Different types of gun violence affect different demographic groups. Gun violence in the form of gun homicide is a racial justice issue in that it does not affect all communities equally. In [...] Continue Reading
Gun Reform
June Is National Gun Violence Awareness Month
Fresno resident Yvonne Calvillo lost her 14-year-old daughter, Breanna Gomez, to gun homicide on Jan. 3, 2021. In 2022, she worked with Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias to have Fresno proclaim [...] Continue Reading
Enough Gun Violence/Brady Greater Fresno
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One Judge Tries to Negate All Gun Safety Laws
The Fresno Bee reported that ammunition sales at some Fresno gun stores increased from Jan. 30 through Feb. 6.1 These dates coincide with federal Judge Roger Benitez halting required background checks [...] Continue Reading
How Did Your State Reps Vote on Gun Safety?
Do you know how your State Senator and Assembly Member voted on the five gun safety bills that were introduced in the legislature this year? There are several reasons why you might not know how they [...] Continue Reading
Improving California Gun Safety
Gun violence makes all our communities less safe. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, California had the highest firearm death rate in the United States. Over the past 30 years, California showed the [...] Continue Reading
Again! Again! Again!
How many more shootings must we have before this nation comes to its senses? Actually, the question should be addressed to legislators, particularly those of Congress. Many polls indicate that the [...] Continue Reading
Brady Comes to Fresno
On March 27, the United States experienced its 130th mass shooting of 2023. The shooting occurred at a small private Christian-based school in Nashville, Tenn. The assailant had legally purchased the [...] Continue Reading
Streets of Laredo versus Today’s Streets of Outlaw Culture
It’s strange that Gunsmoke’s U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon did not require all the rough-and-tumble cowboys arriving in town from cattle herding to turn in their guns at Dillon’s office before going to [...] Continue Reading
Gun Violence in Fresno
The recent mass killings at a parade in Highland Park, Ill.; an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas; and a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., brought increased media and political attention to the [...] Continue Reading