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	<title>New Yorkers Against Gun ViolenceNew Yorkers Against Gun Violence | New Yorkers Against Gun Violence</title>
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	<description>Legislative advocacy to reduce gun violence since 1993</description>
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		<title>Child Gun Deaths and Injuries: The AAP Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a report by The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the absence of guns from children’s homes and communities is the most reliable and effective measure to prevent ﬁrearm-related injuries in children and adolescents.  Firearm-related deaths&#8211;including homicide, suicide, and unintentional deaths&#8211;continue to be one of the top three causes of death in American youth. If you have children in your home, or you&#8217;re interested in keeping youth safe, read this valuable report. To reduce gun violence among children, the AAP supports regulations for child access prevention, safe storage practices, regulations on the purchase of guns, and a ban on assault weapons. NYAGV also supports these and other gun safety measures&#8211;click here for more details about pending legislation and ways to help.]]></description>
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		<title>NYAGV in the News: Guns Marketed to Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYAGV executive director Leah Gunn Barrett commented for &#8220;Guns Marketed to Children?&#8221;&#8211;an investigative report by WABC Eyewitness News. The May 7 segment focused on how gun manufacturers market to children using cute names for guns, like the &#8220;Crickett&#8221; or &#8220;Chipmunk,&#8221; as well as a variety of gun colors, like pink for little girls. &#8220;It&#8217;s about growing the market for guns in the future. Kids getting hooked on guns just like the tobacco industry wanting kids to get hooked on cigarettes. It comes down to the bottom line of money and profits,&#8221; said Barrett for the piece. Here&#8217;s the video:]]></description>
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		<title>The NY SAFE Act is working.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 21:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first arrest made under the New York SAFE Act, enacted in January, shows that the new law is working to protect New Yorkers from gun violence. Raysheem Washington, 25, was arrested in Troy, NY, by police on May 7, possessing a .9mm handgun with 13 rounds of ammunition. Under the SAFE Act, magazine sizes are limited to 10 and bullets to seven. Washington was charged with second and third degree criminal possession of a weapon, having a magazine greater than 10 rounds and with second degree obstruction of governmental administration and resisting arrest. Enacted in January, the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act gives New York State one of the most comprehensive gun laws in the nation, with provisions to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.]]></description>
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		<title>Gun Accidents Highlight Need for Child Access Prevention</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than being used for self-defense, guns in the home are 22 times more likely to be involved in accidental shootings, homicides, or suicide attempts. Many of these accidental deaths involve children&#8211;like the recent heartbreaking reports of a 2-year-old shot by a 7-year old; a 3-year-old shooting himself; a 6-year-old shot by his older brother, and so many others. NYAGV is working to enact new gun safety laws in New York State that require child access prevention (CAP) and safe storage of firearms, and supports New York Assembly bill A-03941, the Children&#8217;s Weapon Accident Prevention Act, sponsored by Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg. The Act &#8220;creates crimes of failure to store a weapon safely in the first and second degrees, aggravated failure to store a weapon, and criminally negligent storage of a weapon in the first and second degrees and directs the commissioner of education to develop a weapons safety program.&#8221; How can you help? Contact your representative in the New York State Assembly and urge him or her to support the bill!  Find your New York State elected officials here. Find out more about accidental shootings in the home with these NYAGV fact sheets: Fact Sheet: Accidental Shootings Fact Sheet: Firearms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYAGV in the News: How can we defeat the NRA?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New Yorker blogpost tackles the question, &#8220;How can we defeat the NRA?,&#8221; with input from NYAGV&#8217;s Executive Director, Leah Gunn Barrett.  Barrett and other gun safety advocates speak about the many organizations fighting for common sense gun laws&#8211;moms, mayors, victims, doctors, state and local groups and more &#8211;and the coordination of these grass roots efforts vs. the NRA&#8217;s single, monolithic voice. &#8220;Our fragmented approach has its advantages,&#8221; states Barrett in the piece. Arkadi Gerney, a former head of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, agrees, adding “It’s going to take a bunch of actors and a lot of voices. . . to engage.&#8221; Click here to read The New Yorker blogpost by John Cassidy in his May 8  &#8221;Rational Irrationality&#8221; column.]]></description>
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		<title>This Mother’s Day Eve: March Against Gun Violence&#8211;May 11, 12 &#8211; 2 p.m.</title>
