Anyone who is seriously interested in helping achieve the adoption of the kinds of definitive gun control laws necessary to stop the U.S. epidemic of gun violence is invited to participate in an online discussion hosted by Americans Against Gun Violence of the book, Dunblane: Never Forget, with the book’s author, Dr. Michael North, on Sunday, November 7, at 11 AM PST. Here is the URL for logging in to the discussion: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87981540216?pwd=UUhQM0ZGbjZwMDVzTTcxcERsZVNQZz09 Dr. North [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence president Dr. Bill Durston was invited to speak on the topic, "Gun Violence in America: A Preventable Epidemic," during an hour long interactive online forum hosted by the Pathways for Justice Ministry of Sacramento's St. Francis of Assisi Parish on Monday, June 28. The event was recorded and can be viewed online by clicking on this link: https://youtu.be/vsTZ0HRicJg During his presentation, which is supplemented with illustrative slides, Dr. Durston speaks and [...]

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, in lieu of an in person annual fall dinner this year, we’re going to be hosting our first annual “virtual” fall conference via Zoom on Sunday, November 15, from 12 noon-2 PM PST. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Michael North of Scotland. Dr. North lost his five year old daughter, Sophie, in the mass shooting committed with handguns at the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland in 1996. Dr. [...]

Reservations are now closed Americans Against Gun Violence annual dinner on the evening of Sunday, November 3, at the Hilton Arden West, 2200 Harvard Street, in Sacramento, California.  If you've already made reservations, we look forward to seeing you there. Doors open for social hour at 5:00 PM, dinner will be served from 6:00-7:00 PM, and the program will begin at 7:00. Don't forget that daylight savings time ends on Sunday morning.  We're holding the dinner [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence president, Dr. Bill Durston, will be the keynote speaker at the annual AfriPeace Foundation Benefit Dinner on the evening of Saturday, October 13. The dinner is being held in Edwards Plaza of the Country Day School, 2636 Latham Drive, in Sacramento, from 6-9 PM. The event is a fundraiser for the AfriPeace Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to promote peace, non-violence, and justice in Africa and her diaspora [...]

Click on this link to make reservations to attend the first annual dinner of Americans Against Gun Violence at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 2001 Point West Way in Sacramento, California, on the evening of Sunday, October 22, 2017. (This link was deactivated after the deadline to make reservations is 11:59 PM on Wednesday, October 18.) The event will mark the first full year that Americans Against Gun Violence has been in operation, and it will provide an [...]

The first annual dinner of Americans Against Gun Violence will be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Sacramento, California, on the evening of Sunday, October 22, 2017. The event will mark the first full year that we’ve been in operation, and it will provide an opportunity for us to reflect both on the progress that we’ve made up to this point and on the formidable challenges that lie ahead. We’re honored to have an [...]