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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
It's assumed that Republicans oppose any restrictions on gun ownership, but in this instance, it's very clear that we that only responsible people should be able to get access to firearms.
Wisconsin's Home-Grown Approach to Community Safety
Wisconsin's Home-Grown Approach to Community Safety
Focused Interruption is a South-Eastern Wisconsin-based non-profit working with and within communities to build relationships and trust at the individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Their programs contribute to a holistic approach to gun violence prevention.
Their four step approach consists of
Encouraging and teaching Peaceful Conflict Resolution
Connecting social service programs with folks who need them most
Building up communities that gun violence threatens to tear apart
Facilitating healing from the trauma and loss that go hand in hand with that violence
Their approach is designed to put an end to gun violence by interrupting the cycles of gun violence in our most impacted communities.
New York City's Blueprint to End Gun Violence
New York City's Blueprint to End Gun Violence
In New York City, their blueprint is similar, but with a focus on law enforcement and fuding additional resources for mental health and medical care.
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