		<link>http://nyagv.org/this-mothers-day-eve-march-against-gun-violence-may-11-12-2-p-m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday afternoon, honor all the mothers who’ve been impacted by gun violence by marching to demand common sense gun laws. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and the Million Mom March of the Bronx are co-hosting the eighth annual Mother&#8217;s Day Eve March Against Gun Violence. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will be speaking, along with mothers who’ve lost children and loved ones from gun violence. We will be presenting our Mother&#8217;s Bill of Rights at this event. What: Mother&#8217;s Day Eve March Against Gun Violence, honoring mothers who have lost their children to gun violence When: Saturday, May 11th, 12 p.m. &#8211; 2 p.m. Where: The march begins at E. 138th Street and Brook Avenue in the Bronx. The presentation/speakers start at 1 p.m. at nearby People&#8217;s Park, at E. 141st Street and St. Ann&#8217;s Avenue. (Transit: 6 train to Brook Avenue) What to bring: Please make and bring with you to carry eight paper flowers symbolizing the eight children lost each day to gun violence. Click here for instructions for making the flowers. (Please note that we&#8217;ve discovered that chopsticks and drinking straws work great for stems and are much cheaper than the suggested wooden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYAGV in the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leah Gunn Barrett, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence,  appeared on MSNBC&#8217;s Jansing and Co. on May 1 to discuss the backlash being felt by Senators like Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) who voted against background checks. Barrett also commented on the NRA’s new TV ads defending these lawmakers. The Senate defeated the Manchin-Toomey amendment to the background check proposal on April 17, but Senator Manchin has vowed to bring the bill up again. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily Show and Australia&#8217;s Strong Gun Laws</title>
		<link>http://nyagv.org/the-daily-show-and-australias-strong-gun-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a mass shooting in 1996, in which 35 people were killed and 21 injured, Australia&#8217;s Conservative government passed strict gun safety measures, including a ban on semi-automatic rifles and semi-automatic shotguns, and a tightly restrictive system of licensing and ownership controls.  These strong gun laws worked&#8211;gun deaths have plummeted and there have been no mass shootings since. NYAGV applauds The Daily Show for its great coverage of gun safety issues&#8211;and for its excellent segments showing Australia&#8217;s success with strong gun laws. Check out these three outstanding Daily Show videos:  &#8220;Gun Control Whoop-de-doo&#8221; &#8211; Following the Senate&#8217;s defeat of the Manchin-Toomey amendment, John Oliver tests the theory that government-mandated gun control doesn&#8217;t work. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook   &#8220;Gun Control &#38; Political Suicide&#8221; &#8211; John Oliver vows that never again will a political career end in a senseless act of meaningful legislation. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook &#160;  &#8221;Australia &#38; Gun Control&#8217;s Aftermath&#8221; &#8211; John Oliver learns it&#8217;s pointless for America to study the Australian gun control experience because the situations are just too similar. The Daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Myths and Facts About Gun Background Checks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NRA and other gun lobbyists helped defeat federal legislation calling for universal background checks by spreading lies, according to Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), co-sponsor of the amendment and a lifetime NRA member. Claims that the legislation would lead to a federal gun registry, prevent transfers between family members, and violate the Second Amendment were just some of the &#8220;mistruths&#8221; being spread. Find out the real facts on universal background checks with this new NYAGV document: Gun Background Checks: 8 Myths and Facts]]></description>
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		<title>NYAGV Joins Day of Action for Federal Gun Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the U.S. Senate voted down universal background checks and other gun safety measures, NYAGV and other gun safety groups held a &#8220;We Will be Heard&#8221; rally on April 20 to demand federal gun safety legislation and to praise New York&#8217;s Senators for their support. Attended by hundreds of concerned citizens, the rally was held outside the New York City offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, and featured words from the families of shooting victims and encouragement from leading gun safety advocacy organizations including NYAGV, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America,  Mayors Against Illegal Guns, OFA-NY and NYC for Action, and others. Leah Gunn Barrett, NYAGV Executive Director, spoke at the rally and appealed to participants to continue to fight for common sense gun safety laws including universal background checks and bans on high-capacity magazines and military-style assault weapons. New York&#8217;s two senators stood with the 91% of Americans who support background checks as a sensible way to curb preventable acts of gun violence and to help protect the nation&#8217;s communities and children. Senators Schumer and Gillibrand have listened to the calls of Americans from across the country and represented their views to keep guns out of the hands of [...]]]></description>
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