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FOX 11 WLUK-TV interviewed WAVE’s Executive Director, Jeri Bonavia on Aug. 8th about an “open carry” picnic in Green Bay, as gun proponents continue to preach the wrong message that our communities need more easy access to lethal guns.
The opposite is true: Wisconsin, and our nation, needs stronger and effective gun laws, such […]

On Aug. 7th, Fox Channel 11 interviewed Jeri Bonavia, Executive Director of Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, in response to the disturbing revelations that a Green Bay gun dealer, Eric Thompson, enabled and armed yet another rampage killer for the third time since April 2007. Eric Thompson’s company, TGSCOM Inc., sold a 30 round high-capacity ammunition […]

Regression to the Mean, Murder Rates, and Shall-Issue Laws
Patricia Grambsch
The relationship between state murder rates and the liberalization of conditions under which a citizen can obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon (shall-issue laws) is controversial and important for policy. Many analyses have been done during the last decade, but regression to the mean […]

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Press Release).
PHILADELPHIA – In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to […]