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The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions will continue to bring a public health lens to reduce gun violence in the U.S., focusing on research while expanding evidence-based advocacy for effective and equitable policies.

Gun violence prevention advocates at the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence celebrated Colorado General Assembly passage of the Vote Without Fear Act yesterday, legislation that would prohibit a person from openly carrying a firearm within any polling location or central count facility, or within 100 feet of a ballot drop box or any building in which a polling location or central count facility is located. 

Today, gun violence prevention advocates at the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence celebrated Congressional passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization Act of 2022 within the omnibus package, landmark legislation that will expand services for sexual assault survivors, especially for Black and minoritized communities disproportionately impacted by intimate partner violence-related homicide. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2022  MEDIA CONTACT: Adam Peck, West End Strategy Team apeck@westendstrategy.com, 202-531-6408 The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence Welcomes Historic Supreme Court Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson WASHINGTON — The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence today welcomed President Biden’s historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the …

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Gun violence prevention groups have developed a new tool to help ensure solutions to gun violence are centered in equity.

Meaningfully addressing gun violence requires equitable solutions that center the lived experiences of impacted communities.

Two years after being enacted, Colorado’s law establishing Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) has been a life-saving tool to reduce the public health epidemic of gun violence in Colorado.

Fulfilling Dr. King’s dream for a better America requires bold and resolute action to protect communities of color from violence and oppression.

The insurrection at the Capitol last January 6th was the loudest expression of a continuing effort by armed insurrectionists to upend government policy through political violence and intimidation.

Gun deaths in the U.S. reached the highest level ever recorded in 2020, claiming the lives of more than 45,000 Americans, according to newly-released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).