Sacramento California, April 29, 2019: Americans Against Gun Violence extends heartfelt sympathy to the friends, family, and fellow worshipers of the victim killed in the shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California, on Saturday, April 27; and to the friends, family, and fellow community members of the victim killed in the shooting at a neighborhood cookout in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday, April 28. We also extend our sympathy and wishes for a prompt recovery to the [...]

Sacramento, California, June 29, 2018: Americans Against Gun Violence extends heartfelt sympathy to the families, friends, and colleagues of the five people killed, including the newspaper editor, three journalists, and another staff member, in the mass shooting on June 28, 2018, at the office of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. At the same time, we agree with the statement by the late Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut who said in a press release and [...]

Sacramento, California, May 21, 2018: Americans Against Gun Violence extends heartfelt sympathy to the families, friends, classmates, and colleagues of the eight students and two teachers who were mortally wounded during the mass shooting on May 18, 2018, at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. We also extend our sincere wishes for a prompt and complete recovery to all the other victims of the shooting. The regular occurrence of mass shootings, including shootings [...]

Sacramento, California, April 24, 2018: Americans Against Gun Violence extends heartfelt sympathy to the families, friends, and colleagues of the four young people who were killed in the mass shooting on Sunday, April 22, at the “Waffle House” restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee. We also extend our sincere wishes for a prompt and complete recovery to the other two young people who were seriously wounded in the shooting. We applaud the bravery of the unarmed bystander, [...]

Sacramento, California, March 27, 2018: Americans Against Gun Violence supports peaceful protest as a legitimate means of achieving social change. It does not, however, support the kind of verbally abusive, physically threatening protest that disrupted the Sacramento City Council meeting on two occasions this evening. The purpose of the meeting was to allow Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn and Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert to report on what they were doing in response to [...]

Americans Against Gun Violence is disappointed that the Investment Committee Board of Directors of the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) voted on Monday not to study a proposal by California State Treasurer John Chiang to divest CalPERS pension funds from businesses throughout the country that are engaged in the sale of military style assault weapons that are illegal for sale in California. CalPERS had previously divested from the manufacturers of such weapons following the [...]