We owe it to our children to do everything we can to elect Gun Sense Candidates dedicated to ending gun violence — including hundreds of Moms Demand Action volunteers running for office nationwide. Join our final Weekend of Action to get out the vote: Text ELECT to 644-33. etwn.us/4iqvSv2
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More than 500 badass Moms Demand Action volunteers and Everytown leaders have stepped up to run for office in the name of gun safety — and we’re doing everything we can to get them elected! Join us: Text ELECT to 644-33 to help get out the vote!
This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we’re highlighting stories from survivors of domestic gun violence, sharing resources, and discussing evidence-backed solutions that disarm abusers and protect survivors.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides 24/7 confidential assistance. To speak with a trained advocate, visit thehotline.org or text START to 88788.
“The signs were there. Everyone knew he was unstable, but he also had a massive collection of over 30 guns. For me, that’s the worst part of it — knowing that someone this volatile can still have access to a gun.”
This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, help call attention to this preventable crisis by sharing Grace’s #MomentsThatSurvive story:
All the school security in the world will not stop guns from ending up in the wrong hands in the first place.
Disagreements should never escalate into gunfire, but in a country awash in guns, it’s far too common. Our hearts go out to this man, who was just trying to get to his destination.
In the aftermath of a devastating mass shooting, showing up matters. Here are some ways you can support impacted families, donate to trusted local community organizations, and check in long after the headlines fade:
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Kohen Wiley's family deserves justice, and justice requires transparency. We stand with Kohen's family in demanding the release of bodycam footage. Our communities deserve a system where every child's life is valued. Kohen deserved safety from those whose job it is to serve and protect.
Only in America is gun violence so normalized that mass shootings like this one that took place in California over the weekend don’t capture national attention.
A 2-year-old child found a loaded gun in a Virginia daycare administrator’s unzipped fanny pack and put it in their mouth. The daycare has been temporarily closed and the administrator is facing charges.
Gretchen Miller’s primal reaction to learning her child was in danger is hard to listen to, but we must not look away. No mother should be forced to experience this kind of trauma, and we will not relent until this is no longer our reality. Text READY to 644-33 to join us.
“I didn't even know my baby was alive for 4.5 hours.” A ring camera caught the sheer panic a mom experienced after learning there was an active shooter at Silver Rail Elementary School.
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Children are among those wounded after a person opened fire inside Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. Details are still unfolding. Our children and their educators should be able to come home from school without experiencing gun violence. Our hearts break for the Bend community.
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The ATF’s job is to enforce our gun safety laws — not cater to the gun industry. Abandoning a federal law that has helped keep dangerous guns and their accessories out of the wrong hands puts public safety at risk.
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When 3D-printed firearms can be made at home and brought to our schools, it puts us all at risk. It’s the responsibility of adults to keep us safe — not put us in harm’s way.
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A 17-year-old boy in South Carolina is facing charges after a gun he and a 14-year-old friend were “playing with” discharged, shooting the younger boy in the face. One important question not answered: How did this teen gain access to a firearm?
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These are not an isolated tragedies: An intimate partner homicide-suicide happens more than once every day in the US, and in 1 in 3 cases, the perpetrator dies by suicide. This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, learn more about this crisis and what can be done to save lives.
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In Los Angeles, CA, a father shot and killed his two children, ages 4 and 11, before shooting and wounding himself.
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In Marin County, CA, a man shot and killed his wife — former San Francisco Police Department Deputy Chief Ann Mannix — alongside their 25-year-old daughter, before turning the gun on himself.