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
“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.
In addition, the interrelated novel coronavirus and financial crisis has made it even more difficult for our country to devote the effort and resources necessary to implement existing and new laws, even if passed.
Our Work
To educate policy makers and the public about ways to protect everyone from gun violence and demand transparency in government to help achieve our goals.