22-05-2025
Illinois advocates push for gun violence prevention
Gun violence prevention advocates and victims' families gathered under the Illinois Capitol rotunda to demand safety and transparency.
Lawmakers have filed few bills, like the Safe at Home bill to require gun owners to store guns in locked containers to prevent kids from getting to them. Another is the Homicide Data Transparency Act, requiring police departments to publish online how many homicides were solved every four months.
Data from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows on averagemore than 1,300 people die from gun violence in Illinois every year, and 80% of those deaths are homicides.
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