A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence   During an interview on the PBS News Hour in 1991, the late Supreme Court Chief Justice called the gun lobby’s claim that the Second Amendment was intended to confer an individual right to own guns “one of the greatest pieces of fraud – I repeat the word, ‘fraud’ – on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my [...]

Who's To Blame when a 14 Year-old Boy Shoots and Kills His Entire Family? A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence September 12, 2019   Late on the night of Monday, September 2, a 14 year old boy in the small town of Elkmont, Alabama, called 911 to report that he heard gunshots in his home. When police arrived, they found one adult and two children dead in the home, apparently as [...]

We're Asking the Supreme Court to Reverse a Death Sentence that was Wrongly Decided A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence   In a study published in 2014 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers from Stanford University estimated that at least 4% of prison inmates convicted of capital offenses were wrongly convicted.[1] In a number of cases, prosecutors knowingly withheld information that that would have proved that an inmate on [...]

These Students Get It: Announcing the Winners of our 2019 National High School Essay Contest A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence Over the past 10 days, we’ve been receiving acknowledgements to the congratulatory notices that we sent to the winners of our 2019 Americans Against Gun Violence National High School Essay Contest. The last acknowledgement from one of our top 12 winners came in on Thursday. I was looking forward to [...]