town we talked with families trying to take back their community parks from gun violence:

August

Day of Remembrance for victims of gun violence, outside the County Administration Building:

Back-to-school events, to reassure students:

Postcard writing get-together, with the theme of protecting children instead of guns:

September

Walk and Knock in City Heights:

Kickoff event for Terra Lawson-Remer’s re-election to County Board of Supervisors (State Senator Catherine Blakespear in attendance):

Survivors of Suicide Loss walk, Balboa Park:

San Diego County Live Well event – 5K and 1-mile runs:

Gun Violence Reduction Summit at County Board of Supervisors meeting – attended by California Attorney General Rob Bonta:

October

BeSMART for Kids:

San Diego Democratic Convention: SD4GVP volunteer Lenise Andrade; Dr. Darshana Patel, Poway Unified School District School Board President and current candidate for CA State Assembly District 76; SD4GVP Legislative Team volunteer Deanna Niño:

WaveFC women’s soccer game at Snapdragon Stadium:

November

Congressman Mike Levin townhall on gun violence: SD4GVP volunteer Ron Marcus, Moms Demand Action volunteer Mandy Fisher, Congressman Mike Levin, Bishop Cornelius Bowser of Shaphat Outreach, Moms Demand Action volunteer Nikki Faddick:

Student outreach at San Diego High School:

December

Youth-driven 11th-Annual Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence – Mission Hills United Methodist Church:

Quilt in honor of the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, TX: