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Every year, hundreds of children in the US gain access to a gun and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else. These tragedies are wholly preventable.
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As the ten-year mark of this horrific tragedy approaches, we hold those impacted in our hearts as they grieve a decade without their loved ones.
An average of 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner every single month in this country. Often, their children are also targeted in these shootings. We cannot accept this as normal.
Now, she’s a passionate advocate for Extreme Risk laws, which temporarily remove access to firearms to those found to pose a risk to themselves or others.
“People have to be willing to say, ‘Yeah, that could be me or my sister, so what can we do to change this?” she said.
Vienna Peoples, 29, and her 14-year-old daughter Labria Miller were savagely gunned down at a home in Louisville, KY last week. Family members said Vienna and the man who carried out the shooting had been dating.
Survivors are the very heart of the gun violence prevention movement. Year after year during #WearOrange Weekend, they bravely share their stories and spread awareness about this preventable crisis — all in an effort to spare others this same pain.
This #WearOrange Weekend, Moms Demand Action volunteers honored victims, uplifted survivors, and spread awareness about gun violence. As Georgia volunteer Phyllis Jackson said: “Don’t wait till it hits your front doorstep — get involved now.” 🧡
“I still think of my son, who was 32, but I still think of him as a little one. He's my little son, he's my little baby, he's my little fourth grader, lying on the floor of that club.” - Christine Leinonen, mother of Drew Leinonen, who was shot nine times at Pulse nightclub and killed
Doreen Dodgen-Magee knows the horror of having loved ones taken by an abuser. Her brother-in-law shot and killed her sister-in-law, Laura, and their three young girls with a gun he purchased just 48 hours earlier.
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Ten years after Orlando’s darkest day, experts, family, and community members weigh in on the grief, what was taken, and how the region evolved.
24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives…
