Colorado Ceasefire Founder Eileen McCarron has announced that she will be ‘officially’ retiring from our group in October. Please RSVP to her retirement party on October 23rd to thank her for more than 25 years of work to stop gun violence in Colorado. From Eileen: After 31 ½ years of working on gun violence prevention
Colorado Ceasefire Outreach has received a grant from The Colorado Health Foundation for our internship program, partnering with CU Boulder’s Game Changers. Game Changers are a group of 35 young people who combine youth voices with the science of violence prevention to inspire their peers to take collective action. Their efforts bridge science, arts, and
The Colorado Permit-to-Purchase Coalition, including Colorado Ceasefire and other national and local gun violence prevention groups, has launched a new awareness campaign about the effectiveness of Permit-to-Purchase laws. Such laws, in effect in 11 other states, have been proven to reduce gun homicides, suicides, and mass shootings. They require prospective firearm purchasers to obtain a
A new Colorado Public Radio report on last year’s Evergreen High School Shooting closely examines Colorado’s safe storage law, and whether Jefferson County authorities were vigorous enough in determining how the shooter got the weapon he used to shoot and critically injure two students before taking his own life. The piece says that Colorado’s law,
Element 5/Unsplash Colorado Ceasefire usually doesn’t offer recommendations on non-gun-violence-related measures, but in this case we feel it is important for our friends and allies to know we are urging a NO vote on the ballot initiative Amendment 83. This proposed constitutional amendment would add a constitutional ‘right’ to hunt, fish and trap into our
