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East High School shooting March 22 exemplifies trauma inflicted on community with youth access to firearms

Photo: Two women hug after a school shooting at East High School in Denver on March 22. A recent survey found that many Colorado teens have quick access to guns at home. (DAVID ZALUBOWSKI / AP)

Kaiser Health News, March 27, 2023. Original Reporting by Markian Hawryluk

One in 4 Colorado teens reported they could get access to a loaded gun within 24 hours, according to survey results published Monday. Nearly half of those teens said it would take them less than 10 minutes.

As Colorado Reels From Another School Shooting, Study Finds 1 in 4 Teens Have Quick Access to Guns

Photo: Two women hug after a school shooting at East High School in Denver on March 22. A recent survey found that many Colorado teens have quick access to guns at home. (DAVID ZALUBOWSKI / AP)

Kaiser Health News, March 27, 2023. Original Reporting by Markian Hawryluk

One in 4 Colorado teens reported they could get access to a loaded gun within 24 hours, according to survey results published Monday. Nearly half of those teens said it would take them less than 10 minutes.

Legislative Update

The 2023 Colorado Legislative Session has at least 5 gun violence prevention bills in progress motivated by the November 2022 Club Q shooting, the death of a Denver East High School student, and years of frustration about gun violence.

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Responding to Gun Rights Activists

Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was killed at Columbine High School, has spent the last 20+ years working to reduce gun violence and helping parents, who, like him, have paid the ultimate sacrifice to the gun lobby.   Having heard just about every excuse/argument/diatribe from gun rights activists in opposition to common sense gun laws, he

Denver Prohibits Concealed Carry in City Properties

For Immediate Release                                          May 16, 2022            For Information Contact: Eileen McCarron                                                     www.ColoradoCeasefire.org Denver Prohibits Concealed Carry in City Properties The city council of Denver, Colorado tonight voted

Sandy Hook Parents Win Gun Industry Suit

Historic settlement holding Remington Arms Accountable It is over nine years after the Sandy Hook shooting, but families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting were finally awarded $73 million from Remington Arms, which manufactured the assault weapon used to kill 26 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Remington Arms itself is bankrupt,