Everytown for Gun Safety is distributing $1.5 million to a select collection of local nonprofit groups working to stop gun violence in their areas before it happens, Everytown officials tell ABC News.
"There are more guns now than there were last year and the year before that -- and we know that when there are more guns, there's more violence," said Michael-Sean Spence, Everytown's director of community safety initiatives. "So we have to work and we have to support community leaders who are doing this work and have been doing this work for decades."
There have been more than 400 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Nearly 700 mass shooting were recorded by the archive in 2021. "Of course, those are tragic incidents that immediately capture the zeitgeist, but we can't forget the fact that these same community-based violence intervention programs are also showing up to those scenes," Spence said. "And they're also providing direct support to the families impacted by these mass shootings. They're staying on the scene for weeks at a time preventing additional violence from occurring.
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