Since we published this article in 2012, in response to the gunning down of 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook shooting, America has seen over 1,500 mass shootings, leaving more than 1,700 people dead and 6,089 wounded, according to a disturbing map published by Vox. In the wake of last week’s Las Vegas shooting, the White House is once again saying now is not the time to, “have those policy conversations” about gun control, and the Onion is once again rerunning their article, which came out following the 2014 Isla Vista killings, “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.” While our federal government would prefer not to attempt improving America’s blatantly obvious gun problem, that doesn’t mean you can’t: consider giving some money, time or attention to the following local and national gun control groups because, in the words of Kurt Vonnegut:
That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody’s whim of killing Father or Fats [Waller] or Abraham Lincoln or John Lennon or Martin Luther King, Jr., or a woman pushing a baby carriage, should be proof enough for anybody that, to quote the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, “being alive is a crock of shit.”
The Brady Campaign: Named after Ronald Reagan’s assistant who was shot and nearly killed by John Hinckley, this group scored a major victory in the 90s with the federal assault weapons ban. Help the cause by donating here.
New Yorkers Against Gun Violence: Formed by grieving mothers in the wake of a Prospect Park shooting in 1993, NYAGV has grown from a Brooklyn-based organization to one with branches in 27 counties around the state. Despite the fact that New York has strict gun laws already, we can’t take it for granted. NYAGV also lobbies at the federal level for gun control. You can donate to them here.
Everytown for Gun Safety: Formerly Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Everytown for Gun Safety is now a coalition made up of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and survivors of America’s many gun violence incidents. Together, they lobby for gun control legislation on a local and federal level, as well as provide a support network for gun violence survivors.
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: Is this the most reasonably-named group in the history of American politics? Possibly, yes. The CSV is an umbrella organization of 48 national groups that seek to free the nation from gun violence through policy advocacy, research and strategic engagement. You can donate to them here.
Violence Policy Center: Even the NRA is a little afraid of these guys, branding them “the most effective, and most untruthful anti-gun rabble-rouser in Washington.” VPC has worked on campaigns from the Brady Bill to taking a stand against concealed carry permitting, filling Washington with reports on the dangers of unregulated gun ownership, challenging the NRA head-on and being a nuisance for anyone looking to make the Second Amendment into a license to carry any and every weapon under the sun. You can help them out with a donation here.
Americans for Responsible Solutions: Started by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the wake of her own brush with death after being shot, ARS is focused on “commonsense” solutions to America’s widespread gun violence issue. Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly call themselves Second Amendment supporters, but are also committed to lobbying for expanded background checks, stiffer gun trafficking penalties and funding studies and research on the causes of gun violence. Donate to help with that here.
Updated by Hannah Frishberg
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The organizations you list are subversives and are conducting an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States, which is the singular, exclusive, absolutely only authority of the United States government. Their agenda is to destroy not only our right to keep and bear arms, but also our Fourth Amendment right to be secure from unwarranted search and seizure in the absence of probable cause of criminal conduct (background checks), our Fifth Amendment right to be secure from deprivation of rights without due process (background checks), and our Tenth Amendment right to a federal government exercising only those powers delegated by the U.S. Constitution and to a State government exercising only those powers not prohibited to the States by the U.S. Constitution, all to the purpose of imposing an impermissible a priori restraint on our right to keep and bear arms over which no government at any level has any authority to issue or deny permission to exercise in any event. Continued interference in the rights of the people will eventually incite rebellion and when the dust settles the subversives conducting this insurrection against the U.S. Constitution are likely to be prosecuted under Title 18 USC Section 2383 "Rebellion and Insurrection," which compels a ten-year incarceration in federal prison. Y'all might want to reconsider your priorities.
What a load of bullshit. David Colon, you should be ashamed of yourself, promoting this absolute nonsensical pack of lies and misleading rhetoric.
Didn't your Mama teach you right from wrong?
I'm disgusted.
The basis of the Connecticut court that allowed the bushmaster suit to conntinue is most disturbing.
The media reported that the judge ruled that the criteria for the ruling was based on "reasonable citizen use"
This reasoning could be transferred to other potentially lethal products such as automobiles.
A car that can exceed 100mph can not claim it has a reasonable civilian use.
