Gun Control Laws
This type of law requires background checks for all gun sales, including private sales.
What is universal background checks?
This type of community program aims to intervene in high-risk neighborhoods by providing resources and support to at-risk individuals.
What is a community-based violence intervention program?
This type of mental health intervention aims to provide counseling and support to individuals experiencing trauma or emotional distress related to gun violence.
What is trauma-informed care or counseling services?
The best solutions to prepare students for a gun violence emergency?
What is Implementing enforced lockdown drills to have students prepared for any future gun violence emergency.
Social media doesn’t have an impact on the viewing of gun violence.
What is false?
This law prohibits the sale of certain types of firearms, such as assault weapons.
What is an assault weapons ban?
This initiative involves community members partnering with law enforcement to address and prevent gun violence.
What is community policing or neighborhood watch programs?
This program trains law enforcement officers and first responders to recognize and respond to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis.
What is Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training?
Where does violence stem from?
What is Bad parenting, violent popular culture, mental illness, unhealthy school climates, and the availability of firearms
Proper way to secure firearms at home.
A firearm safety device and a locking storage container is the best way to keep an unloaded gun away from children.
This term refers to the legal process by which a court determines if a person is eligible to possess firearms.
What is a firearms licensing or permitting system?
This program seeks to provide job training, education, and employment opportunities to individuals at risk of involvement in gun violence.
What is a violence prevention through economic opportunity program?
This approach to mental health intervention involves integrating mental health services into primary care settings to improve access and reduce stigma.
What is integrated or collaborative care?
influences students to see guns as entertainment instead of their dangerous aspect.
What is war video games.
Parents teaching their kids about gun safety.
What is Implementing a set of rules on what your child should not touch if a firearm is present at home.
This law allows law enforcement or family members to petition a court to remove firearms from individuals deemed to be a risk to themselves or others.
What is an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) or Red Flag Law?
This grassroots movement organizes marches, rallies, and advocacy campaigns to raise awareness and promote action on gun violence prevention.
What is the gun violence prevention movement or March for Our Lives?
This organization advocates for policies and programs that address the intersection of mental health and gun violence prevention.
What is the Mental Health and Gun Violence Prevention Coalition or similar advocacy groups?
Students are taught to know what they’re supposed to do during a lockdown but not why they should do it.
What is true?
Improving school security.
What is Implementing indoor bullet proof structures in classrooms to protect students from getting harmed AND Monitoring school entrances and exits to keep students and staff safe from anyone else who enters the building.
This federal law prohibits certain individuals, such as convicted felons and those with domestic violence restraining orders, from possessing firearms.
What is the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act or Federal Firearms Prohibition?
This program focuses on mentoring and supporting youth to steer them away from involvement in gun violence and crime.
What is a youth mentoring or youth diversion program?
This mental health intervention aims to identify and provide support to individuals who may be at risk of harming themselves or others due to mental illness.
What is early intervention or psychiatric crisis response?
Benefits of Gun violence education for students.
What is Educate students why lockdown drills, or learning about gun violence is important for everyone to know, not just to discuss what they have to do, but why they learn it for future gun violence emergencies.
Reducing Gun Violence at home.
What is A firearm safety device and a locking storage container is the best way to keep an unloaded gun away from children.