North Carolinians Against Gun Violence
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North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Details
Our major strategy for preventing gun violence is through education: explaining the nature of gun violence and ways to prevent it. We also work for enforcement and enactment, through the advocacy of the enforcement of existing laws and through support of legislation on state and national levels.We advocate approaches that address prevention, focusing on the underlying causes of gun violence, and punishment, dealing with the perpetrators of gun violence in the criminal justice system. We endorse measures that deal with the underlying reasons for violence, such as poverty, lack of jobs, family breakdown, alcohol and drug abuse, anger and despair, and the glorification of violence in the media. We endorse measures to rehabilitate young, potentially dangerous offenders, to keep abusive spouses from possessing guns, and to remove violent, gun-wielding criminals from society.NCGV serves as a resource to anyone concerned with the elevated level of violence in our state. NCGV members directly educate families on gun safety including safe gun storage and prevention of accidental shootings. NCGV advocates for the enforcement of current laws as well as for more comprehensive firearm laws which better regulate NC gun dealers and apply higher fees for federal firearms licenses. Since 2007 we have distributed more than 5,000 gun safety locks to gun owners with children.
