Our Mission
Safer Country is dedicated to keeping guns out of unsafe hands.
“Gun violence is a leading cause of premature death in the U.S.” — American Public Health Association, 2020
“In 2017, firearms were used to cause 85,000 injuries and 38,882 deaths, of which 23,854 were suicides, 14,542 were murders, and 486 were accidental.” — PolitiFact, 2019
“Murder-suicides are a shockingly common form of gun violence in the United States — an estimated 11 such incidents each week. More than 1,200 Americans die in murder-suicides each year. Nine out of 10 murder-suicides involve a gun. In nearly two-thirds of all murder-suicides, an intimate partner of the shooter is among the victims.” — Violence Policy Center, 2020
“In the old ‘Wild West,’ they took people’s guns away when they were in a populated area, only to be retrieved when they left. That exemplifies how laws were much tougher 150 years ago than in the last 30 years.” — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 2018
Our Challenge
The NRA and Second Amendment extremists have blocked action at the national, state and local levels for many years.
The interrelated novel coronavirus and financial crisis have drastically reduced the resources needed to fully implement the laws that could be saving more lives.
Our Work
Safer Country educates and advocates to the public and policy makers to promote the passage and effective implementation of gun safety laws that can save lives.
Critically, we also push government officials to track the success of these laws and report on them.