Gun Violence Prevention
Like communities across the country, Western Pennsylvania is facing a gun violence epidemic. We need an assault weapons ban, expanded background checks, end protections for corporate gun manufacturers and bold gun-safety legislation to stop the mass shootings that have become all too common across schools, churches, stores and cities across America. But in communities like ours, gun violence even more often means the widespread violence that happens in our streets with handguns. That violence is rooted in poverty, rooted in communities that have gone underfunded and ignored for too long. We need an investment in our schools, after-school programs, and wrap-around services. We need an investment in jobs and higher wages, so people have a choice in shaping their future. Gun violence cannot be addressed in isolation, it’s rooted in every social service funding we cut and must be combatted at that level too.
More on Gun Violence Prevention
**For Immediate Release**
Kyla Gill, Kyla.Gill@mail.house.gov
Vaibhav Vijay, Vaibhav.Vijay@mail.house.gov
Congresswoman Summer Lee Joins Gun Violence Prevention Tour Alongside the Pittsburgh Steelers, Highlighting 44% Drop in Gun Violence and Urging Continued Action
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
Contact: Vaibhav.Vijay@mail.house.gov | 771.215.7243
Kyla.Gill@mail.house.gov | 412.841.7913
Rep. Summer Lee Leads 20 Colleagues in Letter to CDC Urging Proper Assessment of Gun Violence
FACT SHEET: Rep. Summer Lee Announces Over $1 Billion Federal Dollars Delivered to Western PA, Celebrating Unprecedented Milestone
For Immediate Release
September 13, 2023
Contact: Emilia.Rowland@mail.house.gov
Summer Lee, Bob Casey Co-Lead Introduction of Bicameral Coalition Introduce Disarm Hate Act
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) joined Congressman Maxwell Frost (FL-10), Tennassee State Representative Justin Jones, and a host of young activists and leaders for a press conference outside the Capitol on Wednesday to call for gun control and an end to "attacks on democracy.
(Washington, DC) – Today, Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) released the following statement as the trial for the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history begins starting with jury selection that is expected to take several weeks:
"Republicans want to control what books you read, what history you learn, how you identify, who you can love, They want to control everything except that which could prevent mass preventable trauma and murder of our children."