Take Action:
Voice Your Concern About Gun Violence! Gun violence is preventable, but if firearm injuries and deaths are to decrease, citizen involvement must increase. We urge you to please get involved and take action to influence positive change. By doing so, you will join a growing number of people who are working to make their communities safer places to live.
Here are some simple action steps to Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Involved:
- Be Informed: To advocate for change, begin by learning about gun-related issues and laws. Check out our resource center for added information on this issue.
- Vote: This is key! In order to ensure that candidates who are supportive of responsible gun policy get elected and stay in office, it is essential that you register to vote and then go to the polls once election time rolls around!
- Write a Letter to the Editor: Write a letter to the editor or submit an Op-ed piece for publication in your local newspaper. It's a great way to get others in your community to care about this issue.
- Contact Your Legislators: Write, phone or visit your members of Congress, state legislatures, and city councilors. Urge them to strengthen current gun laws and to work to enact sensible gun violence prevention legislation. Elected officials NEED to hear from all of us. Voicing your opinion does have an impact on how policymakers vote!
- Attend Gun Violence Prevention Events: Being visible in your community has an effect on how people think about the impact of gun violence and helps policymakers to see which issues their constituents care about.
- Host a House Party: Invite some friends over to learn more about the issue. NECPGV would be happy to provide materials, a speaker and help you organize the event. And, you can even screen "There Ought to be a Law". (www.thereought2bealaw.com) An award winning documentary that follows one woman's journey to change the guns laws in Maine.
- Volunteer with the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence--we are looking for advocates, organizers, fundraisers and others! If interested, please contact us: info@necpgv.org.
