Yesterday’s mass shooting continues Philadelphia’s record-setting gun violence, with over 250 shooting victims in 2021, disproportionately affecting Black residents FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Adam Garber, Executive Director, CeaseFirePA Education Fund...
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CeaseFirePA Declares Police Violence Drives Gun Violence After Shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.
PHILADELPHIA-- Earlier this week, Walter Wallace Jr. was shot multiple times by the police while he was in mental crisis in West Philadelphia. CeaseFirePA, the state's leading gun violence prevention organization, connected police violence to gun violence destroying...
CeaseFire Pennsylvania launches independent expenditure campaign focused on flipping Key PA House Seats
PHILADELPHIA -- Today CeaseFire Pennsylvania officially launched an independent expenditure advertising campaign focused on flipping the PA House and electing a gun safety majority. The campaign was kicked off with two advertisements, each of which will target over...
CeaseFire Pennsylvania Education Fund condemns this week’s vigilante attacks on protesters in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
“Fighting for racial justice is difficult and dangerous enough without citizen vigilantes opening fire on ordinary Americans exercising their civic responsibility to make the world a better place,” said Rob Conroy, CeaseFirePA’s organizing director. “While someone dying or being injured is the worst possible outcome, these assaults—even when taken at face value—demonstrate that the failure of our government to establish gun safety laws actively endangers our communities and works to weaken our democracy.”
New Videos Help Doctors Protect Patients During Gun Sale Surge
According to new research, the dramatic surge in gun sales since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to more suicide by gun, intimate partner violence, and surging violence in communities around the country. To address this growing problem, leading public...
CeaseFirePA is Hiring a Campaign Organizer
CeaseFirePA is looking for organizers to help end the epidemic of gun violence by leading our efforts in Pennsylvania. Gun violence takes too many lives and harms too many people across the country. Mass shootings have devastated Pittsburgh, Parkland, Las Vegas,...
60 local leaders urge PA Supreme Court to allow gun safety innovation
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a monumental gun safety case (Firearm Owners Against Crime (FOAC) et al v. Harrisburg) that could drastically alter how local governments attempt to address gun violence in their communities. Today, a...
CeaseFirePA is Hiring a Philadelphia Organizer
CeaseFirePA is looking for organizers to help end the epidemic of gun violence by leading our efforts in Pennsylvania. Gun violence takes too many lives and harms too many people across the country. Mass shootings have devastated Pittsburgh, Parkland, Las Vegas,...
CeaseFirePA stands with Communities of Color against systemic violence
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the resulting protests against the ongoing violence regularly and systematically inflicted upon African-American communities, CeaseFirePA Executive Director Adam Garber issued the following statement: George Floyd's death...
Public Safety Wins Supreme Court Gun Case
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an unsigned opinion ruling 6-3 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association's challenge to a former New York City gun law to be moot. The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, an affiliate of the NRA,...
