February 27, 2023 Meeting Recording

Feb 28, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter & Meeting Archive

Misinformation & Disinformation in the Media: Handle with Care! GGS Monthly Meeting & Program Monday, February 27 4:00 – 5:30 pm Colonial Church in Prairie Village, 7039 Mission Road Speakers: Matthew Waggoner, News Director at KSHB; Lisa Rodriguez, News...

Schedule a Grandparents for Gun Safety speaker for your group’s next meeting!

Feb 13, 2023 | Blog

We’re eager to speak to your group about the urgent need for gun safety! Every year in America some 45,000 lives are lost to gun violence: 2/3 to suicides and preventable accidents plus another 1/3 to homicides. Those who survive face life-long trauma.    With public...

Washington Post Opinion “We need more research on guns. Here are 5 questions we can answer.”

Feb 8, 2023 | Blog

By Megan Ranney January 30, 2023 at 2:59 p.m. EST After yet another week of multiple mass shootings, it is only natural to feel despondent. At times, I share those emotions. As both a practicing emergency physician and a researcher focusing on firearm injury...

New York Times “A Smarter Way to Reduce Gun Deaths”

Feb 8, 2023 | Blog

Jan 29, 2023 A Smarter Way to Reduce Gun Deaths To break the paralysis, focus less on guns and more on those firing them…read more.  ...

New Secret Service Research Examines for the First Time Five Years of Mass Violence Data

Jan 26, 2023 | Blog

About three-quarters of mass attacks in the U.S. between 2016 and 2020 involved firearms, according to a landmark Secret Service report released Wednesday, and one-third of mass shootings in that period were carried out by people legally prohibited from possessing...