by John Crump AmmoLand
The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting (PCGVR) is funding a new organization for anti-gun journalists to collaborate and share information.
The organization is called the Association of Gun Violence Reporters (AGVR). It is founded by Kaitlin Washburn of the Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia-based independent journalist Sammy Caiola, Jennifer Mascia of the Trace, and Abené Clayton of the Guardian. The project aims to cover guns as a “systemic problem” and shift public perception about firearms.
“Covering gun violence can be overwhelming and isolating,” Caiola said. “It’s a complex topic that touches on policy, social science, trauma, the criminal justice system and a hundred other things. We wanted to give reporters who work on this beat, even just occasionally, a place to ask questions, seek mentorship, and release stress. We’re excited to see who comes to us and how we can lift up their work.”
The program will offer training, resources, collaboration opportunities, and mentorships to journalists reporting on “gun violence.” This program is just one of the programs across the country looking to use media coverage to push for political change on guns by trying to change the minds of Americans.
One of the founders, Jennifer Mascia, is from The Trace, which is an Everytown-linked media organization whose goal is to push the propaganda of anti-gun organizations. The Trace is well-funded, and most of its reporters are from Ivy League schools. The reporting has targeted gun rights groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and recently ran a hit piece on Gun Owners of America’s (GOA) G.O.A.L.S event.
Sammy Caiola is a journalist who used to work for WHYY, a public radio station serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. She covered “gun violence” for National Public Radio (NPR). Ms. Caiola has made a career out of attacking the gun world and demonizing the Second Amendment.
Abené Clayton works on The Guardian’s Guns and Lies in America project. The Guardian is a left-leaning UK-based news organization. Its Guns and Lies in America project is the UK-based newspaper’s take on guns in the United States. As one can imagine, the coverage is left-leaning and doesn’t cover topics such as the defensive usage of firearms.
Kaitlin Washburn has made a career of anti-gun reporting. She has written anti-gun articles for multiple papers across the country. Ms. Washburn also hosts webinars for other reporters to teach them how to report on firearms. Her goal is to broaden reporting on “gun violence” and to prove that the “rolling back” of gun laws makes us less safe. She believes that “firearm violence poses one of the greatest threats to the health and well-being of communities across the country.”
The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting is the organization that is funding the program. A significant monetary contributor to the organization is the City of Philadelphia. This chain of money means that the funds that the City of Philadelphia gives to PCGVR could be redirected to AGVR to train journalists on how to shape the gun narrative in America.
The organization is recruiting reporters through a link to a Google document. They ask any journalist who wants to join to fill out the form. This requirement is mostly to vet those wishing to join the group to ensure they are not pro-liberty journalists.
Right now, the anti-gun side is outspending the pro-freedom side of the equation. More organizations are popping up funded by anti-gun billionaires such as Michael Bloomberg. It will take a Herculean task to push back against the narratives that will be pushed by groups such as the AGVR.
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Gun violence will be curbed by disarming liberals. You’re like the dogs barking up the wrong tree.
As usual, these fools know nothing about guns while pretending they know everything about guns. They can’t even know how to define an assault weapon except by saying it looks and works like an M-16 (which is already illegal for civilians without an ATF permit). Preserve us from zealots!
You could take action this very day. Simply make sure not to carry. Then when a weapon gets shoved in your face just do what you are told to do and everything will be fine. Works every time, no failures. Really, try it out for yourself.
The “systematic problem” is the “adult children”, who refuse to be accountable for their actions, and believe they’re somehow entitled to never feel offended in life! Guns were never the problem, or the solution, as video games and visual media tend to portray, and the ” adult children” can’t sort fantasy from reality, so follow the examples presented! The psychotropic drug “solution” so often resorted to by parents who don’t want to grow up so they can parent their offspring properly, only add to the problems. Americans have had guns in their homes since the earliest colonists! The problem of mass shootings has only been occurring in the past 60 or so yrs, so WHAT suddenly changed then? That was when Yhwh God was kicked out of our schools, and when disciplining children went out the window, as well.
If these crazies declare guns are a problem since they are used as a weapon to kill and harm, then they should keep stats on hammers, axes, screw drivers, pipes, knives and etc. They all are involved in killings and harm. These block head morons trying to push guns are bad agenda oddly forget it is the person using the object is the true villain. Document the person’s bio and mental state and you will find they, not the stable gun owner, need attention. We need to track the user’s ethnicity, mental state, political position, immigration standing, violent history, social standing in community, and job history. Now with these stats professionals can maybe come up with solutions to address the people that tend to kill people with weapons.
The left does its best to give people the impression that gun owners are always violent people. My gun is for one purpose only – for self-defense if and when it’s necessary. I’ve never fired my weapon off the range, and sincerely hope I never need to. But if an occasion arises in which I or a loved one is threatened, I know that I can deal with that threat. I will never use my weapon to threaten another, to hold up a store, or to make others uncomfortable. But I will not let an attacker take advantage or harm my family because reporters write false stories about guns and their owners.
Hey PCGVR, you need to focus on car violence, since about 55% more 0 to14 year olds are killed by vehicle accidents than violent guns. And non-violent guns are used over 90 times as much to save lives than to take them…around 2.5 million times in 2022.