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Watch This: Preventing Gun Violence

Sep 12, 2024 | Easy A, Gun Violence Prevention

According to research by Everytown For Gun Safety, 59% of adults in America have personally experienced gun violence, or know someone who has.

Gun violence includes mass shootings, homicides, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, domestic violence, unintentional shootings, intimidation, threats, and more. Anyone who lives through these experiences, either as a victim, witness, or loved one to those involved, is a survivor.

Understanding the lifelong physical, mental, and financial toll of surviving gun violence is an important part of finding solutions to the crisis. We can better understand the toll by listening to survivors’ stories.

Greg Jackson, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, recently shared his survivor story on The Suburban Women Problem podcast. Watch:

 

Greg succinctly described some of the hard questions we have to face as a country to solve our gun violence crisis. Next week, we’ll have some answers to those questions, and an easy action you can take to be a part of the solution.

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