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Lehigh Valley Event: Gun Violence is a Public Health Epidemic

Lehigh Valley Event: Gun Violence is a Public Health Epidemic

Gun violence kills more children and teens than cancer, pneumonia, asthma, HIV/AIDS and opioids combined. Every day we lose 65 Americans to suicide by firearm. Many American cities are afflicted with high rates of gun homicides, and every 16 hours a woman is shot and...

Safe 2 Say Something

Safe 2 Say Something

Safe2Say Something is a program that allows students to anonymously submit tips to law enforcement. It teaches adults and young people how to recognize warning signs and threats as well as how to report them to authorities. 80% of school shooters told someone of their...

Shut Down The School Shooting Hoodies

Shut Down The School Shooting Hoodies

Bstroy claims it was trying to be ironic by promoting these sweatshirts. There is nothing ironic about gun violence.  There is only the real trauma suffered by survivors and victims’ families.

U.S. House Judiciary Passes Gun Violence Prevention Bills

U.S. House Judiciary Passes Gun Violence Prevention Bills

On Wednesday the U.S. House continued their historic leadership in Washington by passing three gun violence prevention bills out of committee. One bill would provide federal grants as incentives for states to enact Extreme Risk Protection Orders. The second bill would...

Community Town Halls

Community Town Halls

Gun violence continues to plague our country. We need to come together as a community to discuss how we can address this public health epidemic.

We Are Angry and Impatient

We Are Angry and Impatient

We watched mass shootings unfold in Texas and Alabama this weekend, a toddler in Allentown shot himself with a gun he found at home, five people were killed and eight injured in Philly and one was injured in Pittsburgh, there was a double shooting this morning in...

Behind The Bullet Movie Premiere

Behind The Bullet Movie Premiere

Join the Philadelphia Film Society and CeaseFirePA for the premiere of "Behind The Bullet" and a Q&A session following the film. Every year, almost 40,000 people are killed by guns in America. Each shooting devastates and forever changes the victim’s family and...

Facing the truth about gun violence in PA