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Safety in one's home is an essential need (the most important after food and clothing), and safety when we leave the home is essential.
Concealed Carry
Concealed Carry
Recently passed laws making it easier to legally carry a concealed handgun have made the community violence situation significantly worse. Rather than resulting in more security/safer street (as proponents claimed it would), they've made them more dangerous.
Background Checks
Background Checks
The vast majority of Americans support requiring background checks whenever a firearm changes ownership. This includes between family members (with certain exceptions) and at gun-shows. Background checks have been required for retail gun purchases since the late 1990's, however gun shows and certain other individual-to-individual transfers can result in someone obtaining a weapon when they shouldn't.
Stopping Community/City-centered Gun Violence
Stopping Community/City-centered Gun Violence
Many communities are terrorized by gun violence—we typically think and talk about big cities like New York or Chicago, but they've made great strides in reducing gun violence through community-focused efforts. We should take the lessons they've learned and implement the successful programs more widely in all of our communities.
Lessons learned:
Schools need to be safe places where all children are included and can learn. Suspending or even imprisoning students for minor infractions makes them much more likely to end up graduating to worse outcomes down the road.
Giving kids and community-members something to do that is free- or low-expense, like community athletics programs, educational activities, job training, can give them opportunities that can divert them from other, more violent paths.
Black and Brown Kids in More Danger
Black and Brown Kids in More Danger
Through a number of factors, black and brown children face higher rates of gun violence where they live. This makes it even harder for them to achieve success, when their safety is threatened.
Republicans Favor Background Checks
Republicans Favor Background Checks
Typically, we think of Republicans as opposing restrictions on gun ownership, but in this instance, we all agree that only responsible people should own guns.
New York City's Blueprint to End Gun Violence
New York City's Blueprint to End Gun Violence
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