CeasefireUSA: The GVP Report - April 29, 2014
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 Campaign to Unload and States United to Prevent Gun Violence launch a new initiative to defund gun manufacturers: Unload Your 401K. The message: "You might be invested in gun companies and not even realize it." See the powerful video here and then go to the website to look up your 401K.
► 'Smart' Firearms Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby. Belinda Padilla was targeted after trying to market and sell a 'smart' .22-caliber handgun. Gun enthusiasts posted her cellphone number and pictures of her address online.
►Republicans Say No to CDC Gun Violence Research. The chair of the appropriations subcommittee that sets CDC funding said he would oppose President Obama's proposal for $10 million in CDC gun research funding.
► Gun Checks Miss Millions of Fugitives. USA Today investigative report finds that police departments across the country routinely fail to put the names of people on the run from the law into a national database.
► American Journal of Public Health, Kate Prickett et al, State Firearms Laws, Firearm Ownership and Safety Practices Among Families of Preschool-Aged Children finds that safe gun storage behavior and Child Access Prevention laws are most effective in states that have strong firearm legislation overall.
► Pawnshop That Sold Gun in Cop Killing Agrees to Report More On Sales The family of a slain Chicago policeman wins concessions in a lawsuit against the pawn shop. Authorities hope the new requirements will help curb similar illegal gun deals.
► Contractor Says Gunfire May Be Four Times As Common As Reported ShotSpotter, which recognizes the sound of gunfire and alerts police, analyzed its data from 48 cities and found people call 911 to report shots fired in fewer than 1 in 5 events where the system confirmed the discharging of a gun.
►Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed into law a bill that establishes a clear, accountable process for seizing guns from domestic abusers.
► Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would allow concealed guns in government buildings and college campuses and a bill that would punish towns for enacting gun laws more strict than state law.
► Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law legislation that nullifies city gun restrictions and legalizes the open carry of firearms across the state.
► Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law a bill that allows firearms to be carried into schools, bars, churches and government buildings and also bars law enforcement from checking gun permits, which some say nullifies the licensing process.
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 The Colbert Report recaps the news about Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who refused to pay federal grazing fees, and the armed gun enthusiasts from across the country who rushed to his side.
► E.J. Dionne, The Gun Supremacists' Folly. Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. In the meantime, the nation's unarmed majority might ponder how badly we have failed in asserting our own rights.
► Meet the Doctor Who Gave $1 Million of His Own Money to Keep His Gun Research Going. Since Congress pressured the CDC to stop funding research on gun violence, Dr. Garen Wintemute, U.C. Davis, has donated his own money to keep his research going.
► Editorial, St. Louis, Missouri, Post-Dispatch, The Neo-Nazi and the Second Amendment Preservation Act. Every single day the Missouri Legislature spends debating a bill that makes it harder for law enforcement officials to do their jobs is a day they spend making it easier for criminals to do theirs.
► Jordan Mathews, U. of Colorado Daily Camera, 15 Years After Columbine: Growing Up in "Just-Another-Shooting" America. I did not really realize the impact living in a gun culture has had on my American peers until I went to study abroad in Spain. I believe the country that we call home has failed my entire generation.
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 A new documentary, Gunland, takes an in depth look at Black America and gun violence. Between 1963 and 2010, nearly 60,000 black children and teenagers were killed by guns. Gunland tells these victims' stories.
► Media Matters details Who's Who at the NRA Annual Meeting. Part of the focus at the convention is the NRA's push for a nationwide concealed weapons permit.
► Investigative report reveals that David Kopel, national authority on gun policy issues, and his Independence Institute have received over $1.42 million including about $175,000 a year over eight years from the NRA.
► Corporate Accountability International and Gun Truth Project new report, Bang For Their Buck, How Seven-Figure Donations from Clayton Williams Energy Are Driving the NRA to Turn its Back on Sportsmen.
► Pennsylvania gun rights group, Firearms Owners Against Crime, intimidates the state gun violence prevention group CeasefirePA.
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 ► Coalition to Stop Gun Violence had a mobile billboard circling this weekend's NRA Convention in Indianapolis. Moms Demand Action held a rally with mothers and gun violence survivors.
► Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence held a press conference on the eve of the NRA convention to draw attention to the rise in gun homicides in Indianapolis.
 ► Watch the new music video from Generation Progress, #fight4th33 with musician Jon Batiste.
