On May 26, 2022 Sue Larson, from Cumberland, had her rebuttal to a pro-gun letter published in the Valley Breeze. Here we republish her article: Larson: More guns result in more deaths In response to “It’s time that Rhode Island adopt Constitutional Carry” (May 19,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 24, 2022 CONTACT: Pete Bilderback, RICAGV Board Vice-Chair, wpbilderback@gmail.com Providence, RI (Monday, May 24, 2022) – At least 19 children and two adults are dead in Uvalde, TX at the hands of a mass shooter. Once again,...
RICAGV Board Secretary Diana Garlington spoke for the Coalition at the Nonviolence Institute’s press conference on the racially-motivated gun massacre of ten Black Americans; three others were wounded. Diana read part of our press release on this horrific event,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 16, 2022 CONTACT: Pete Bilderback, RICAGV Board Vice-Chair, wpbilderback@gmail.com Three Back-to-Back Mass Shootings Before we even had time to express our condolences to the victims, families, and community members in Buffalo, where...
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Rhode Island Outpacing Neighboring States of Connecticut and Massachusetts Take Action Now On April 26, 2022, the Boston Globe reported a disturbing increase in handgun carrying among youth in New England. As outlined in the chart below, Rhode Island is outpacing...
A National Day of Remebrance for Victims of Gun Violence Wear Orange begins on the first Friday in June, and coincides with National Gun Violence Prevention Day; Wear Orange events continue through the weekend in communities across the country. The movement was...
A New Category of Gun Violence Tracking: Road Rage Shootings Along with the huge spike in FBI NICS Firearm Background Checks and gun sales from 2020 and 2021, there has been a corresponding surge in road rage shootings. NBCNews reports that 2021 was the “worst...
Firearms surpass motor vehicle crashes as the most common cause of death in youths and children Crossing Lines — A Change in the Leading Cause of Death Among U.S. Children, an article published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, outlines how we have...
Senate President Dominick Ruggerio, in third bout with cancer, is resolute about his role.April 18, 2024
