HCGV is an organization dedicated to education about gun violence and the promotion of regulation to reduce gun violence.
- Firearm Safety in the Home: A gun in the home increases the risk of suicide, which is the leading cause of firearm deaths.
- Risk vs. Safety: While some believe a gun can protect against crime, the risks of family suicide or violence far outweigh potential benefits.
- Crime Prevention Facts: Firearms are rarely used in self-defense, making the idea of widespread defensive gun use largely a myth.
- Mass Shootings: The availability of firearms capable of mass murder is a key factor in mass shootings.
- Urban Violence: Easy access to handguns, especially for those who can’t pass background checks, contributes significantly to violence in cities.
- School Shootings: Often, these tragedies involve guns taken from home. Indiana has no requirements for safe firearm storage in homes.
- Domestic Violence: The presence of a gun in domestic situations greatly increases the risk of a fatal outcome.
- Requiring background checks for all firearm sales and transfers
- Requiring a permit, w Mandatory Training, for carrying a firearm in public
- Safe storage laws for firearms and ammunition
- Repealing the firearm preemption law to allow cities to regulate firearms
- Raising the age for the legal purchase of semi-automatic rifles
- Investing in extreme risk protection order and safe gun storage education
- Providing a clear pathway for domestic abusers to relinquish firearms
- Investing in community violence intervention
- Requiring people subject to domestic violence protection orders to turn in their firearms
- Ban assault weapons, bump stocks, and high-capacity magazines