I’d like to invite everyone who is serous about stopping our country's shameful epidemic of gun violence to participate in an online discussion of the book, Dunblane: Never Forget, with the book's author, Dr. Michael North on Sunday, November 7, at 11 AM PST. Dr. North, who was our keynote speaker at last year’s online annual conference, lost his five year old daughter, Sophie, in the mass shooting at the elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, [...]

The U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic Is Far Worse Than An “Embarrassment” – And the President’s Proposals for Stopping It Are Woefully Inadequate A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence April 18, 2021   In a speech that he delivered in the White House Rose Garden on the morning of April 8, 2021, following four high profile mass shootings – in Atlanta, Georgia; Boulder, Colorado; Orange, California; and Rock Hill, South Carolina – [...]

A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence March 25, 2021   Mass shootings are once again front page news. On March 16, a lone gunman, 21 year old Robert Aaron Long, shot and killed eight people, including six Asian American women, and wounded one other person at three different spas in the Atlanta, Georgia area. On March 22, another gunman (allegedly 21 year old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa), shot and killed ten [...]

Announcing the Opening of our 2021 National High School Essay Contest - with a mixture of some pleasure and great concern A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence   It's with a mixture of some pleasure and also great concern that I'm posting this message to announce that our 2021 Americans Against Gun Violence National High School Essay Contest is now open to all U.S. high school students. I'm pleased that this is the [...]

The Holiday Season Has Started Off With A "Bang" - actually, with multiple bangs A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence December 1, 2020   During the four day period from the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 26, through Sunday, November 29, there were eight mass shootings in the United States,[1] beginning with a shooting in Henderson, Nevada, on Thanksgiving morning, committed by a couple who drove through the city shooting randomly [...]

A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence November 9, 2020 With the outcome of the 2020 presidential election now decided, the fact that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be the next President and Vice President, respectively, of the United States of America brings new hope that we can make progress toward ending our country’s epidemic of gun violence. It’s hard to imagine any president being worse on the gun violence issue [...]

Troubling Trends: Observations Made While Preparing A Presentation for the American Public Health Association Annual Conference A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence October 29, 2020   I had the honor and privilege of being invited to speak on the topic of preventing gun violence at the annual conference of American Public Health Association (APHA) on Monday, October 26, 2020. The APHA, founded in 1872, is the country’s oldest, largest, and most [...]

A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence September 19, 2020   On August 14, 2020, in a 2-1 decision, a three judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California’s ban on civilian ownership of large capacity magazines (defined as magazines that hold more than 10 rounds and abbreviated as “LCM’s”) violates the Second Amendment. The ban had been approved by almost a two to one margin by California [...]

Important Messages in Troubled Times from Our 2020 High School Essay Contest Winners A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence June 7, 2020   Last December, when we announced the opening of our 2020 Americans Against Gun Violence National High School Essay Contest, we couldn’t have imagined that by the deadline for students to enter the contest in mid-April, high school campuses across our country would be closed and much of the [...]

A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence February 28, 2020 What would we do as a country if the coronavirus killed almost 40,000 Americans every year? If there were regular deadly outbreaks of coronavirus in schools, at workplaces, at places of worship, at nightclubs, at outdoor recreational events, at shopping malls, and at virtually every other kind of venue where people frequently congregate? If since 1968, more American civilians had died of [...]