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Send us Fan Mail What does Judge Amy Coney Barrett's appointment on the Supreme Court mean for gun violence prevention? To discuss,  hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Brady's Vice President of Legal Jon Lowy, Brady President Kris Brown, Team Enough Executive Council member and Fellow Stephan Abrams , and the Legal Director at Democracy Forward Sean Lev . Together, we all discuss how the S...

Send us Fan Mail Recently, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania has held that the federal gun industry protection law, the Protection of the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (“PLCAA”) as unconstitutional in its entirety, the first appeals court to do so. What does it mean, and where do we go from here? This is exactly what  hosts Kelly and JJ discuss with Team Enough Fairfax member Aaryan Rawal , Dr. Gri...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, hosts Kelly and JJ present to you audio from our live event,  “Brady Book Club--the Violence Inside Us.” As we covered in episode 90 , “the Violence Inside Us ” is a wonderful book written by Senator Chris Murphy. Joined as well by  Brady President Kris Brown and Brady VP of Policy (and frequent podcast guest ) Christian Heyne, we get deeper into the book, discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Fred Guttenberg loved watching Mr. Rogers with his daughter and his son when they were little. Their favorite piece of wisdom was: In the midst of tragedy and catastrophe, find the helpers.  He has carried this life lesson with him, and is now sharing it in his new book, Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me About Recovery, Purpose, and Hope . Fred is the father of 14...

Send us Fan Mail Few know that police officers are at a higher risk of suicide than any other profession , with the number of police officers who die by suicide  greater than three times the number of those that were injured in the line of duty.  Additionally, the vast majority of officers and soldiers who take their lives do so at home, using their service weapons. To discuss why these rates are...

Send us Fan Mail 63 Americans die every day due to firearm suicide . These people are not mere statistics, but are beloved family members, friends, and loved ones. Today , hosts Kelly and JJ talk to two people who lost ones they love-- Adam Friedman , a Team Enough Executive Council member, and Khary Penebaker , a DNC member and Board Member at Everytown .  Adam lost his grandfather, and Khary los...

Send us Fan Mail Is America destined to be, and remain, a violent nation? Why does the US have such high rates of gun violence? To discuss, JJ and Kelly are joined by Jon Lowy, Chief Counsel and Vice President of Legal at Brady, and Senator Chris Murphy, a United States Senator for Connecticut. While Senator Murphy devotes himself to public service, he has been very outspoken about fighting for gu...

Send us Fan Mail Firearms are the most common means of suicide in the United States, and Brady's End Family Fire program addresses the heartbreaking facts that: Firearms are by far the deadliest method of suicide -- 90% of suicide attempts with a gun are fatal , while suicide attempts with other methods are (on average) only fatal in 4% of cases, and; The vast majority of people who survive a...

Send us Fan Mail On September 9, 1971, 1,281 of Attica prison's approximately 2,200 inmates rioted and took control of the prison, taking 42 staff hostage. That riot--and the following four days of negotiations, followed by a massacre- -had a major impact on prisons and policing in the United States. In particular, it changed how people thought about the rights of currently and formerly incar...

Send us Fan Mail Native and Indigenous communities in the US have long borne the pain of gun violence, from mass shootings to high rates of suicide , firearms used in gender-based violence , and police violence. Yet, many in these communities find themselves cut off from the democratic processes that would allow them to bring about changes necessary for basic public safety.  To unpack a long histo...

Send us Fan Mail It needs to be said: communities cannot simply vote their way out of oppression. Too many citizens have been denied access to fair and safe elections due to economic barriers, burdensome new laws, a prior conviction, voter purges, inaccessible polling locations, or a host of other reasons. These stories are common, and dismissing them fails to recognize the heart of the problem. S...

Send us Fan Mail The events unfolding in Kenosha, WI, are drawing national attention. We are living in two Americas — one where intimidation by armed, white vigilantes is glorified and where protesters decrying police violence are vilified. And the other where Black lives matter and police violence is gun violence. Our legal and grassroots advocacy experts convened to discuss the threats posed and...

