MEDIA ADVISORY
6,000 Wisconsin Citizens - Representing Each and Every Legislative District - Sign Postcards Asking for Criminal Background Checks On All Gun Sales
Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort to Deliver Postcards to All Members of Assembly and Senate
When: Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, 10am to 4pm
Where: State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin
Who: […]
By JESSICA VanEGEREN | The Capital Times
Earlier this fall, while scanning the merchandise at a state gun show for an antique handgun, longtime gun enthusiast Guy Gorsky took notice of more than the array of potential investment pieces.
Based on the attire worn, questions asked and weapons eyed by a group of young men, […]
By Lisa Kaiser
Those armed protesters at anti-tax and health care reform rallies aren’t an anomaly, argues Joshua Horwitz, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. They’re part of a fringe element of the gun rights movement that supports armed rebellion against what they see as tyrannical government control. But Horwitz, author […]
Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort Press Release
Contact: Jeri Bonavia, 414-351-9283
Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort: The State Legislature’s Failure to Close the Existing, Gaping Loopholes Amounts to a State-Sanctioned “Guns For Criminals Program”
(Milwaukee, WI) – A landmark study released today by the UC Davis, […]
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 […]
WAVE Executive Director Jeri Bonavia interviewed on WISN.
Watch the video here.
Milwaukee Officials Ask Public To Help Curb Domestic Violence
May 26, 2009
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police are investigating a round of shootings that happened over the holiday weekend. Four of those shootings were fatal. Police said these are not random crimes.
Police made arrests quickly in several of […]
Executive Director Jeri Bonavia comments on a movement to repeal a law prohibiting guns in school zones.
Listen to WPR interview with Jeri Bonavia using Real Player
Proposed law changes the “use of deadly force” guidelines.
AT ISSUE: Should the use of deadly force in the home get more protection?
Jeri Bonavia, executive director of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, said the bills are “a solution in search of a problem.”
Read the article here.
AT ISSUE: Should the use of deadly force in the […]
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Credit Benny Sier, April 22nd, 2009. Onlookers contemplate some of the 450 shirts on display Wednesday and Milwaukee City Hall, part of an attempt by the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort to raise awareness of gun violence. The 450 shirts represent the average number of gun violence victims in Wisconsin each year. The […]