GVPanorama - Gun Violence Must Stop
Here's what we can do to prevent more deaths
As the gun violence prevention movement sees diminishing returns from the Federal legislative level, we’ve become increasingly aware that change is going to have to come not from simply demanding gun control, but focusing on prevention, education, and safety measures from a grassroots, public health approach.
Today’s GVPanorama comes from an organization who knows something about prevention. The Prevention Institute is a national nonprofit with offices in Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, and Washington, D.C. whose mission since 1997 is “to build prevention and health equity into key policies and actions at the federal, state, local, and organizational level….”
The following thorough article offers a wide range of complementary solutions to our gun violence epidemic.
“The recommendations below begin with attention to reducing immediate risks related to guns, broaden to address the underlying contributors to gun violence, and then address the prevention infrastructure necessary to ensure effectiveness.”
Check out the full article here.
Top photo by Michael Fleshman; via Flickr.