Is it the GUNS or the HATRED?
Is it the GUNS or the HATRED? By Karen Pataky, Director, Public Policy & Political Action Committee So, we are only 6 months into 2022 and America has endured 200 … Read more
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Gun Violence Prevention
PPC Statement on the Carnage in Buffalo
It is obscene and maddening that the country must process yet another senseless, bloody weekend. Ten innocent people were slaughtered and three wounded at a Buffalo supermarket brought about by a … Read more
September GVP Update
Baseball or Neighborhood Shootings? America’s Pastime seems to be either baseball or neighborhood shootings! Andrew Patrick, political communications director for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, referred to “shootings replacing … Read more
WNDC Resolutions Adopted by NFDW
WNDC Resolutions Adopted at 50th Convention of the National Federation of Democratic Women The Public Policy & Political Action Committee submitted the following three resolutions to be considered at the … Read more
Wear Orange 2021
WNDC’s Gun Violence Prevention Task Force is joining hands with DC Moms Demand Action to support events for Wear Orange, both virtually and in-person (June 5 and 12, respectively). On June … Read more
GVP Coalition Letter – David Chipman as Director of the Bureau of ATF
On May 14, the final Letter to US Senate Judiciary Committee on the Nomination of David Chipman for ATF Director was submitted on behalf of a coalition of gun violence prevention … Read more
Members React: The First 100 Days of the Biden–Harris Administration
President Joe Biden reached an important benchmark in his presidency—the first 100 days! Having passed the American Rescue Plan, restored U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Change Accord, revoked the permit … Read more
PRESIDENT BIDEN—CAMPAIGN PROMISE ON GUNS
According to a Washington Post editorial, “…more than 300 people are shot and more than 100 of them die” daily in America. And we only hear about the massacres, not the everyday … Read more
Take Action on H.R. 8 & H.R. 1446
WNDC Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Member Lilly urges us to contact our Congressmembers in SUPPORT of H.R. 8 and H.R. 1146. “These two pieces of legislation are great starts to … Read more
Take Action on S. 529 and H.R. 8
URGENT CALL TO ACTION FROM WNDC TASK FORCE TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE “The United States Senate brought dishonor upon our country yesterday. What should have been a clarifying moment to … Read more