The Campaign to #
KeepKidsSafe from Unsecured Guns
Call Your Members of Congress at 202-224-3121 to Urge Them to Pass #EthansLaw!
CLICK HERE to EMAIL Your Representatives & Senators to Pass Ethan's Law to #KeepKidsSafe
Firearm injury is the leading cause of death for children and teens (0-19) in the United States.
Children who live in a home with a gun are at 2X the risk of homicide and 3X the risk of suicide.
76% of school shooters get their guns from their homes or from their relatives.
Every day,
-8 children and teens are unintentionally injured or killed with an improperly stored gun.
-5.4 million kids live in a home with an unlocked, loaded gun.
-1 in 5 kids has handled a gun when an adult wasn’t around.
Senator Richard Blumenthal and Representative Rosa DeLauro has reintroduced Ethan’s Law in 119th Congress to #KeepKidsSafe from unsecured guns.
House Bill: H.R.1564
Senate Bill: S.726
Click HERE to read the one-pager on Ethan’s Law.
On June 8, 2022, H.R. 748: Ethan’s Law passed in the 117th House of Representatives omnibus bill, H.R. 7910: Protect Our Children Act with 223 YES votes and 204 NO votes. The 117th Senate failed to act.
Dear Members of Congress:
On January 31, 2018, 15 year-old Ethan Song from Guilford, Connecticut was killed by a .347 magnum handgun that was stored in a cardboard box at his friend’s house in his neighborhood. After their tragic loss, Ethan’s parents Kristin and Mike Song championed the passage of Connecticut’s Ethan’s Law to require gun owners to safely secure their firearms in their homes.
It’s time for Congress to set the federal standards for safe firearm storage to protect our children and loved ones. We urge you to pass Ethan’s Law. Every day, eight children and teens in the U.S. are unintentionally injured or killed with an improperly stored gun and 76% of school shooters get their guns from their homes of from their relatives.
Senator Richard Blumenthal and Representative Rosa DeLauro’s research showed that:
1) Every year, an estimated 5,400,000 minors in the United States live in homes with at least one unsecured firearm.
2) percent of children under the age of 10 living in homes with firearms reported knowing the location of their parents’ firearms and 36 percent of those children reported handling their parents’ unsecured firearms.
(3) The presence of unsecured firearms in the home increases the risk of unintentional and intentional shootings. Over 75 percent of firearms used in youth suicide attempts and unintentional firearm injuries were stored in the residence of the victim, a relative, or a friend.
(4) The United States Secret Service and the Department of Education report that in 76 percent of deadly school shootings the attacker obtained the firearm from his or her own home or that of a relative.
(5) In the last decade nearly 2,000,000 firearms have been reported stolen. In 2016 alone, 238,000 firearms were reported stolen in the United States. Between 2010 and 2016, police recovered more than 23,000 stolen firearms across jurisdictions that were used to commit kidnappings, armed robberies, sexual assaults, murders, and other violent crimes.
(6) Higher levels of neighborhood gun violence drive depopulation, discourages commercial activity, and decreases property values, resulting in fewer business establishments, fewer jobs, lower home values, and lower home ownership rates.
(7) The negative economic impact of gun violence in communities is tied directly to the national economy and interstate commerce.
(8) Congress has the power under the interstate commerce clause and other provisions of the Constitution of the United States to enact measures ensuring firearms are securely stored.
There are over 400 million civilian-owned guns in America. Congress must work to promote responsible gun ownership by passing Ethan’s Law.
Sincerely,
Campaign to #KeepKidsSafe Coalition Members:
AAPI Victory Alliance
Advocates for Change
AFT Colorado
Alliance for Gun Responsibility
American Federation of Teachers
American Medical Women's Association
Amnesty International USA
Anchored N Hope 619
Arizonans For Gun Safety
Ban Assault Weapons NOW!
Berean Baptist Church
BPFNA -- Bautistas por la Paz
Brady
Brady Florida
Brady Louisiana
Brady San Francisco
Brave New Films
Cambridge Residents Alliance
Ceasefire Oregon
Ceasefire Oregon Action Fund
CeaseFirePA Action
Center for Asian Americans in Action
Change the Ref
Charles W. Reid Community Help Center (CWR)
Chi-Town GVP Summit
Chicago Survivors Org.
