Project 2025 Would Increase Gun Violence: Who gave gun makers a GET OUT OF JAIL FREE card?
Why is it you can sue a car maker for a faulty car, but you can’t sue a gun maker for the harm their products cause?
How the NRA Helped Gunmakers Become Almost Impossible to Sue — The Trace
Since PLCAA passed in 2005, not a single gun manufacturer accused of negligence has gone to trial. The gun industry’s broad immunity from legal accountability must be repealed. – Everytown For Gun Safety
Project 2025 Would Increase Gun Violence. It would invalidate state laws on concealed carry, making it so almost anyone can carry firearms in public. — CAP
There are 85 days until 2024 Elections. Get Out The Vote for GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION. GOTV4GVP!
The Newtown Action Alliance House holdout list is HERE and the Senate holdout list is HERE.
Send an email to your Reps and Senators easily by using THIS FORM.
Groups can join the Coalition for Gun Industry Accountability HERE.
Check this map of gun violence and the politicians getting the most gun lobby donations.
Your life vs. Gun Lobby donations
Hold The Gun Industry Accountable
The COALITION FOR GUN INDUSTRY ACCOUNTABILITY is 17 cosponsors away from reaching our goal to encourage the House Democrats to discharge the bill to #RepealPLCAA to end the gun industry immunity. Since February, we have secured 72 additional cosponsors for HR4184 and 3 cosponsors for S2048. If you see your Representative or Senator (s) on the list then please give them a call to urge them to repeal PLCAA to remove the gun industry’s special legal shield that protects them from civil liabilities. Gun violence survivors deserve their day in court. — Newtown Action Alliance
Check the number of shooting deaths, the state’s gun policies and the amount of gun lobby donations to politicians in that state with this realtime dashboard. This map is automatically updated with new shooting data thanks based on the K12 School Shooting Database created by David Riedman.
Follow the gun lobby money
Gun violence dashboard
Dashboards organize information so that you can make sense of a lot of data. It’s like when you’re driving and you can see your speed, gas level and other details about your car at a glance. The dashboard changes automatically by the second. This School Shooting Dashboard similarly presents the facts about school shootings as they happen. David refreshes the database that powers this map regularly with every new shooting incident.
This dashboard provides totals of the number of school shooting incidents, deaths and injuries. This helps provide a better sense of the scope of this tragedy and where the shootings took place. Where in the school and when did the shooting occur? How many bullets were fired?
How to use the Real-time School Shooting dashboard
Use the search bar to find ‘Uvalde’ for instance. Check the legend to see how each dot is proportional to the number of killed and wounded shooting victims.
Shooting incident at Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, TX claimed 39 victim(s).
Killed: 21
Wounded: 18
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: Inside School Building Inside School Building
Shots fired: 250
Indiscriminate attack at school
Pending– Source
Click the forward arrow for the Texas MAGA Republicans and how to contact them with one click.
Senators
John Cornyn ® (202) 224‑2934
Ted Cruz ® (202) 224‑5922
Governor
Greg Abbott ®
(512) 463‑2000
State Attorney General
Ken Paxton ®
(512) 463‑2100
Hold Republicans accountable for gun violence
Follow the blood money
Follow the Axios link to see the GOP lawmakers who get the most cash from gun rights groups. In the wake of the Uvalde Texas elementary school shooting, where 19 kids and 2 adults were killed, there is renewed scrutiny on the hundreds of thousands of dollars Republican lawmakers have received in campaign contributions from groups supporting gun rights.Follow the Axios link to see the GOP lawmakers who get the most cash from gun rights groups.
Cruz has received over $442,000 from gun rights groups, according to Open Secrets, an organization that tracks money in U.S. politics. Texas’ other senator, John Cornyn ®, is another one of the top lawmakers to receive financial contributions from gun rights supporters amounting to around $340,000. — Axios
Podcasts with people touched by gun violence and advocating for gun safety
Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, Founders of Survivors Empowered discuss their reaction and activism as a result of the murder of their daughter Jessi, killed in the Aurora Colorado theatre 2012 mass shooting. Their organization is focused on regulating companies that sell ammunition and repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
David Riedman, Founder and Independent Researcher of the K‑12 School Shooting Database peels back the layers of the challenges of predicting and preventing school shootings. One significant step is to collect data and fill in the missing pieces to get a better sense of who is most at risk of being involved in a school shooting and actions that can be taken to protect students and staff.
Po Murray, Co-Founder and Chairwoman of the Newtown Action Alliance discusses the variations in state and federal laws protecting residents from gun violence. Since Uvalde, there have been changes in the awareness of the need for background checks and holding stakeholders responsible for public safety. Citizen activists are pushing for state and federal legislation to pierce the shield that protects weapon sales.
TakeAway: Stop the gun lobby using blood money political donations to get out of jail free.
Deepak
DemLabs
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