Americans for Responsible Solutions and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence to Join Forces

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March 16, 2016 – Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)—the national gun violence prevention organization founded in 2013 by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Navy combat veteran Captain Mark Kelly—and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence—the nation’s leading resource on firearms law and policy—announced today they are joining forces.

By uniting ARS’s legislative, communications, and advocacy expertise with the Law Center’s policy and legal expertise, the merger creates a powerful new force for gun safety legislation, research, education, communications, and advocacy under the leadership of Congresswoman Giffords and Captain Kelly, the leading voices in the movement to keep guns out of the wrong hands and save lives from gun violence.

The merger builds on collaboration between the two organizations that has won legislative victories in several states in 2015 and 2016; delivered defining new executive actions from President Obama to narrow loopholes and improve background checks; and has produced comprehensive resources for legislators and advocates, including a series of Commonsense Solutions Toolkits on topics like strengthening the background check system, keeping guns away from domestic abusers, and preventing unintentional shootings with smart policies that reduce children’s access to unsecured firearms.

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“For 23 years, the Law Center’s attorneys have crafted lifesaving gun safety legislation, defended smart gun laws in the courts, and educated the public on the commonsense solutions to America’s gun violence epidemic,” said Robyn Thomas, Executive Director of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “By teaming up with Americans for Responsible Solutions, our legal experts will now have a much larger platform to help bring key policies like universal background checks to more states. Since ARS’s founding in 2013, our movement has experienced unprecedented momentum, with 125 new smart gun laws passed in 41 states. America is taking action to stand up to the gun lobby and save lives from gun violence, in large part due to the commitment of Gabby, Mark, and the rest of the ARS team, and we couldn’t be more excited to join forces with them.”

http://americansforresponsiblesolutions.org/2016/03/15/joiningforces/

Another great step in the direction of sanity and common sense as the right-wing Second Amendment absolutists and the Gun Lobby become more desperate to flood our neighborhoods and streets with more and more guns.

The Gun Lobby sees gun control as nothing more than a potential loss of profits. Gun control advocates see our movement as helping to stop the gun violence epidemic which plagues our communities.

[flamin lib]

1. This is indeed a good move for both organizations.

Strength in numbers.