Colorado Ceasefire
CommonSpirit Health
Community Justice Action Fund
Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence
CT Against Gun Violence
Culver 878
Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence
Democratic Public Education Caucus of Florida
Distill Social
Doctors for America
End Gun Violence Michigan
Episcopal Peace Fellowship
Equality California
ESTHER
Everytown for Gun Safety
Faces Not Forgotten
Faith Community of St. Sabina
Faith Leaders for Ending Gun Violence
Falmouth Gun Safety Coalition
Fems For Democracy
Franciscan Action Network
Franciscan Peace Center, Clinton, Iowa
Futures Without Violence
Gays Against Guns
Giffords
Giffords Gun Owners for Safety
Grandmothers Against Gun Violence, Cape Cod
Grandmothers Against Gun Violence, Washington
Grandmothers for Gun Responsibility
Grandparents For Gun Safety
Grandparents for Gun Safety Kansas-Missouri
Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart
Gun Responsibility Advocates
Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah
Gun Violence Prevention PAC
Guns Down America
GunSense Vermont
GVPedia
Hawaii Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence
HB Huddle
Healing 4 Our Families & Our Nation
Health Care Awareness Month
Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, USA-JPIC
Honor with Action Coalition
HonorWithAction Illinois
Human Rights Campaign
IHERC- ANTI-VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN
Illinois Alliance to Prevent Gun Violence
Imani Dream Angel
IMPACT (Illinois Medical Professionals Action Collaborative Team)
Indivisible Auburn, CA
Indivisible Northern Nevada
International Health & Epidemiology Research Center (IHERC)
Iowans for Gun Safety
Japanese American Citizens League
Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society
Jewish Women International
Joint Action Committee
Journey4ward
Jr Newtown Action Alliance
Justice4Ellis
LivesRobbed
Maine Gun Safety Coalition
Major City Chiefs Association
March for Our Lives
March Fourth
Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence
Micah Leadership Council
Michigan Coalition To Prevent Gun Violence
Michigan PTA
Moms Demand Action, Everytown Survivor Network, Wa. School Safety Network
MomsRising
Monmouth Center for World Religions and Ethical Thought
Mothers Against Community Gun Violence (MACGV)
Mothers United Against Violence
National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Council of Jewish Women - Greater Long Beach & West Orange County Section
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)
National Council of Jewish Women, Atlanta Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Austin Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Bergen County Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Chicago North Shore Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Colorado Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Essex Section, New Jersey
National Council of Jewish Women, Georgia
National Council of Jewish Women, Greater New Orleans Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Houston Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Jersey Hills Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Maryland Action Team
National Council of Jewish Women, Massachusetts Action Network
National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan
National Council of Jewish Women, Northern Virginia Action Team
National Council of Jewish Women, Sacramento Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Saddleback Section
National Council of Jewish Women, Virginia
National Council of Jewish Women, Washington
National Council of Jewish Women, West Morris Section
National Education Association
Nebraskans Against Gun Violence
New Mexicans To Prevent Gun Violence
Newtown Action Alliance
No Future Without Today
NO WEAPON #1LIFE EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION
NoRA
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)
North Carolinians Against Gun Violence
Northridge Indivisible
Not My Generation
NWSOFA Gun Violence Prevention Team
Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
One Aim Illinois
Orange Ribbons For Gun Safety
Oregonizers
ParentsTogether
Peace Love Em Inc
People for a Safer Society
People Power United
Prevent Gun Violence Florida
Prosecutors Against Gun Violence
Protect Minnesota
Protest Easy Guns
Red Wine and Blue
Remembering Darien
Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence
Sacred Ground Ministries
SAFE Illinois
Safe Schools For Alex
Safer Country
Safer Schools for Safer Smiles
San Diegans for Gun Violence Prevention
Sandy Hook Promise
Silver State Equality
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Justice Team
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, LA
Society for Humanistic Judaism
St. Mark's Capitol Hill
States United to Prevent Gun Violence
Stop Handgun Violence
Survivors Empowered
Survivors Lead
Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence
Team ENOUGH
Texas Gun Sense
The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus
The Ethan Miller Song Foundation
The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme
The Galen Fund
The Kedrick Ali Morrow Jr. Foundation
The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ)
The United Methodist Church -- General Board of Church and Society
Together We Will/Indivisible-Los Gatos
Veterans For Peace Maine Chapter
Violent Crime Survivors
Vision Morton Grove
Vision Quilt
VoteVets
WAVE Educational Fund
We the People for Sensible Gun Laws
Women Against Gun Violence
Women Confronting Racism
Women in Medicine ®
Women of Color Coalition
World Without Hate
Zioness Movement
