NNEDV Honors the Legacy of James S. Brady

August 4, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: NNEDV Communications Team (Communications@NNEDV.org)

Washington, DC – The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) joins all of America in honoring the legacy of James S. Brady, who turned a tragic 1981 act of workplace violence into a pivotal national movement. “Each one of us owes an incredible debt of gratitude to James Brady for his brilliant, fearless, and insistent championing of sensible gun safety measures,” said Kim Gandy, NNEDV President & CEO.

The critical intersection between James Brady’s work to stem gun violence and NNEDV’s advocacy to prevent women from dying at the hands of domestic violence abusers is highlighted by appalling statistics. Women in the United States are 11 times more likely than women in other highly developed nations to be killed with firearms. In more than half of U.S. women’s homicides, a firearm was the murderer’s weapon of choice. And shockingly, more than three times as many women in the U. S. are killed by current or former husbands’ and boyfriends’ guns than are killed by any combination of strangers’ guns, knives, or other weapons.

NNEDV honors James Brady’s passionate campaign to protect all of us – women and men in their homes and at labor, children and young people in their classrooms, everyday people engaged in worship and recreation — from the horror of gun violence. The impact of James Brady’s work is monumental, and his legacy is everlasting.

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The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) represents the 56 state and U.S. territorial coalitions against domestic violence. NNEDV is a social change organization working to create a social, political, and economic environment in which domestic violence no longer exists. NNEDV works to make domestic violence a national priority, change the way society responds to domestic violence, and strengthen domestic violence advocacy at every level.