Santa Barbara Tragedy: Research and Spokespeople Available on Gun Violence Against Women, Mental Health, Mass Shootings

NEW YORK, May 27, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following the killing of six and injury of 13 more in Isla Vista, California on Friday night – Richard Martinez, the father of one of the victims said, "When will this insanity stop? When will enough people say 'Stop this madness!' Too many have died.  We should say to ourselves, 'Not one more!'"

Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America stand with the families and communities affected by this tragedy and will continue to work to prevent the gun violence that kills 86 Americans every day.  To that end, below please find a summary of relevant research from Everytown for Gun Safety:

• Violence Against Women – Research on the deadly relationship between guns and violence against women including the finding that American women are 11 times more likely to be murdered with guns than women in other high-income countries and 57 percent of mass shootings involve domestic violence.
• Mental Health Records – Our background check system is only as good as the records in the system but hundreds of thousands are still missing from the database.  We've achieved considerable progress since Mayors Against Illegal Guns began pressuring states to improve record-reporting – tripling the number of records in the past three years – but a dozen states have still submitted less than 100 records. 
• Mass Shooting Analysis – Although less than one percent of Americans who are killed by guns are killed in mass shootings, a Mayors Against Illegal Guns analysis of such incidents found that a majority found a strong connection between these tragedies and domestic violence or violence against women.
• Not Your Grandparents' NRA – A summary of the fundamental and radical changes of NRA leaders over the past 30 years and how the organization has shifted from one that promotes hunting, marksmanship, safety training and supported sensible gun laws, to one that virulently opposes any reforms to keep guns out of dangerous hands and save lives.

Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action have gun violence survivors and experts available to speak with media on the tragedy in Santa Barbara, please contact [email protected].

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CONTACT:
Erika Soto Lamb: [email protected] or 646-580-5281
Stacey Radnor: [email protected] or 202-870-6668

SOURCE Everytown for Gun Safety

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