► Toby Hoover, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, op-ed, Promoting Weapons Everywhere Fosters Culture of Fear. The law gave a select group of people the right to carry their loaded weapons in public at the expense of the 95 percent of us that choose not to have guns everywhere.
► Illinois Council Against Gun Violence and Moms Demand Action were panelists on a gun safety forum hosted by U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider and Illinois state Rep. Scott Drury.
► CeasefirePA released grades for each of the Pennsylvania lieutenant gubernatorial candidates on their views pertaining to gun violence.
► Ralph Fascitelli, Washington Ceasefire, raises concerns that the gun show in the Tacoma Dome allows private sellers to sell guns with no background checks run on the purchasers.
► Leah Gunn Barrett, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, New York Times letter, Ban on Assault Weapons.
► Colorado Ceasefire host a memorial to honor the victims of Columbine on the 15th anniversary of the mass shooting.
► Michael Bloomberg plans to spend $50 million this year to fight gun violence. The plan calls for a restructuring of the gun violence prevention groups he funds, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action. They will be brought together as Everytown for Gun Safety.
 ► Register today for the Brady Campaign's 2014 National Summit to Bring It Home! June 9-10 in Washington, D.C.
32-year-old Leonore Draper, of Chicago, Illinois, was on her way home from an anti-violence charity event when she was shot and killed. The event was for an organization started after the shooting death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton. Police haven't made an arrest in the shooting. Leonore was one of four people killed and 32 others injured by guns in Chicago this past weekend.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Are you invested in gun violence?
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
1.5 million U.S. children
1.5 million U.S. children
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►  1.5 million U.S. children are living with unlocked, loaded guns. Deaths and injuries from unsecured guns are preventable. Watch and share States United new video, Monster in the Closet. ►The American College of Physicians, Annals of Internal Medicine, Reducing Firearm-Related Injuries and Deaths in the U.S., offers nine strategies to address the societal, medical, and regulatory barriers to reducing gun violence deaths and injuries. ACP recommends that firearm safety be approached as a public health issue so that policy decisions are based on scientific evidence. ► Nearly 100 U.S. Senate and House Democrats are asking President Obama to take executive action to close loopholes to ban imports of military-style firearms. The ban began during the George H.W. Bush administration but was allowed to lapse under President George W. Bush. ► For thesecond time in less than five years President Obama travels to Fort Hood in Texas to honor the memory of U.S. Army soldiers killed in a shooting. Gunman killed 3, wounded 16 before committing suicide. ► Christian Science Monitor,Why NRA battles courts for right to carry a concealed weapon. The NRA employs about two dozen in-house lawyers and hires many more outside lawyers fighting to expand the right to carry guns outside the home. So far, federal judges across the country have rejected the NRA's legal challenges. ► St. Louis, Missouri, Public Radio, Dr. Saaid Khojasteh and Dr. David Jaffe contend that when children are exposed to gun violence, it becomes a public health issue. Dr. Jaffe sees gun regulation as akin to regulations put in place for driving or smoking. "We've come, through research, to understand that appropriate regulation is good for the public health." ► Lawmakers send letter to U.S. House Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urging them to block gun riders included in appropriations bills in recent years that have put prohibitions on gun control research at the CDC and have restricted ATF's ability to require gun dealers to keep inventories. ►  The White House honored nine Champions of Change who work to prevent gun violence across the nation and advocate for stronger gun laws. Honored were James Johnson, Glenn Garrett Grayson, Jamira Burley, Mark Barden, Nosheen Hydari, Pamela K. Simon, Sarah Clements, John Woods and Teresa A. Crawford.
► Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment, looks at the effective marketing campaign by the gun lobby that changed the interpretation of the Second Amendment and offers a simple fix. ► Cliff Schecter, Daily Beast, Florida's Zombie Apocalypse Gun Bill. In case of riots, emergencies, or World War Z, Florida may throw out all rules on guns. This is crazy, even by Florida standards. ► Tim Steller, Arizona Daily Star, In Arizona, if you get scared to death, you can kill the person scaring you. David Mota shot and killed a man who never made any clear physical threat. The man didn't have a gun. In AZ that doesn't matter. Feelings matter. Fears matter. Facts don't matter. ► Joanna Zelman, Huffington Post,The One Question I Am Asked in Every Country I Visit. "Why do Americans love guns so much?" When I ask my international friends why they don't own guns, I get blinks of confusion. ►  At Amnesty International's annual Human Rights Conference, gun violence was one of the 10 issues addressed. "One issue in particular that we're hoping to engage on a greater degree is gun violence and talking about it in a human rights lens," said deputy executive director Cammie Croft.► Chad MacDonald, Quiet Mike,Guns in America: Freedom from the Fear of Firearms. Taking down pro-gun talking points one at a time. ► Timothy Johnson, Media Matters, The Gun Is Never the Problem: A Guide to Right-Wing Responses to Mass Shootings. Conservative media rush to blame mental health, video games, a lack of armed people present - anything but the fact that the shooter was able to get a gun. ►  Rev. Dr. James H. Cooper, Rector of Trinity Wall Street, New York, fights to include a proposal in Wal-Mart's shareholders proxy asking if Wal-Mart should sell products that are especially dangerous to the public, like high capacity ammunition magazines.► Phillip Morris, The Plain Dealer, Gun companies must play a greater role in stopping the slaughter of innocents. And we must start to ask more about where shooters get their guns. ► Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, Esquire, Maybe Our Wallets Can Help Solve Our Gun Problem. The simple solution is not a new law or judicial ruling. It is "voting" with our wallets. Tell every store, every restaurant, "I am never coming back to this store until you ban guns on your property."
► Open Carry Texas publicly posted on YouTube the name and phone number of a woman who called Plano, Texas police with concerns after seeing men with assault rifles on the street. ► Think Progress, Stand Your Ground/Shoot First Is About to Get Even Worse in Florida. A bill to extend Stand Your Ground-like protections to those who point a gun at an attacker or fire a gun as a warning has been sent to Gov. Rick Scott. The law is likely to expand immunity for violent conduct and includes a provision to keep Stand Your Ground records secret. ► Media Matters, NRA Picks Reverend Who Blamed Sandy Hook on Secularism to Keynote Prayer Breakfast. Dr. Franklin Graham will lead prayer breakfast at NRA's 2014 annual convention in Indianapolis. Said massacre at Sandy Hook is "what happens when a society turns its back on God." |
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 ► Brady Campaign, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Newtown Action Alliance protested outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation's fundraising dinner in D.C.► Mary Anne Royal, Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence, op-ed, Maine should hold statewide vote on universal background checks for gun sales. ► Shira Goodman, Ceasefire Pennsylvania, op-ed, Sane background checks are a path to common ground gun violence prevention. ► Violence Policy Center, Fort Hood Shooter Shot and Killed 3 and Wounded 16 with the Same Brand of Gun Used at Aurora, LAX Shootings ► Eileen McCarron, Colorado Ceasefire, op-ed, Why the gun safety laws made in Colorado stayed in Colorado. ► Moms Demand Action, Mothers quilt against gun violence. The Massachusetts chapter joins with other chapters across the country to produce the Dream Quilt. ► New Yorkers Against Gun Violence joins with State Legislators Against Illegal Guns to push for continued strengthening of state gun laws. ► Gabby Giffords, Americans for Responsible Solutions, talks about stronger gun laws to a packed audience in Oakland, California. ► Protect Minnesota rallies at the state Capitol to support a bill that would allow courts to bar people under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns.  ► Connecticut Against Gun Violence marks the one year anniversary of CT's sweeping firearm regulations and promises to support the reelection of legislators who voted for a safer Connecticut.
73-year-old Frazier Miller, a former "grand dragon" of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has been arrested and charged with killing three people at two different Jewish community facilities in Overland Park, Kansas. One of the victims was a 14-year-old boy.The attack came a day before the start of the Jewish holiday Passover. |
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Supreme Court rules 9-0 in domestic violence gun possession case
Supreme Court rules 9-0 in domestic violence gun possession case
The GVP Report - April 1, 2014 |
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► In other court rulings, a federal appeals court in California upheld a San Francisco ordinance that requires handgun owners to keep their weapons locked up and a a city code that prohibits the sale of hollow-point bullets. Also, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin judge ruled in favor of two police officers in their lawsuit against Badger Guns. The ruling clears the way for the case to go to trial. ► Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a law that allows a judge to require someone with a history of domestic violence and who is under a restraining order to surrender their guns. Inslee called the bill a sign that "we can do common-sense things here around gun violence." ► Pittsburgh pastor Glenn Grayson honored by President Obama as one of the Champions of Change. Rev. Grayson is one of nine grassroots leaders who will be honored for taking critical steps to reduce gun violence in their communities. ► Darryl Levings, Kansas City, Missouri, Star investigative report, Dangerous consequences: Preserve a mental health patient's gun rights, or protect the public? Looks at the struggle to balance privacy and gun rights against public and patient safety. ► GunCrisis.org, Annual murder and shooting analysis released; Outlines great progress and vast challenges in Philadelphia. 2013 data from the Philadelphia police shows a tremendous gun violence reduction but once again young black men were vastly overrepresented among the continuing victims. ► Media Matters, Florida journalists: Stand Your Ground/Shoot First changes will hurt reporting. Proposed changes to Florida law will make it far more difficult to report on cases involving the controversial Stand Your Ground/Shoot First law.
