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...
Debunking the “Mass Shootings are a Mental Health Issue” Published in 2016 by American Psychiatric Association. RSVP for May 31st State House Event FACT: Mass shootings by people with serious mental illness represent less than 1% of all yearly gun-related...
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,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 16, 2022 CONTACT: 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...
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...