ICYMI: Armed With Reason - Top 10 Articles of 2024
Disinformation, suicide, and of course the election were top-of-mind for AWR readers this year
2024 was a rollercoaster ride for gun violence prevention. While mass shootings and gun deaths went down, school shootings went up, the Supreme Court made a surprise positive decision, and gun sales stayed about the same — which goes against a decades-long trend of upward sales in an election year.
Last week we gathered the stories Armed With Reason posted in 2024 that got the most attention from our readers. In case you missed it, here it is again, below.
Well, that was a weird one.
For gun violence prevention purposes, 2024 had its share of troubling developments. The continued incursion of gun lobby disinformation across the media landscape, more tragic school shootings, and the presumably bleak legislative outlook of the election definitely made holding onto hope hard.
Dig beneath the dirt though and some prevention seeds did sprout.
Among many positive electoral signs, there were less gun deaths overall; the Supreme Court upheld domestic violence gun restrictions; the summer was the least violent in six years; the Federal government acted on ghost guns; and crime in general continued to go down.
As dour as the mood was post-election for GVP advocates, the situation has made us rethink our traditional focus on counting on legislative change from the top down.
Instead, we might want to concentrate more on fully supporting local community violence intervention programs that can help stem gun violence from the grassroots. Increased awareness of disinformation should be another predominant goal going forward.
Whatever topics got GVP activists thinking and working towards a more safe and sane America in 2024, for Armed With Reason readers, the following articles piqued their interests the most.
Top 10 Armed With Reason Articles of 2024
This ranking was based on the total number of times a post was viewed as an email, on the web, or in the Armed With Reason app.
Myth-Busting Monday: Europe and U.S. Have Similar Rates of Public Mass Shootings
Apply a Public Health Frame to Report Responsibly and Effectively on Firearm Suicide
Ohio Faith Leaders Go Beyond the Pulpit to Fight Gun Violence
