Harris’s continuing gun conversation helps define and model responsible US gun ownership
by Sandy & Lonnie Phillips As parents of a daughter fatally shot in the 2012 Aurora, CO theater mass shooting, we urge Vice President Harris to continue a frank discussion about gun ownership to help quell the current scourge of US gun violence. Vice President Harris’s conversation about gun ownership, which began during her interview […]
Gun industry immunity law repeal draws closer with 12 new Congressional HR 4184 cosponsors
Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, Newtown Action Alliance, and Junior Newtown Alliance secure additional support, bringing total to 129 cosponsors Marking 12 years since their daughter’s brutal shooting death along with 11 others in an Aurora, CO theater, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips recently collaborated with Newtown Action Alliance and Junior Newtown Alliance in Washington, DC to […]
3 Supreme Court Elephants trample gun violence prevention
Weighty influence of Roberts, Thomas, Bruen opinions Amid the endless parsing of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment to support gun rights is another famous declaration from the US Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that […]
Guns trigger more than half of nation’s suicides:
Reducing access to firearms reduces rate of suicide ‘Firearms most lethal suicide method by far in the U.S.’ By Sandy and Lonnie PhillipsFounders of Survivors Empowered A Reuters.com headline tells a grim tale of this nation’s firearm suicides: “Firearms most lethal suicide method by far in the U.S.” A Rutgers Gun Violence Research report points […]
How many mass murders would occur without guns?
Never-ending gun rights fiction drives gun fanatics’ friction Even supporters of gun rights can’t make the math of gun-related mass murders work to their benefit. A 2019 article in the National Review, a conservative magazine strongly supportive of gun rights, shows the incredible weakness of their own arguments. Notes the article: “We’re focusing on the […]
US firearm violence costs $557 billion annually
Comparable to 2.6 percent of US Gross Domestic Product Citing a Harvard Medical School research study published in the journal JAMA, Time Magazine reported that gun violence costs the U.S. some $557 billion annually, or 2.6% of gross domestic product. The Time article notes: “Gun violence that causes tens of thousands of U.S. deaths each […]