"If the political right were actually concerned with the physical and emotional safety of youth as it purports to be, it would support effective firearms safety measures, since gun violence today remains the number one cause of death for young people ages 1-19, at a rate of nearly 5 in every 100,000. Black children are six times more likely to die of gun violence than their peers of other groups."

#drag #lgbtq #GunSafety #ProtectKids

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/the-right-has-never-cared-about-the-safety-of-youth-if-it-did-it-would-stop-giving-them-guns/

Despite rise in #childdeaths, #Ohio lawmakers won’t allow for #gunsafety laws
https://flip.it/102VKv

4-Year-Old #Killed After Caregiver Demonstrates #GunSafety;
Breanna Gayle Devall Runions, 25, was charged with #firstdegreemurder and aggravated #childabuse in the death of Evangaline Gunter in #Tennessee.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tennessee-shooting-girl-firearm-safety_n_64ef77e3e4b0ca54cc6bd8f5
https://youtu.be/_vqBBTIvTsg

Scalia was wrong. Two new databases of English writing from the founding era confirm that “bear arms” is a military term. Non-military uses of “bear arms” are not just rare — they’re almost nonexistent. #GunSafety https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/antonin-scalia-was-wrong-about-the-meaning-of-bear-arms/2018/05/21/9243ac66-5d11-11e8-b2b8-08a538d9dbd6_story.html

Social media companies are responsible for algorithms promoting violent content and should be held accountable.

⭐ Section 230 was NOT intended to allow the recklessly dangerous actions of these social media companies.

@bicmay
#publichealth #socialmedia #gunviolence #gunviolenceprevention #gunsafety #gunsense #enough @law @publichealth #Everytown #MomsDemand

GOP support for gun restrictions slips a year after Congress passed firearms law

#GunControl #GunSafety #GOP #USpolitics

https://apnews.com/article/83c7ece4a3ffb6ff033a07737303d772

The #ProudBoys are at the Tennessee Capitol in their dollar general colors in order to help block #GunSafety reform.

Yes, watching a video on #gunsafety made children more cautious when they discovered a gun.

It’s a simple but effective method to help decrease the increasing and heartbreaking statistics of gun-related deaths in the U.S.

https://theconversation.com/a-1-minute-gun-safety-video-helped-preteen-children-be-more-careful-around-real-guns-new-research-207404

#gunviolence #gun #guns #gunmanufacturer #gunsafety #gunreform #2A https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-gun-violence-illinois-firearm-industry-responsibility-act/

The 2 #Democratic state representatives in #Tennessee who were expelled by #Republicans in April for #protesting in support of #GunSafety on the chamber floor #won #elections Thurs night for their old seats.

#JustinJones won his election for his state #House seat in #Nashville, & #JustinPearson won his race in #Memphis, acc/to AP projections.

#democracy #vote #DemocratsDidThat
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/tennessee-democrats-expelled-gop-protests-special-election-rcna97374

Don’t get too comfortable. It’s about time for yet another horrific mass shooting that could have been prevented were it not for the NRA and its purchased congressional Republican tools.
#MassShootings #GunViolence #GunSafety #RedFlagLaws

California is the epicenter of American gun violence research, largely because it maintains an extensive repository of firearms data.

A lawsuit brought by gun-rights activists now threatens that longstanding data infrastructure.

LA Times Owen Tucker-Smith

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-25/california-gun-violence-research

#guns #gunsafety #gunviolence #nra

Even a 1-minute gun safety video got 8-12 year-olds to behave more responsibly when allowed to find a fake gun, one week later.

Important new research today in JAMA Pediatrics

https://theconversation.com/a-1-minute-gun-safety-video-helped-preteen-children-be-more-careful-around-real-guns-new-research-207404
#News #GunSafety #Parenting #Guns

Welcome to America, where — in any time zone — you’re never more than hours, sometimes only minutes — from Mass Shooting O’Clock.
#MassShootingOClock #MassShootings #GunViolence #GunSafety #GunControl #GUNitedStatesOfAmerica

Finally! BEGINNING to get around stupid laws preventing our collection of data on firearms injuries. CDC helping states address gun injuries after years of political roadblocks https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1184739094/cdc-gun-violence-research-dickey-amendment-faster-grants ...
Can't fix a problem without any information about it (but, that was probably the point).
#publichealth #gunsafety #scienceandsociety

Finally! BEGINNING to get around stupid laws preventing our collection of data on firearms injuries. CDC helping states address gun injuries after years of political roadblocks https://www.npr.org/2023/07/07/1184739094/cdc-gun-violence-research-dickey-amendment-faster-grants ...
Can't fix a problem without any information about it (but, that was probably the point).
#publichealth #gunsafety #scienceandsociety

Fire, not firecrackers, on the 4th: The disconnect between overwhelming US support for commonsense gun controls & the failure to enact them nationwide is among the strongest evidence of the nation's antidemocratic drift, driven by a radicalized GOP.

LA Times Jackie Calmes

https://t.co/ZvV2bTd192

#guns #guncontrol #gunviolence #GunSafety

I'm cutting Horace off. The idiot doesn't understand a cigarette lighter shaped like a gun is not funny. I'm not getting arrested or shot for hanging out with him.

S01E18
#murdershewrote #gunsafety

Guns left unlocked, loaded
The deadly accidents occur
Cries for help increase

#gunviolence #childsafety #gunsafety #haiku #poetry

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/health/children-accidental-shootings/index.html

"A pregnant mother and her unborn child were fatally shot inside their Ohio home after her 2-year-old son mistakenly got a hold of his father’s handgun, police said Tuesday."

He didn't "mistakenly" do anything. His parents were criminally negligent, and death was the result. How many times does this story need to repeat itself before people start locking up their fucking firearms?
#gunsafety #guncontol

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pregnant-mother-killed-toddler-gun-accident_n_6493658be4b0aec6b7fe3794