Washington, D.C. – The Board of Trustees of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center today announced that Dan Gross, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Center to Prevent Youth Violence (formerly PAX), has been elected the new President of the nation’s largest gun violence prevention organizations. Gross brings to the Brady organizations a legacy of trailblazing, innovative work, and a passion for reducing gun deaths and injuries. Since 1998, the Center to Prevent Youth Violence has created high impact public health and safety campaigns designed to lower the incidence of gun deaths and injuries ...read the full release
Washington, DC -- U.S. District Court Judge Sue E. Myerscough in Springfield, Illinois has dismissed a gun lobby challenge to Illinois law prohibiting the carrying of loaded guns in public. The Brady Center filed an amicus brief defending the Illinois law and citing numerous studies highlighting the severe danger posed by the carrying of loaded guns in public. The ruling was issued late Friday.“We are pleased that yet another court has rejected the gun lobby’s claim that the Second Amendment bars communities from keeping loaded guns off their streets,” said Jonathan Lowy, Director of the Brady Center’s Legal Action Project. ...read the full release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Brady Campaign Acting President Dennis Henigan today issued the following statement in response to U. S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ announcement that she would resign her seat in Congress this week.
"We understand but are deeply saddened by the news that Rep. Giffords has decided to resign her seat in Congress because of the demands of her continued rehabilitation from the gunshot wound she suffered a year ago in Tucson. Congress and the American people now have lost the service of another devoted public servant because of gun violence. It is ...read the full release
Washington, DC -- U.S. District Court Judge Sam Cummings in Lubbock, Texas today dismissed the National Rifle Association’s challenge to a Texas law prohibiting teens and young adults 18-20 years old from carrying concealed weapons in public, in the case Jennings v. McCraw. The Brady Center filed an amicus brief defending the Texas law. The Student Government and Graduate Student Assembly of the University of Texas at Austin joined the Brady Center on the brief on behalf of the campus’ 62,000 students, along with the Texas organizations Mothers Against Teen Violence, the Texas Chapters of the Brady Campaign, and Students for ...read the full release
Washington, DC -- In a string of legal victories for gun control, late last week courts rejected three gun lobby lawsuits challenging laws restricting the public carrying of guns in California and New Jersey and challenging a federal rule to curb gun trafficking along the Mexico border. In all three cases, courts sided with arguments presented in legal briefs by the Brady Center that the contested gun laws were lawful and constitutional. “The gun lobby makes its priorities clear by filing lawsuit after lawsuit to strike down sensible gun laws, instead of working to keep guns off our streets and assisting ...read the full release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Brady Campaign announced today that Yoko Ono Lennon has joined the Too Many Victims Campaign and has issued a simple message of peace to all standing up to light a candle on Sunday, the first anniversary of the tragic mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona:"Dear Sisters and Brothers of the Family of Peace,I will light a candle and think of the fact that no matter where we are, we are together in international unity. I love you!Yoko Ono Lennon"Yoko Ono Lennon lost her husband, John Lennon, to gun violence on December 8, 1980. She continues to encourage ...read the full release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Brady Campaign today announced that leaders and victim advocates across the nation – from Chicago to Austin; Santa Barbara to Harlem; Chattanooga to Detroit, Norfolk to Vancouver, and everywhere in between - have organized more than 60 vigils in 22 states and the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the Tucson shootings and gun violence victims across the nation. These leaders and the victims they represent are a cross-section of America in every dimension, reflecting the reality that preventable gun violence impacts all American communities.Chicago, IL will host no fewer than five vigils, held ...read the full release
The Brady Campaign today announced that Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Del. Eleanor Holmes-Norton, and Rep. Jim Moran will be guest speakers, along with local victims and survivors of gun violence, at the Washington, D.C. vigil for victims of gun violence on January 8, 2012, at 5:30 p.m. at the historic Shiloh Baptist Church, 1510 9th Street NW. On December 20, the Brady Campaign announced that Too Many Victims national remembrances of gun violence victims would be held in cities across the United States throughout the day on January 8, 2012, which marks one year since the Tucson, AZ shootings. Those ...read the full release
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Brady Campaign today announced that Dana Ressler, an aunt of Christina Taylor-Green, has spoken out forcefully against gun violence in a tribute to her 9-year-old niece on the toomanyvictims.org tribute page. The tribute page was set up as part of the national effort to honor and remember loved ones lost to gun violence on January 8, 2012. January 8 marks one year since Christina and five others were shot and killed at a Safeway parking lot in Tucson, AZ. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others were shot and wounded during the Congresswoman's Congress on Your Corner event. Christina, who was born September 11, 2001, ...read the full release