I would like to donate to an organization such as People with Morals against people without morals. In short NRA members against liberals. I do not have a single friend in this world that is a liberal and it really does not matter. These organizations are nothing more than a group of people that want everyone to be equal regardless of hard work and talent. And the only way that can happen is to take away our guns. If you are a liberal please listen, you will not ever in your life time take my guns. No piece of paper or you flapping your gums will change that. So move on and go smoke your pot or whatever your into. Out of all the battles you could choose to fight this is the most dangerous one.
I want to volunteer for organizations that are fighting to put laws on to commonsense gun control. I am retired and do not have money to contribute but have time to volunteer. I want to spend my retirement volunteer time to help gun control issues. Please guide me to organizations. Thank you.
Can't do it, Candace. There are no organizations advocating gun control advocating "common sense" gun control. "Common Sense" is one o9f those buzzwords the Marxist Insurgency uses to advance its Cultural Marxist ideals. There is no common sense in hanging up signs inviting criminal, wackos, and terrorists into a facility in which the inhabitants thereof have been made into helpless targets. There is no common sense in passing null and void color of law prohibiting citizens from exercising their right to defend themselves or to be prepared to defend themselves.
Perhaps your notion of common sense is not very common and not really even good sense, do you think? I'll be happy to help you figure that out if you would like to discuss it.
Gun Nuts think they have a RIGHT to own high-powered weapons that can fire high velocity bullets just as fast as you can flick your finger. 100- round magazines (yes - 100 rounds in a drum mag) - only Terrorists and Mass Murderers have any use for them.
The Colorado theatre shooter had 100 round mags but the gun jammed, just imagine if it hadn't!
WE have a RIGHT to not have to live with these ridiculous things everywhere. A toddler picked up a pistol and shot mom through the front seat, and the Gun Nuts see nothing amiss except the gun not secured.
Morons.
Hi, Irwin! Do you think your use of what you think is a pejorative has the slightest impact on the facts of the matter under discussion? I will call your use of the pejorative "Gun Nut" and raise you one "freaking libtard idiot." Now that you have been tweaked for your ad hominem attack, let's see if you have the intellectual capacity to address the issue on the table:
Yes, Irwin, we do have a right to own high-powered weapons that can fire high-velocity bullets just as fast as you can flick your finger. The arms referenced by the Second Amendment include "all the arms typically carried by the well-equipped infantryman, including hand grenades but not including poison gas." (Bouvier's Law dictionary, 1914)
That being said, did you know the .223REM round fired by the AR-15 civilian rifle and the M4 and M16 military full-auto "assault rifle" is so weak it is not approved in most States for deer hunting? Still, we do have the right to keep and bear 7.62x39, 7.62x51, .308WIN, .30-'06, and several magnum caliber rifles as well as a broad range of handguns in various calibers.
We also have a right to magazines sufficient to take out the trash when the assailants come in groups: Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, hundred rounds, As for me, I'd appreciate it if any assailant coming against me would use a 100-round magazine; it makes his weapon excessively heavy, makes it difficult for him to aim properly, and almost always jams.
No, you do NOT have a right to not have to live with these precision-made symbols and protectors of liberty everywhere; this is a free country. If you object to these symbols and protectors of liberty, you are welcome to unass the AO and relocate to France, where savages murder hundreds of disarmed people in music concerts, or anywhere else in Europe where defending yourself even without arms of any kind will land you in jail ("gaol" in the occupied territories).
A toddler picked up a pistol and shot mom through the front seat, and yes, the cause was the irresponsibility of not properly securing the weapon. OTOH, savages shot up a Christmas Party in San Bernadino and the cause was the irresponsibility of the victims in not being armed in defense of themselves and their community of friends and co-workers.
"Morons," you say. And how moronic is it to claim citizens should not have the right to defend themselves from savages and from tyranny in general? How moronic is it to advocate the abject destruction of the first nation in the history of the planet to place private, individual rights in a position superior to the arbitrary whims of self-important little kings, princes, political officers, thugs, and neighborhood warlords, and to advocate restoring it to the feudal Divine Right of Kings to Govern, and govern absolutely. Are you sure you are not the moron in this debate, Mr. Mainway?
