Ceasefire Oregon

10/17/2025

INDIVISIBLE supports an impressive range of laws and policies designed to reduce gun violence. We know this is a priority for Ceasefire Oregon supporters, so we’ve compiled a list of Indivisible’s positions on key firearm-related laws and policies. As you consider which parties and candidates to support, we encourage you to review their positions on gun violence prevention — and to stand behind those who champion strong, effective gun laws.

Posted on October 17, 2025 Indivisible Supports Strong, Effective Laws To Reduce Firearm Violence By Penny Okamoto, Executive Director of Ceasefire Oregon Ceasefire Oregon Education Foundation and the Ceasefire Oregon Action Fund (PAC) applaud Indivisible’s work to counter the Trump administration...

09/18/2025

Matthew Silverstone was critically injured in the Evergreen shooting in Colorado last week. Our hearts are with the entire community. Btw, THIS is what a real hero is.

09/18/2025

The shooter of 4 Pennsylvania police officers stalked a young woman at her home and was seen on the home camera with an AR 15 before he shot 4 PA police officers, killing three and wounding a fourth. https://www.wgal.com/.../york-pennsylvania.../67903209
Pennsylvania does not have an ERPO or "red flag" law.
Our hearts are with the families and entire police force as well as the young woman and her family. This mass shooting is a devastating blow to the entire community. If you know people who are involved, please reach out to them to let them know you are there for them. Offer to bring food, drive relatives to or from the airport, or take care of their pets. Talk to your PA legislators about the need for ERPOs and to do more to prevent gun violence by preventing violence against women.

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09/16/2025

Taxpayers are carrying the huge financial burden of gun violence in additional to the emotional burden. An Illinois surgeon has a plan to change that and, in doing so, cut the rates of gun violence.

Dr. Anthony Douglas is determined to compel the gun industry to fund victim restitution in Illinois — with national implications.

09/10/2025

In 2023, Charlie Kirk stated that gun deaths are worth the cost to have a 2nd Amendment. He also said gun violence can be reduced by having fathers at home.

He believed in the marketing scams of pro-shooting groups and the arms industry.

Now his own children will live in a home without a father.

Our genuine sympathies to Charlie Kirk's family and friends. We urge his followers to consider Kirk's words and ask if his widow and children are better off in a country where the 2A has been turned into a marketing tool, chidlren are shot at schools, and yet another family has lost a father.

The conservative founder of Turning Point USA made the comments following a mass shooting in Nashville last week that resulted in six deaths.

09/10/2025

This is such a heart breaking story. Our deepest sympathies are with the surviving family, as well as their friends and community.

We do not know the details of this shooting but we want to remind people of Oregon's Extreme Risk Protection Order law that allows law enforcment to temporarily disarm people who are in crisis.

Additionally, the Dougy Center is a great place to help kids who are grieving.

Police are calling the weekend shootings a “double murder-su***de.”

09/06/2025

09/05/2025

Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America have launched gun training programs ($60 - $100) and are encouraging people to buy guns.

Here’s my post about this desertion of safety and sanity. For some, your loyalties will be challenged. Others might look to excuse organizations you support. But I hope all of you will read this entire post and ask why Everytown did not try other ways. Why did they capitulate to the arms lobby?

Here’s my post:

Everytown’s “TrainSMART” Program Puts Its Credibility at Risk as Well as People’s Lives

Everytown for Gun Safety built its reputation by telling Americans the truth: fi****ms in homes and communities make people less safe. Now, with its new “TrainSMART” program — a $60-$100 course for gun owners, launching today— the organization is veering into dangerous territory.

By marketing brief training sessions as a pathway to “safe” gun ownership, Everytown is sending a message that contradicts decades of research. Study after study shows that bringing a gun into the home increases the risk of homicide, su***de, and unintentional shootings. Gunshot wounds are the leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens and a leading cause of death for pregnant and perinatal people. No credible evidence shows that a short safety course neutralizes those risks.

Everytown’s decision is as illogical as if the American Lung Association promoted va**ng as a “safe” way to smoke. Not every vaper gets lung disease, but enough do to make va**ng a public-health crisis. Likewise, not every household with a gun experiences violence, but the risks rise sharply compared with homes without guns.

By lending its name to a training business, Everytown risks normalizing the very behavior it has long warned against: keeping guns in homes, cars, and communities. The organization is, in effect, lulling the public into a false sense of security — that a few hours of instruction and a promise to lock up guns will make ownership completely safe.

If Everytown wants to reach gun owners, it could instead double down on its core mission: share facts about the dangers of fi****ms, teach de-escalation and non-lethal self-defense, and invest in su***de-prevention education. Rather than training people to use guns, it should help them question whether they really need one — and provide safer alternatives.

One can only assume that Everytown is attempting to expand its financial reach into the gun owning community. Or perhaps Mr. Bloomberg is feeling pressure from the current administration to back off of the arms industry.

At a moment when public-health institutions and research are under attack, Everytown & Moms Demand Action are dumbing down and kowtowing to the Trump-supported arms industry. They are risking decades of hard-won trust by rescinding its messaging on facts about the single deadliest product in American homes.

Common sense shows that guns aren’t making the US safer. The US has more than 400 million guns in civilian hands. If guns made us safer, we would be a crime free haven.

Former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger famously called the gun lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment "one of the greatest pieces of fraud on the American people". He was right. My question is: are Everytown, Moms, & Mr. Bloomberg defrauding the US now or are they suffering from coercion from the US government?

The image included in this post is a screenshot from TrainSmart explaining how Everytown will help you pick out a gun — as long as you pay for their class that explains how to choose a gun.

Everytown and Moms just gave up on saving kids.