From the Pennsylvania Safety Alliance (https://www.pasafetyalliance.org/):
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1,654 Pennsylvanians died due to gun violence in 2018. This is a rate of 12.5 deaths per 100,00 people in the Commonwealth. Of those 1,654 deaths, 62% were classified as suicides and 35% as homicides.
STUDIES SHOW THAT ATTRIBUTES OF PERMIT TO PURCHASE, OR LICENSING LAWS, CAN LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS IN FIREARM HOMICIDES, FIREARM SUICIDES AND DIVERSIONS OF FIREARMS USED IN CRIMES.
Tell our General Assembly to support permit to purchase at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ending-gun-violence-in-pennsylvania.
When Connecticut passed a licensing law, its firearm homicide rate decreased by 40% and its firearm suicide rate decreased by 15%. Conversely, when Missouri repealed its licensing law, its firearm homicide rate increased by 25% and its firearm suicide rate increased by 16%. In 2018, New Jersey was able to trace nearly 10,000 crime guns back to the purchaser or original sale. Just 8% of those guns were used for a crime within 12 months of purchase and only 21% were purchased within NJ; a reflection of strong licensure laws. This means people with criminal intent had to go out of state to find a gun to commit their crime, a necessary hindrance that saved the lives of NJ residents.
Our neighbors throughout the Commonwealth are dying at an alarming rate from firearms. We must take action. Act now at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ending-gun-violence-in-pennsylvania.
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