FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 16, 2022CONTACT: Pete Bilderback, RICAGV Board Vice-Chair, wpbilderback@gmail.com Three Back-to-Back Mass Shootings Before we even had time to express our condolences to the victims, families, and community members in Buffalo, where...
Rhode Island Outpacing Neighboring States of Connecticut and Massachusetts On April 26, 2022, the Boston Globe reported a disturbing increase in handgun carrying among youth in New England. As outlined in the chart below, Rhode Island is outpacing Connecticut and...
A National Day of Remebrance for Victims of Gun Violence Wear Orange begins on the first Friday in June, and coincides with National Gun Violence Prevention Day; Wear Orange events continue through the weekend in communities across the country. The movement was...
A New Category of Gun Violence Tracking: Road Rage Shootings Along with the huge spike in FBI NICS Firearm Background Checks and gun sales from 2020 and 2021, there has been a corresponding surge in road rage shootings. NBCNews reports that 2021 was the “worst...
Firearms surpass motor vehicle crashes as the most common cause of death in youths and children Crossing Lines — A Change in the Leading Cause of Death Among U.S. Children, an article published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, outlines how we have...
A 15% Increase from 2020 In the 18 incidents that included Large Capacity Magazines (LCMs), 360 were killed and 708 were wounded, with hundreds more suffering non-gunshot injuries. Almost all of these massacres occurred in minutes, with shooters firing dozens and,...
Jen Boylan, head of Moms Demand Action RI, published a letter to the editor of EastBayRI on March 11, 2022. Here we republish her article: Letter: Thank you school committee for passing safe storage resolution To the editor: I would like to thank the Barrington...
Ellen Kellner had an opinion piece published in the Valley Breeze on April 21, 2022, supporting the bills that would ban assault weapons. Here we republish her piece: Ban assault weapons to reduce gun deaths Louis Klarevas, a University of Massachusetts researcher,...
Former RICAGV Secretary Nan Heroux had an opinion piece published in the Newport Daily News online on April 19, 2022, supporting the Campaign for Gun Violence Prevention RI package of bills. Here we republish the letter: Support firearm safety bills at RI State House...
RI Youth Carrying Guns Increases 38%May 5, 2022
Wear Orange for Gun Violence Awareness Day – June 3, 2022May 5, 2022
Road Rage + Gun ViolenceMay 5, 2022
Guns Kill More Kids Than Car AccidentsApril 28, 2022
18 of 20 Deadliest Mass Shootings Since 2000 Included Large Capacity MagazinesApril 27, 2022
Jen Boylan Thanks Barrington School Committee on Safe Storage ResolutionApril 25, 2022
Ellen Kellner Speaks Out for Assault Weapon Ban BillsApril 25, 2022
Nan Heroux Speaks Out for Gun Safety BillsApril 21, 2022