33,000 deaths alone has not been enough to deter the NRA and its Republican supporters in Congress. The public messaging of the gun control advocacy groups and their Congressional supporters needs to repeatedly focus on the direct connection between the gun manufacturers who only interested in selling guns and making profits regardless of the violence to public safety, and the NRA, pointing out that the manufacturers contribute a substantial portion of the NRA budget funds and the NRA leadership then goes against the wishes of 90% of its members by funneling money to anti-gun control members of and candidates for Congress and lobbying members of Congress to oppose common sense gun control legislation. This message needs to be repeated by gun control advocacy groups in TV ads and public pronouncements until the public understands the money trail. Coupled with that exposure is the strategy to encourage members of the public to contact their members of Congress showing them how to make contact and to tell their Congressional representatives that they support gun control legislation and adding that if the representative opposes common sense legislation then the voter will vote against the representative in the next election. The advocacy groups should also tell their supporters in Congress to voice the same money connection and urge them to tell their constituents to threaten anti-gun control legislators with negative votes in the next election.
33,000 deaths, over 20,000 of which are suicides, compared to 2.5 million crimes a year stopped by the lawful exercise of the right to keep and bear arms and rarely even having to fire the weapon.
Just for information, Dude, your use of the bogus oxymoron "common sense gun control" defines you as an enemy agent opposing the rights of law-abiding Americans to defend themselves from both criminals and government thugs violating our Constitution (but I repeat myself). There is no such thing as "common sense gun control" unless you are referring to keeping the weapon in your secure possess and not pointing it at any stupid liberal dickhead you don't intend to kill.
As a happy firearm owner and activist, not for the NRA, but for the U.S. Constitution and all our natural rights over which you and your vicious Marxist ilk have nothing to say about already, I am just happy as a free man can be that firearm manufacturers are making tons of money every time one of you clowns opens your yap about gun control.
You will not reach your prize of widespread victim disarmament by illegal color of law, Mr. Murret, because law-abiding citizens don't have to obey null and void color of law. And if you take it to the next level and send armed men out to confiscate our arms, that will constitute and armed rebellion and insurrection against the sole exclusive authority of the federal government, which is the Constitution of the United States, and we will put your insurrection down with extreme prejudice under the terms of 18USC2383 and associated statutes and arrest, prosecute, convict, and imprison every one of your minions, and then we will come looking for the adam henries who sent them.
I recommend you back off from your Marxist Mafia agenda, Mr. Murret, before you find yourself and your ignorami cohorts in a lot more trouble than you have a clue how to deal with.
Read this
http://hubpages.com/politics/Gun-laws-in-Australia-is-the-way-USA-should-go
That's the kind of claptrap that always comes out of Australia. I lived there four years under a Labor (read "communist") government and the only way a communist government can maintain its hold on a nation of unruly people is by lying through their teeth to them constantly. And if you publish information discrediting some claim or "study" or "research" or whatever published by government you will be prosecuted for slandering government. And just to be clear, America is the ONLY nation in the world in which speaking the truth about a topic the public has a right to know the truth about is an absolute bar to prosecution for slander. That's why, when a Melbourne newspaper columnist asked Frank sinatra "why won't you talk to us, Frank?" he replied, "Because you are all whores for the government." And he spent seven days locked in his penthouse apartment without room service because the communist labor unions had blackballed him, until finally the RAAF flew him and his entourage out.
Murders and rapes and other street crime has not increased much since the idiots in government banned the private ownership of firearms because handguns were already banned unless you kept the weapon in a gun club safe and the street crime rate wasn't high to begin with. But armed home invasions and armed drug gangs have increased enormously, but the newspapers are prohibited from reporting it for fear of "inciting the public to revolt."
Thanks for the article. I just donated to the Violence Policy Center partially based on this article. I'm in Texas and I feel a strong urgency stop this epidemic of senseless murder.
Well, you didn't help stop the senseless murders by donating the VPC: If anything, the VPC is one of the primary causes of all the murders. They are about 15 klicks to the left of Karl Marx; they want all citizens disarmed and victims of both criminals and government thugs, and just about the only folks that are not on their list of "dangerous people" are the blacks who are killing each other in droves.
For your information, nothing is going to stop ALL 'the senseless murders,' but denying victims the right to defend themselves doesn't stop any. In fact, it facilitates more them. I take it you haven't noticed that every mass shooting to date, save two, has occurred under a sign that said "No Guns Allowed."