Send us Fan Mail Team Enough , Brady , and March For Our Lives have partnered on a new initiative--getting out, and supporting, the vote. Based on the fact that Black and Latinx communities that are the most affected by gun violence also face the greatest barriers to voting , and that it is vital that the citizens most impacted by this epidemic are able to vote for elected officials who will take...

Send us Fan Mail Hosts Kelly and JJ are joined by Christian Heyne , the Vice President of Policy at Brady and by Stasha M. Rhodes , a Campaign Director of 51 for 51 , a pro-D.C. statehood coalition of groups committed to equal rights and representation for the more than 700,000 residents of Washington, D.C. Together, they're discussing how democracy is a gun violence issue , and why access to...

Send us Fan Mail Racist, pro-gun, anti-government extremist propaganda encouraging the use of firearms to threaten violence and insurrection is showing up in protests across the country--and the folks using them go by the funny name of “Boogaloo Bois.” Who are these people? What do they want? And what does their existence mean for gun violence, and gun violence prevention, in the US? To find out,...

Send us Fan Mail After the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, there were many proposals advanced by the media, advocacy groups, legislators, and academics for mandating liability insurance for all gun owners. None of those legislative proposals passed, but the argument continues. To discuss why that was, what gun liability insurance actually is, and if it could be helpful, J...

Send us Fan Mail In a very special minisode, JJ discusses New York Attorney General Letitia James ’ announcement that she has filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of New York that includes 18 causes of action against the National Rifle Association (NRA) and four of its senior officers, current and former, for fraud, malfeasance, false filings and abuse of the NRA’s tax-exempt status, among other...

Send us Fan Mail JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson , legal counsel at Brady, for a podcast all about what it’s like to be protesting to help bring about gun violence prevention during Covid-19. To do so,  we went straight to the source--interviewing those from Concerned Citizens DC and Team Enough as they marched in DC to prevent gun violence.  Mentioned in this podcast: Team Enough (Brady) District C...

Send us Fan Mail JJ is joined by Kelly Sampson , legal counsel at Brady, and D. Brian Burghart , a journalist who is also the founder and executive director of Fatal Encounters. Fatal Encounters is a project devoted to creating a comprehensive national database of people who are killed through interactions with police. Why? Because until its creation, there wasn't one. Together, we’re talking...

Send us Fan Mail Throughout the spring and summer of 2020, streets and communities across the United States have echoed with protesters’ demands for the reform or defunding of police departments . To break down the root causes of these demonstrations and what changes their impressive momentum might bring, host JJ and Kelly Sampson, legal counsel at Brady , are joined by Dwayne Crawford , Executive...

Send us Fan Mail Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, continues to have serious difficulty reducing gun violence, with the city suffering in 2019 its highest number of homicides since 2008. The majority of those 166 murders were shootings, and this year the District is on track to be just as deadly , with the majority of the victims expected to be Black men . The severity of these statistics is b...

Send us Fan Mail Gun violence exacts an enormous toll on Americans , claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. Firearms are involved in 100 deaths a day, and 100,000 Americans are shot and injured each year, often with life-altering consequences. To discuss the trauma of suffering and living with a gunshot wound and the activism that can spring from such an injury, host JJ is joined once agai...

Send us Fan Mail Gun violence has taken an enormous toll on the LGBTQ community. According to CDC data , nearly two-thirds of firearm deaths in the U.S. are suicides. For those using a gun, 90 percent of suicide attempts are fatal, and data shows that this has particular impact for the transgender and adolescent members of the LGBTQ community. According to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey , 40% of...

Send us Fan Mail In early 2020, the American Medical Association said that killings of transgender women of color in the United States amounted to an epidemic. Transgender women of color are exceptionally prone to the deadly consequences that arise from the intersections of racism, sexism, transphobia, and unchecked access; 2020 alone has already seen at least 16 transgender or gender non-conformi...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Brady called on the Ohio House of Representatives’ Criminal Justice Committee to vote against H.B. 381, a “Stand Your Ground” law which would allow individuals to use lethal force in public spaces by removing their “duty to retreat.” This bill would empower individuals to use lethal force even in confrontations that could end peacefully. Stand Your Ground laws were thru...