The risk of intimate partner homicide increases by 500% when abusers have access to a gun.
@DonHarmonIL has a critical opportunity to close the domestic violence firearm loophole and save lives by calling HB676 for a vote TODAY. #twill
trauma (noun) ˈtrȯ-mə: a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from severe mental or emotional stress. This is what Highland Park HS students are experiencing right now. We don't have to live this way. Call your legislators and demand change. https://t.co/K7e1Om84JO
Back from spring break just in time to vote! If you haven't yet, please do. Polls in Lake County close at 7pm tonight. Voter services info here from the County Clerk's Office: https://t.co/FHTWBDZoBh
.@POTUS is taking action to save lives. His executive orders today encourage an increase in background checks, support survivors, crack down on rogue gun dealers, and encourage the FTC to release a report on the gun industry’s marketing to children. https://t.co/IsjtEojNpQ
BREAKING: President Biden is again taking lifesaving action to stop gun violence. @MomsDemand and @StudentsDemand volunteers helped pass the first federal gun safety law in a generation last year, and we support the Biden-Harris administration’s full implementation of the law.
Jon Stewart's report on the gun violence crisis nails it, Folks. And it includes an interview w/my friend, @gregoryjackson of @CJACTIONFUND Justice Action Fund - the leading force behind getting billions of dollars in federal$$$ for violence interruption
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FRIENDS! Please join me and the National Council of Jewish Women for their NCJW Spotlight for February: "Illinois' Assault Weapons Ban: Why It's Good - But Not Good Enough. Mon 2/27 - 7-8pm CST on zoom. Please register below and spread the word! @ncjwcns
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FRIENDS! Please join me, Lake County State's Attorney, Eric Rinehart, and the League of Women Voters - Chicago on Tuesday, February 21 from 6-7pm CST. Click this link to attend either virtually or in-person: https://t.co/5bTKkuDkPv @LWVIL@saolakecountyil
Have you had enough? If you have, then please contact both of your senators and your Congressperson and demand that they pass meaningful gun safety legislation. Demand that they do something. Now. Do it for Emma. [https://t.co/9JUeVOND7W](https://t.co/9JUeVOND7W)
Pls join me, Dr Halleh Akbarnia @halleh13, @MomsDemand Action IL Leg Lead, Lauren Brown, Dr. Elliot Lieberman, and Lisa Geller of Johns Hopkins @JHU_CGVS for Advocacy Grand Rounds. Thank you to @drsforamerica for hosting! Please register in advance here: https://t.co/Fx3GkgA792
1) We urge Congress to pass @SenFeinstein & @RepCicilline's bill to ban assault weapons & deliver it to the @POTUS desk. Assault weapons are the weapons of choice for mass/school shooters. Members of Congress must no longer arm mass/school shooters with weapons of war. #SOTU
Thank you to Lisa Geller @lisabgeller of @JHU_CGVS for this powerful op-ed explaining the horrific decision out of the 5th fed dist court that blocks the ability to disarm domestic violence abusers. Please share widely. https://t.co/qhpJbubs8I
LAKE COUNTY FRIENDS! Please come on out and support the Vernon Township Dems this Saturday morning (Feb 4 - 10am) at Original Bagel and Bialy in Buffalo Grove. Come find out how you can help local Dems get elected in April. Please RSVP to [email protected]@LakeCountyDems1
More than 400 organizations, faith leaders, professors, and elected officials have signed onto an amicus filed in the Illinois Supreme Court in support of the Pretrial Fairness Act.
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FRIENDS! I am delighted to be presenting, together with Lake Cty SA Eric Rinehart about our new Gun Violence Prevention Initiative to the League of Women Voters Chicago-2/21@6pmCST. Reg here to attend virtually or in-person. https://t.co/5bTKkuDSF3 @LWVIL@LWVChicago
GVPedia just released their newest video, explaining the dangers of Permitless Carry. States that pass a Permitless Carry laws suffer from a 22% increase in GV for the 3 yrs after its passage, more than doubling the 10% increase for the country overall. https://t.co/BEfrxlQm1C