Thank you to the more than 70 friends, partner organizations, supporters, and legislative champions who joined in the celebration of the success of the Campaign for Gun Violence Prevention RI in 2022. Linda Finn, RICAGV co-founder and founding Executive Director, was...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 16, 2022CONTACT: Sydney Montstream-Quas, RICAGV Board Chair, sydney@ricagv.org On Tuesday night the Rhode Island Senate passed three critical gun safety bills that will soon make their way to Governor McKee’s desk to be signed...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 7, 2022CONTACT: Sydney Montstream-Quas, RICAGV Board Chair, sydney@ricagv.org The Rhode Island House Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary have scheduled three critical gun-safety bills for...
Over 200 supporters attended the Campaign for Gun Violence Prevention RI (CGVPRI) press conference at the RI State House yesterday to demand votes for five common-sense gun safety bills that have been “held for futher study” for years. Diana Garlington,...
We are very grateful to the key organizations who partnered with us in the Campaign for Gun Violence Prevention, Rhode Island, to ensure that every organization with a stake in this outcome was working from the same playbook. Coalition building is hard work, but real...
In the 18 incidents that included Large Capacity Magazines (LCMs), 371 were killed and 715 were wounded, with hundreds more suffering non-gunshot injuries. Almost all of these massacres occurred in minutes, with shooters firing dozens and, often times, hundreds of...
On May 26, 2022 Sue Larson, from Cumberland, had her rebuttal to a pro-gun letter published in the Valley Breeze. Here we republish her article: Larson: More guns result in more deaths In response to “It’s time that Rhode Island adopt Constitutional Carry” (May 19,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 24, 2022 CONTACT: Pete Bilderback, RICAGV Board Vice-Chair, wpbilderback@gmail.com Providence, RI (Monday, May 24, 2022) – At least 19 children and two adults are dead in Uvalde, TX at the hands of a mass shooter. Once again,...
RICAGV Board Secretary Diana Garlington spoke for the Coalition at the Nonviolence Institute’s press conference on the racially-motivated gun massacre of ten Black Americans; three others were wounded. Diana read part of our press release on this horrific event,...
2022 EndorsementsJuly 21, 2022
2022 Thank You Party GalleryJuly 20, 2022
RICAGV Statement on Extremist Supreme Court DecisionJune 23, 2022
We Did It – 3 Key Gun Safety Bills Signed Into LawJune 22, 2022
March for Our Lives Photo GalleryJune 13, 2022
Students to Speak at March for Our Lives Rally in ProvidenceJune 10, 2022
RICAGV Thanks Gun Safety Champions for Votes on Life-Saving BillsJune 7, 2022