The Gainesville City Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to reallocate $150,000 for city administrative services to a stand-alone gun violence prevention programming.
/PRNewswire/ As more states in the US begin to adopt their own Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), a new study from the Ad Council Research Institute.
Tragedy brought cause for optimism. the right-wing person that spread theories about it being a hoax, he s been ordered by a judge to pay more than $1 billion to the families of the victims as part of a defamation lawsuit. the once powerful nra is hobbled by a lawsuit in new york state and by the financial mismanagement. and this summer, president biden signed into law the first bipartisan gun safety legislation in decades. so the ten years since the horrific events at sandy hook is punctuated by moments of darkness and moments of light. and while every year on the anniversary of newtown, connecticut senator chris murphy delivers a speech on the senate floor decrying america s gun violence program. this year he expressed optimism about what has been done and what s ahead. what we communicated this summer to the kids and parents is that we care.
Posts and things that he was said to have written in the run-up to the shooting. president trump promised to help coordinate a federal response including, he said, tackling the difficult issue of mental health. yes. this is sort of a rich comment from the president. of course he talked about mental health. he didn t talk about guns. didn t say the word once in a seven-minute comment. pretty astonishing, in fact. even if one buys that the issue is mental health, trump ought to put his money where his mouth is. if you look at his budget, also released this week, he axes lots of sources of mental health services for americans, including through medicaid. there are hundreds of billions of dollars in his budget that are cut from medicaid. and medicaid serves something like a fifth of people who have mental illness in this country, a quarter of people who have serious mental illness. basically one out of every ten medicaid dollars spent goes towards mental health. this is incredibly in