Keeping Guns Out Of Unsafe Hands

An Evening for
Gun Violence Prevention

Founded on February 14, 2019, Safer Country is coming together for an evening for gun violence prevention.

Please join us for a reception on Wednesday, November 13, from 7 – 9 pmat a home in McLean, Virginia.

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Featured Speakers

  • Yetide Badaki, New Safer Country Advisory Committee Honorary Chairperson, LA-based ActressProducer, Activist
  • Hala Ayala, New Board Member, Virginia Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair, former Virginia Lt. Governor Democratic nominee, former State Delegate
  • Andrew Goddard, New Board Member, The Virginia Center for Public Safety Legislative Director

Co-Sponsors  Ronald Abramson, Peter Appel, Rep. Don Beyer, Loren Hershey, Donnie Simpson, Ret. Army Col. Gordon Sumner, Boyd Walker

Co-Chairs  Ken Cummins, Nevin Dolcefino, Safer Country VP Laura Mandala, Laurie Solomon

Co-Hosts  Sue Johnson, Alan Krishnan, Mark Levine, former State Delegate, Ericka Miller,  Saddam Salim, State Senator

Special Guests

Chris Falcon, Fairfax County Clerk of the Court

Ghazala HashmiPh.D., State Senator, candidate for Lt. Governor

Jay Jones, former State Delegate, candidate for Attorney General

Dr. Babur Lateef, Prince William County School Board Chair, candidate for Lt. Governor

Mark Levine, former State Delegate

Saddam Salim, State Senator

Levar Stoney, Richmond Mayor, candidate for Lt. Governor
Richard “Rip” Sullivan, State Delegate

Co-Sponsors, Co-Chairs, Co-Hosts, and Special Guests will be listed and thanked on our invitation and at the event. This list is in development.

Safer Country is a 501(c)(3).  Contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.


Read Safer Country Executive Director Paul Friedman’s 10/10/23 Op/Ed on Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s refusal to take federal funds to prevent mass shootings and suicides, including military suicides.

It was published in the Richmond Times Dispatch and republished in The Daily Progress in Charlottesville.

Learn about the Gun Violence & ERPO (Extreme Risk Protection Order) Study.

This study was commissioned by The Joyce Foundation.

URGENT:  If you feel concerned about your mental health and are in need of special help, call 988, the SUICIDE & CRISIS LIFELINE.