GUNSENSE! Action for Gun Violence Prevention is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. EVERYONE is welcome! Help us transform the Gun Culture. Our Mission:
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The tragic level of escalating violence inflicted by guns in our society is unacceptable.
2. We believe that the glut of deadly weapons flooding our communities is the immediate cause of the most deadly violence.
3. We claim our right to protect ourselves and our children from harm by working to regulate and reduce the number of lethal weapons in our communities, and uniting all that can be united for this cause.
02/07/2025
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2025/02/07/voices-its-past-time-utah-takes/
Voices: It’s past time Utah takes a public health approach to gun violence “To prevent accidents, su***des, school shootings and thefts — hold adults accountable if they fail to lock up their fire arms to keep them away from our children,” writes Linda F. Smith in an op-ed.
Does our public health matter? Do our politicians and lawmakers care about public health? Editors for The Journal of American Medical Association are going on record to state "More background checks; more hotel, school, and venue security; more restrictions on the number and types of guns that individuals can own; and development of “smart guns” may help decrease firearm violence. But the key to reducing firearm deaths in the United States is to understand and reduce exposure to the cause, just like in any epidemic, and in this case that is guns."
The Epidemic of Guns The shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, that left 59 people dead, 10 times that number wounded, and thousands of people with the psychological distress from being present at the scene during and after the massacre has once again raised the issue of what we as a nation can and should do about guns. The...
07/01/2016
The power of the NRA.
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The NRA Just Censored 38,000 Websites and Nobody's Talking About It Shoot first, ask questions later.
06/15/2016
From Self-loathing Homophobic Gay Salafists in Orlando a couple of days ago to Mentally Ill Teenagers in Sandy Hook a couple of years ago, the ArmaLite Rifle 15 is the weapon of choice. Brand loyalty to that product is through the roof! What, we wonder, is the brilliant marketing strategy behind America's most valued commodity?
It’s An Honor To Continue Being Valued Over Countless Human Lives By An AR-15
05/25/2016
Just so everyone knows, these are the kind of as****es that routinely spout nonsense and threats on this page. Yep, that's a rifle this responsible gun owner is pointing at the camera. This one, Timothy Allen Albertson flatters himself a pious patriot no doubt. And thinks he represents the LDS church. Then again, for all we've heard from self-declared Mormons on this page, maybe he does?
05/24/2016
Elizabeth Holtzman: The male logic of gun rights With the presumptive GOP nominee having just predictably pledged fealty to the gun lobby...
05/24/2016
A Morrmon man from Utah, his Gun, and Mental Illness.
My boyfriend insisted a gun would keep us “safer” up until the day he shot me in the face Kenny wanted me all to himself. If he could not have me, then he wanted to kill me. But I am still here.
05/15/2016
05/08/2016
“The evidence is overwhelming, from case control studies and ecological studies. For example, why do we have very different su***de rates across cities, across states, across regions in the United States. To explain the differences in su***de rates across states, turns out it’s not well explained at all by differences in mental health, it’s not well explained at all by differences in the number of psychiatrists, it’s not even explained by differences in su***de ideation among the population or even su***de attempts. What really explains the difference in the United States across the populations is the number of guns. Because it’s gun su***de which is so different.”
Su***de Differences by Region Related to Gun Availability The presence of a gun increases the likelihood that someone in the home will die a violent death, particularly by su***de.
05/08/2016
German & Austrian gun manufacturers are supporting or going along with sensible gun controls in Germany & Austria, because the Government requires it. In the U.S. the Government has written a blank check. Profits over People.
How Germany approaches guns Germany, per capita, has the fourth-highest gun ownership in the world, but its strict laws mean they are largely kept out of the public eye.