Gun violence victims are among those put at greatest risk by Donald Trump’s cuts to Medicaid, health officials say. The Trace reports that Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ which was signed into law last month, will have compounding effects on the healthcare sector, violence prevention, and mental health services—especially for the people most affected by gun
On Aug. 5 and 6, Colorado Ceasefire Outreach and other nonprofit organizations hosted two events with more than 100 youth, adults, and elders of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to share their experiences, concerns, and solutions related to gun violence on their reservation. Ute Mountain Ute Reservation sits within Montezuma and La Plata counties, which
Some sheriffs in Colorado mountain communities are unhappy to be charged with implementing SB3, the high-capacity permit-to-purchase law, when it goes into effect next year. Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Action and other gun violence prevention groups lobbied for the law, which is intended to reduce the likelihood of high-capacity, quickly reloaded weapons (such as the AR-15)
Nearly one-third of kids in Colorado say they could access a loaded firearm without adult permission, according to a new study by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health. But as the Colorado Sun reports, just as significant is how those kids say they could obtain that firearm: While a slight majority say they
Four-in-ten U.S. adults say they live in a household with a gun, including 30% who say they personally own one—that’s 133 million Americans. As a western state, Colorado has an even higher percentage of people who live with guns. And close to 40 percent of households in the United States with older adults have at
Colorado Ceasefire is partnering with the Ute Mountain Ute community to stop gun violence. If you live in southwest Colorado, gather with us on Aug. 5 and 6! First 50 RSVPS enter a raffle for free gift cards. More details and RSVP HERE: ow.ly/abPe50WsTR6 Also, we are now scheduling school workshops for the fall semester!
Despite decades of gun-lobby claims that more weapons (particularly concealed weapons) make people safer, its own confidential research proves the opposite, according to a new Rolling Stone/The Trace report. One 2018 report, from gun industry trade group the National Shooting Sports Foundation, was based on a survey of 1,800 people from baby boomers to Gen
March For Our Lives March For Our Lives has launched the #ParklandPam campaign, calling out U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for abandoning the promises she made after the 2018 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. At the time, as the state’s Attorney General, Bondi made a range of promises to work
Eileen McCarron Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Director Eileen McCarron has received the Fields Wolfe Memorial Scholarship Fund’s Pathfinder award for her decades of work on gun violence prevention in Colorado. The Award was given at the Fund’s 20th Anniversary Gala on July 26. The Fields Wolfe Memorial Scholarship Fund honors CSU alumni Javad Fields and Vivian
The grim accounting continues to roll in regarding the Trump Administration’s catastrophic cuts to gun violence prevention funding. The latest report from Reuters shows that Trump has terminated more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., cutting $158 million in grants that had been directed to groups in
