Georgians deserve safe communities. No one should have to worry about losing a child, a parent, a friend to gun violence. Yet in our state, one person dies from gun violence every six hours—someone’s mother, someone’s child, someone’s loved one. More than half of these deaths are suicides, and gun homicide has a hugely disproportionate racial impact, with Black men at the highest risk of being killed.
Georgia has some of the weakest gun laws in the country, and we are all paying the price. But we can reduce the devastating impact of gun violence in Georgia by writing laws that enable responsible ownership and protect our communities from harm.
As representative of State House District 45, I will work to:
Mandate background checks and waiting periods, closing gun show and private sale loopholes.
Require safe storage and gun locks, which keep firearms out of the hands of children and those at high risk.
Allow judges to remove firearms from persons deemed at high risk to themselves or others, including domestic abusers.
Support access to mental health counseling for students and adults.
Create community violence intervention and prevention programs to address gun violence as a public health crisis.