Sarah Peck, Director of UnitedOnGuns, published an article on August 1st in ICMA where she details the importance of preparedness in the event of a mass shooting. Sarah’s article tackles three key points that the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde showed us: With growing concerns about mass shootings in our country — especially since the start […]
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On June 13, 2024, the American Journal of Public Health published an editorial written by PHAI’s UnitedOnGuns director, Sarah C. Peck entitled, “Minimum Age Firearm Purchase Laws, By Themselves, Don’t Prevent Youth Suicide,” on the effectiveness of legislative and public health strategies to reduce young adult suicide. As Sarah notes, 60% of gun mortality in America is
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Bloomberg has published an article in its CityLab section focusing on the Mass Shooting Playbook and 24 Hour Protocol published by PHAI\’s gun violence prevention initiative, UnitedOnGuns. The article is titled: What Should Mayors Do After Mass Shootings? With the tragedy of frequent mass shootings in the United States, the role of mayors to help
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Sadly, municipal leaders need to think about – not if – but when a mass shooting occurs, how should my community prepare, respond, and recover? PHAI’s UnitedOnGuns Initiative has the resources to help mayors and city managers be ready for these tragedies. These include a Mass Shooting Protocol and Mass Shooting Playbook. The Protocol is
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In an op-ed published today in the Orlando Sentinel, Sarah Peck, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative along with Northeastern Professor James Alan Fox consider the impact of lingering trauma from the horrific Pulse Nightclub shooting, which occurred 5 years ago on June 12, 2016. Peck and Fox note that the psychological toll on survivors, families, first responders, and others
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PHAI’s Sarah Peck, director of #UnitedOnGuns, along with James Alan Fox, the Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University, published an opinion piece in the Mercury News of San Jose, where a tragic public mass shooting at a light rail yard resulted in 10 deaths, including a self-inflicted gunshot wound to
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In an op-ed published today in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sarah Peck, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative along with Northeastern Professor James Alan Fox takes a very practical approach to help mayors respond to mass shooting events, which have become all too common. While federal legislation mandating universal background checks and other measures remains trapped
Sarah Peck, Director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, recently authored an opinion piece published by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel entitled: Profiting from protecting kids is wrong. Halt active shooter drills in schools. In it, Ms. Peck raises the concern, shared by many, that active shooter drills in schools can traumatize children. She notes that 42 states
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Sarah Peck, Director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, recently authored an opinion piece published by The Hill entitled: A federal red flag law would save lives and give Trump a much-needed win. Ms. Peck notes that both red and blue states have enacted some version of these laws, also known as “extreme risk protection orders.” The
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