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Stop Handgun Violence
Stop Handgun Violence is a Boston, Massachusetts-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to reduce and prevent injuries and deaths caused by firearms in the United States. The group advocates personal responsibility, public awareness, stronger legislation, increased gun manufacturer responsibility, and strict law enforcement.〔“Stop Handgun Violence,” in Idealist.org, http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Org/19594-287.〕
Stop Handgun Violence was founded in 1995 by Boston developer John Rosenthal with Michael Kennedy, son of assassinated former U.S. attorney general and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy.〔“Top 100: John Rosenthal Developer/Crusader,” in Real Estate Bisnow, March 3, 2010. http://www.bisnow.com/boston_commercial_real_estate_news_story.php?p=7379.〕 Rosenthal says that he was inspired to cofound the group when “I learned that 15 kids under 19 died every day in this country from the only consumer product in America that is not regulated.”〔“Big Billboard’s Anti-Violence Message to be Broadened,” by Elizabeth Mehren, in the Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2001. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/15/news/mn-57469.〕 Rosenthal, President of the real estate development firm Meredith Management, has a history of social activism. He led protests against nuclear proliferation in the 1970s, launched the non-profit Friends of Boston’s Homeless in the 1980s, founded Stop Handgun Violence in 1995, cofounded Common Sense About Kids and Guns in 1999, and cofounded the American Hunters and Shooters Association in 2005.〔“John Rosenthal: A Laid-Back Social Activist Developer Plans a Landmark Project Over the Pike,” by Michelle Hillman, in Boston Business Journal, May 18, 2007. http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/05/21/story5.html.〕 Stop Handgun Violence has shown a particular concern with the ease with which firearms can be purchased at gun shows. It is also concerned about how easily children,〔“How Kids Get Guns,” by Katy Abel, in FamilyEducation.com, http://life.familyeducation.com/violence/safety/36402.html.〕 the mentally ill,〔“Gun Control Laws Concerning the Mentally Ill Are Faulted,” by Fox Butterfield, in the New York Times, January 14, 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/us/gun-control-laws-concerning-the-mentally-ill-are-faulted.html?pagewanted=1.〕 felons, and potential terrorists〔“Brady Campaign Anti-gun Group Says Gun Laws in Massachusetts Are Not Tough Enough,” by Patrick Johnson, in Masslive.com, February 22, 2010. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/anti-gun_group_says_gun_laws_i.html.〕 can gain access to firearms.
==Public awareness==
Stop Handgun Violence has implemented several media and public awareness campaigns, the centerpiece of which is America’s largest billboard, located on the Massachusetts Turnpike adjacent to Fenway Park in Boston.〔“Gun Control Message Is Put Across,” by Michael Levenson, in the Boston Globe, July 10, 2007. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/10/gun_control_message_is_put_across/.〕 In 2008, the 252-foot billboard, which Rosenthal owns,〔“Straight Shooter,” by Michael Blanding, in the Boston Globe, February 5, 2006. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/02/05/straight_shooter/.〕 displayed the message “We Sell Guns! Criminals and Terrorists Welcome, No ID or Background Check Required,” an ironic reference to the ease of buying firearms at gun shows.〔“We’ Sell Guns! Criminals and Terrorists Welcome,’” by Anna Schecter, on ABC News, August 29, 2008. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5685646&page=1. See also “Stop Handgun Violence – We Sell Guns – Print, USA,” in Adland.tv, August 24, 2008. http://adland.tv/ooh/stop-handgun-violence-we-sell-guns-print-usa.〕 Previous displays, many designed by the Modernista! ad agency in Boston, have held messages such as “You Shoot. Your Family Pays” and a fake ransom demand, “We Have Your President and Congress – NRA.”〔(Stop Handgun Violence - a set on Flickr )〕The billboard is required to be removed by the current owner of the property no later than March of 2015.〔(Gun control group required to move billboard along Pike )〕 Other billboards have displayed photos of children who have been killed by gunfire.〔
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