February 2018 – Americans Against Gun Violence

Feb 27, 2018

13 Days Later: A Tale of Two Countries (Reprise)

Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:51-07:00

13 Days Later: A Tale of Two Countries (Reprise) A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence February 27, 2017 Note: If you’ve been reading my president’s messages on a regular basis, the title of this message will be familiar. I used the same title after the October 1, 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas in which 58 people were killed and 422 were wounded. I’m going to keep re-using this title [...]

13 Days Later: A Tale of Two Countries (Reprise)Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:51-07:00

Feb 19, 2018

Americans Against Gun Violence Applauds Student Gun Control Activists Who Are Speaking Out in Aftermath of Mass Shooting

Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:51-07:00

Sacramento, California, February 19, 2018: Americans Against Gun Violence applauds the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and other high schools across the country who are speaking out concerning the need for definitive gun control laws to protect them and their fellow classmates from horrific mass shootings like the one that occurred on February 14, 2018, in Parkland, Florida. Below are excerpts from some of the students’ statements. Condolences and saying we’re so sorry [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence Applauds Student Gun Control Activists Who Are Speaking Out in Aftermath of Mass ShootingBill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:51-07:00

Feb 16, 2018

Valentine’s Day School Massacre in One of our “Safest Cities”

Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:51-07:00

Valentine’s Day School Massacre in One of our “Safest Cities” A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence On February 14, 2018, a 19 year-old former student armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle shot and killed 17 students and staff and wounded at least 14 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Parkland had been rated as one of Florida’s two safest cities, and the 15th safest city in [...]

Valentine’s Day School Massacre in One of our “Safest Cities”Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:51-07:00

Feb 15, 2018

Americans Against Gun Violence Responds to Parkland, Florida High School Mass Shooting

Bill Durston2018-02-15T21:43:29-08:00

Sacramento, California, February 15, 2018: Americans Against Gun Violence extends heartfelt sympathy to the families, friends, classmates, and colleagues of all the students and staff who were mortally wounded during the mass shooting yesterday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. We also extend our heartfelt sympathy and sincere wishes for a speedy and complete recovery to all the other victims of the shooting. The United States is the only high income democratic [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence Responds to Parkland, Florida High School Mass ShootingBill Durston2018-02-15T21:43:29-08:00

Feb 13, 2018

Study shows that U.S. youth are 82 times more likely to die of gun homicide than youth in other countries

Bill Durston2018-02-13T09:00:47-08:00

A study published in the journal Health Affairs in January of 2018 reported that during the years 2001-2010, youth ages 15-19 in the United States were 82 times more likely to die of gun homicide than youth in 19 other high income democratic countries (Ashish P. Thakrar et al., “Child Mortality In The US And 19 OECD Comparator Nations: A 50-Year Time-Trend Analysis,” Health Affairs 37, no. 1 (January 2018): 140–49). Data published by Centers for [...]

Study shows that U.S. youth are 82 times more likely to die of gun homicide than youth in other countriesBill Durston2018-02-13T09:00:47-08:00

Feb 04, 2018

Sacrificing Our Children to the Gods of the Gun Lobby

Bill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:52-07:00

Sacrificing Our Children to the Gods of the Gun Lobby A message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence February 4, 2018 It was accepted practice in many primitive cultures for adults to sacrifice children to the gods in the belief that the ritualistic killing of their most beloved offspring would somehow bring good fortune to their societies as a whole. Fortunately, this barbaric practice has been abolished in modern cultures – at least, [...]

Sacrificing Our Children to the Gods of the Gun LobbyBill Durston2022-10-09T13:43:52-07:00

"Pious condolences will no longer suffice…"

"Quarter measures and half measures will no longer suffice…"

"The time has now come that we must enact stringent gun control legislation…"

"…gun control legislation comparable to the legislation in force in virtually every civilized country in the world."
Senator Thomas Dodd, June 11, 1968