2012

CSGV STATEMENT ON NRA PRESS CONFERENCE

December 21, 2012

Washington, DC—During a tense and sometimes surreal press conference in Washington today, National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre took no responsibility for the tragedy in Newtown and other recent mass shootings committed by heavily (and often legally) armed gunmen. Instead, LaPierre blamed such violence on the media, the “political class,” mentally ill Americans, the music industry, the film industry, video games, the Obama administration, gun violence prevention activists, and others.

"THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS" ARE NOT ENOUGH

December 14, 2012

Washington, DC—We can only imagine the scale of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Newtown, Connecticut as reports continue to emerge about the massacre committed at Sandy Hook Elementary. There are many parents, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, and others who will now never see their loved ones again, never again know the warmth of their presence, never see their potential realized over the course of their natural lives. While shockingly familiar, the nature of this tragedy has left those of us at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence feeling shaken to our core, physically and spiritually sick that this could happen in a modern democracy in a place of learning for children.