Born and raised in Washington, D.C., currently living in Philadelphia, Megan is focused on How we use storytelling and the sharing of life expriences to effect real change

Why is gun violence in Philly ‘exploding’ when solutions exist?

There was a shooting in Philadelphia every six hours in 2018. Jim MacMillan contends that didn’t have to be.

“We know how to stop gun violence,” MacMillan, founder of IBGVR.org, the Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting, said Saturday at a conference designed to spread the word on what he and others contend are effective deterrents.

Continue reading The Philadelphia Inquirer here, courtesy of Erin Arvedlund.

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