► ► Pooja Bhatia, Ozy.com, A Well-Regulated Militia. Most Americans support stronger gun laws, but legislation doesn't pass. Cities are looking to do an end run around legislative impasse. Police departments purchase a significant number of guns, why not leverage that buying power to influence the gun industry? ► WTXF-TV, Company Fighting Newark Gun Violence Helps Teen Go To School. Jewelry For A Cause takes guns from the streets of Newark through gun buy backs, melts them down and turns them into bracelets stamped with the serial numbers of the guns from which they came. ► Jay Bookman, Atlanta, Georgia Journal-Constitution, A guided tour of 'nation's most extreme gun bill.' I have to think that many who voted for the bill last week have to be secretly appalled by what they have done, what they lacked the guts to stop. All they knew was that this was a gun bill, and on gun bills you vote yes, without regard to its contents or impact. ► Tim Steller, Arizona Daily Star, Protect kids from guns? Arizona legislators won't hear of it. State lawmakers are deep in the weeds of expanding gun rights, but an effort to protect kids from unsecured loaded guns is impossible to even discuss. "Their priorities are all messed up," said one state rep. "I swear we're going to have personhood for guns or voting rights for guns soon."
► Gregory Curfman, M.D. et al, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vivek Murthy for Surgeon General. Dr. Murthy's nomination for surgeon general appears to be in jeopardy. The critical question is this: Should a special-interest organization like the NRA have veto power over the appointment of the nation's top doctor? The very idea is unacceptable. ► Tony Norman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Post-Gazette. Why can't gun lovers handle rational limits? Why aren't gun-rights advocates willing to tolerate rational limits on who can and can't buy guns? I remain mystified by the gun lobby's embrace of virtual anarchy.
► Gun Manufacturer Smith & Wesson donates $600,000 to NRA. James Debney, president of Smith & Wesson presented Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, with the check during a factory visit. Next year Smith & Wesson employees will have the option of getting an annual NRA membership as a paid employee benefit. ► Think Progress, Why Gun Manufacturers are Embracing Bitcoin. One of the biggest appeals of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is that funds are virtually untraceable and cloak buyers' identities. This could make illegal gun sales easier and harder to control. ► Tallahassee, Florida, NRA"s Hammer Rips Gov. Scott's Staff Response on Gun Bill. After the Florida National Guard attorney testified against a bill that would allow people without concealed weapons permits to carry guns during forced evacuations prompted by emergencies, such as hurricanes, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer emailed Gov. Scott's staff, complaining they weren't doing enough to help the NRA backed bill. |
► "We do consider this a victory, but I don't view it as dead and gone," said Shira Goodman, CeaseFirePA after legislators pull a bill to weaken background checks. ► Catherine Stefani, Moms Demand Action, op-ed, Dangerous court decision on concealed guns must be overturned. ► New Yorkers Against Gun Violence protest pro-gun group's marketing of an anti-Cuomo t-shirt containing images of guns and bullets.
►Leroy Duncan, Protect Minnesota, seeks to reframe the gun violence debate as a social justice issue and to address racial disparities in gun violence. ► Americans for Responsible Solutions is asking Georgia Gov. Deal to veto the "guns everywhere" bill. ► Women Against Gun Violence, the California Chapters of the Brady Campaign and others urge cancellation of Hollywood fundraiser for Mark Begich and Mark Pryor.
Join the Connecticut Against Gun Violence Thunderclap to thank legislators who voted yes on stronger gun laws. The Thunderclap will happen at the same time pro-gun supporters are rallying in Hartford to protest the new, commonsense gun laws.
27-year-old Sam Keen took a cab home after a night of drinking to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Unfortunately, he got dropped off at the wrong place and wasn't aware of it. When he tried to enter the house, the 64-year-old woman who lived there shot and killed him. The woman told deputies the man kept trying to get into her home so she fired two shots through the door and then called 911. |
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