GVPanorama: With Federal Gun Control on Ice, Advocates Look to Other Solutions for School Shootings
A local, multi-pronged approach is needed in the face of Federal opposition to firearm regulations
While on the search for recent gun violence prevention news for our weekly "Friday Finds” feature, we often come across editorials, personal stories, or wider-lens articles that don’t necessarily fit into a “current events” window. With “GVPanorama” we will highlight some of these thought-provoking pieces.
Already on Tuesday, the day after the inauguration, we got an immediate, stark signal of how thoroughly gun violence prevention will be axed from the agenda of the incoming Trump administration.
A search for the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention — created in 2023 by the Biden administration — yielded a “No results found” prompt at the official White House site and via Google.
The assumption among the GVP movement was that even if they kept the Office open, it would probably be turned into a shill for the gun industry anyway. The immediacy of its demise though was another sad reminder that any national progress on common sense gun laws will be an uphill slog for awhile.
Hence, as discussed in our latest podcast, in addition to fighting disinformation about gun statistics, we’ll need to lean on previously passed laws, supportive politicians, and regional glimmers of hope — like the good work done by community violence intervention initiatives, hospital-based programs, and of course parental advocacy that has shown real results.
This recent article from The Hill, below, focuses on what other options can be utilized to stem the glaring problem of school shootings in the next few years, despite Federal inaction.
“The multi-pronged approach could be the only way to affect real change on school shootings under a unified GOP government that is unlikely to make any substantial moves on gun control.”
Check out the full article here.
