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The Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund advocates for policies that enable temporary transfer of firearms. Also known as extreme risk protection orders or red flag laws, they empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence and gun-related suicides by petitioning a court to temporarily separate an at-risk individual from firearms.
In January 2013, New York became the first U.S. state to act after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act passed in the state Senate 43–18 on January 15 and cleared the New York State Assembly after about five hours of debate on Tuesday, January 16.
Sandy Hook Promise developed a "Know the Signs" program to teach youth and adults how to prevent school violence, shootings and other harmful acts. It has been implemented in 26,000 schools across ...
"Back-To-School Essentials" is a 2019 public service announcement (PSA) by American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Sandy Hook Promise. [1] [2] Created as a shock piece, the PSA presents American students showing various back-to-school items, with the PSA becoming progressively disturbing to the viewer as the events of a school shooting unfolds.
Sandy Hook Promise's mission focuses on bipartisan, collaborative efforts to prevent gun violence. The Trump Administration worked with the Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund (SHPAF) to pass the STOP ...
On the state level, 525 “significant gun safety laws” have been adopted in the decade since Sandy Hook, according to a new report by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, the ...
The December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting—in which a gunman shot and killed his mother at home, 20 students, 6 teachers, then himself—received domestic and international attention. Public national debate within the United States focused particularly on gun control.
One of the most well-known is Sandy Hook Promise, an organization whose mission is to prevent gun violence before it happens. Obama spoke last week at its 10-year remembrance benefit in New York City.