Safe - RESOURCES
We All Have The Right To Be Safe
Our international friends think we Americans are crazy to have such easy access to guns.
In the UK, a mass shooting in the 1990s inspired strict gun control laws; there’s been just one mass shooting in the 22 years since.
In Australia, there was a mass shooting also in the 1990s. Laws were put into place, and there hasn’t been another mass shooting in the past 20-plus years.
It took a mass shooting in New Zealand to inspire lawmakers to tighten gun regulations.
But, in America, we have a mass shooting (an incident where four or more people are shot) every day, and our government has still not enacted similar sensible effective laws.
In the 1950s, many people thought it was madness that the US government could require people to wear seat belts. The auto industry fought this because they didn’t want to have to pay for it. Nevertheless, seat belts, air bags, and crash-resistant cars became the law. And guess what? The number of auto fatalities dramatically dropped.
Let’s work together for laws that better protect our loved ones, especially our children. We all have the right to be safe.
“I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for the defense of the home.”
Here are some excellent resources with information on promoting responsible gun regulation and keeping our families and children safe.
Center For Gun Violence Solutions conducts rigorous research and uses advocacy to implement evidence-based, equitable policies and programs that will prevent gun violence in our communities.
States United Against Gun Violence was our designated charity recipient for our June 13, 2021 online event. They believe “We all have the right to be safe in our homes, schools, and communities. We have the right to live our lives and exercise our rights, free from the terror, loss, grief, and trauma caused by gun violence. States United is working toward a 50-state solution to end gun violence.”
Coalition For Peace Action works to prevent gun violence, abolish nuclear weapons and establish a peace economy using diplomacy, not war. Led by our good friend, Reverend Bob Moore, this dedicated group of activists has been on the forefront of peace and justice since the early 1980s, when Jonathan began supporting and occasionally working with them.
CeaseFirePA, also part of our June 13, 2021 online event, takes a stand against gun violence in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. Action is needed. CeaseFirePA works in communities across Pennsylvania to build support from the ground up for reforms to reduce gun violence, stop the flow of illegal guns into communities, and keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them. For too long, elected officials in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania have neglected their duty to enact the commonsense reforms their constituents want.
Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence Education Fund is dedicated to ending gun violence in the American state of Delaware and nationwide through education and advocacy. Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence, Inc., their sister organization, works directly on enacting, protecting, and implementing Delaware's gun safety laws. Force For Good is proud to be involved with these uplifting organizations.
We at Force For Good admire Gabby Gifford’s courage to fight gun violence. Led by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, their organization works to tackle America’s gun violence crisis. A safer America is possible—one where children can grow up without fear of gun violence—and that is why they’re in this fight.
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is a 501(c)(4) organization founded in 1974. They are the nation’s oldest gun violence prevention organization and the affiliate organization of The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. They believe gun violence should be rare and abnormal and they pursue this goal through policy development, advocacy, community engagement, and effective training.
Brady Campaign is united against gun violence.
Friends Committee on National Legislation is a Quaker-based organization that supports sensible firearm regulation. We at Force For Good have been proud supporters for many years.
The Peace Center in Langhorne, PA, United States is a diverse community committed to living together in Justice and Peace with a mission to educate, empower and support individuals and organizations in efforts to prevent violence, promote peaceful resolution of conflict and foster inclusive, equitable and safe communities locally, nationally and worldwide. Jonathan has been a supporter of this ground-breaking organization for nearly 40 years.
March for Our Lives has a mission to harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives. During the very first march on March 24, 2018, Jonathan filmed at the Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States gathering. Footage from this event makes up most of our Safe music video.
Here is a beautiful music video by Bill Harley in tribute to gun violence victim Elijah McClain.
Community Justice Action Fund, headed by hero Greg Jackson, addresses the issue of gun violence in a holistic, sustainable, and intersectional manner. It galvanizes the power of the people most affected by the pain to inform solutions that effectively tackle the root causes of gun violence.
“When a country with less than five percent of the world’s population has nearly half of the world’s privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world’s mass shootings, it’s time to stop saying guns make us safer.”
Moms Demand Action is a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence.
Everytown Gun Safety is the largest gun violence prevention organization in America.
Hunters Against Gun Violence is deeply troubled by the increase in mass shootings and generally widespread use of guns in domestic violence, suicides, and the incidental, unintended deaths due to careless use or storage of guns. They believe more gun safety regulation is needed and that such regulation is encouraged under the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment. They acknowledge that new regulation may involve some inconvenience to law-abiding gun owners and that it must be part of a comprehensive approach to reduce violence in society.
Arizonans for Gun Safety. has a mission to engage individuals, organizations, and public officials from diverse communities in an Arizona, United States statewide campaign to prevent gun violence.
