Letter to the Editor by GAGV Member Margaret Heldring for the Seattle Times

Commentary by GAGV Member Jane Weiss for The Herald based in Everett and Snohomish County, WA

Published February 28, 2024

Article in Seattle’sChild by GAGV Vice Chair and Legislative Committee Co-Chair Jennifer Dolan-Waldman

Published February 19, 2024

Article in Seattle’sChild by GAGV Vice Chair and Legislative Committee Co-Chair Jennifer Dolan-Waldman

Published November 28, 2023

Letter to the Editor by GAGV Member Margaret Heldring for the Seattle Times

Published April 14, 2023

Letter to the Editor by GAGV Member Jennifer Dolan-Waldman for The Seattle Times

Published March 9, 2023

Article in Seattle’sChild by Cheryl Murfin | Photo courtesy: Alliance for Gun Responsibility

Published February 27, 2023

Article in Seattle’sChild by Cheryl Murfin

Published January 4, 2023

Article in Seattle’sChild by Jennifer Dolan-Waldman (Vice Chair of Grandmothers)

Published December 2, 2022

Letter to the Editor by Margaret Heldring (Acting Chair, Grandmothers)

Published November 14, 2022

The gathering is an act of remembrance for all the victims of gun violence – those who have died, who have been injured, who have been mentally or emotionally devastated and those left behind by gun death.

Published October 25, 2022

Assault Weapons Ban PSA produced by the organization March Fourth born two days after a mass shooting on 7/4/22 in Highland Park, IL.

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence is a partner in the fight to federally ban assault weapons.

Published September 9, 2022

Op-Ed Renée Hopkins & GAGV Acting Chair Margy Heldring

Going back to school shouldn’t mean going back to the fear of school shootings, but that is the reality our children and grandchildren are facing as this new school year begins.

Published August, 2022

Debbie McDonald - Guest to Seattle’s Child &
Grandmothers Against Gun Violence Member

Buffalo, Laguna Woods, Uvalde. These are names we will remember, at least for a while. Sadly, most of the names of cities where mass shootings (defined as four or more people shot) or other gun violence occur we do not remember. We never even hear them.

Published June, 2022

Debbie McDonald - Guest to Seattle’s Child &
Grandmothers Against Gun Violence Member

Have we finally reached the tipping point that stops gun violence in America?

I sat down to write this 21 days after a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York; 20 days after a mass shooting in Laguna Woods, California; 11 days after a mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas; and one day after a mass shooting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In that same three-week timeframe there were 32 other mass shootings that you probably didn’t hear about.

Published May, 2022

By Cheryl Murfin

“This cannot be what normal looks like in America.”

Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s tweet May 24 captured well the shock and sadness of parents across Washington and around the world as they wrestled with the news of yet another school shooting. The slaughter of 19 students and educators at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX caused numerous Washington leaders and local anti-gun violence organizations to call out Congress for it’s failure to pass greater restrictions on gun and ammunition access in America.

Published May 30, 2022

Naomi Ishisaka - Seattle Times columnist

After Sandy Hook nearly 10 years ago, I was certain that it would be a turning point for gun violence prevention in this country.

Surely, our politicians would not simply offer “thoughts and prayers” when 20 elementary school children and six adults are gunned down in a place where they should find sanctuary?

I was so wrong.

Published February 8, 2022

Casey Martin - KUOW

Over the weekend, there were at least three shootings around Seattle that left one person dead and another injured.

Now gun violence prevention advocates want city leaders to act before 2022 sets a new record for gun deaths in Seattle.

Published January 13, 2021

Op-Ed GAGV Past Chair Margy Heldring

Re: “Ban high-capacity magazines and assault weapons” [Jan. 4, Opinion]:

Our Washington state Legislature convened Monday. Its agenda includes a ban on high-capacity magazines. This has come before the legislature for several years and consistently failed.

Published July 30, 2021

Op-Ed GAGV Co-Chair Margy Heldring

Summer days in Seattle are replete with sunshine, dazzling mountains, sunsets to savor, and, sadly, gun violence. This past week, a Seattle Times headline read “Shootings across Seattle leave 4 dead, 7 injured since Sunday” [July 26, Northwest].

Published July 29, 2021

Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream

GAGV Co-Chair Margy Heldring appeared in a segment of this episode . To watch the episode, click the link below, click the play button on the video, and select your cable provider (e.g. Xfinity). Margy appears around the 20 minute mark.

Published July 1, 2021

Daniel Beekman and Paul Roberts - Seattle Times

Seattle’s mayoral candidates are grappling with questions about gun violence and policing amid a spate of shootings, including shots fired at one candidate last weekend outside his home. And they’re debating how to help the city’s economy — downtown and elsewhere — recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published December 14, 2019

Casey Martin - KUOW

Days after a deadly shooting in New Jersey, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson proposed three new pieces of gun legislation to the state legislature.

Published May 28, 2019

Nozomi Kurioka - The Daily

Just days after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in which 20 school children and six staff members were killed, Washington grandmother Margaret Heldring was sitting down to have dinner with three of her friends.

“We realized at that moment, we were all grandmothers of six-year-olds,” she said. “And in the course of that conversation popped the idea: Grandmothers Against Gun Violence.”

Published June 3, 2019

Op-Ed GAGV Legislative Co-Chair Jennifer Dolan-Waldman

Daily reports tell of the public-health issue related to the spread of measles. Of greater concern to me is the number of deaths and injuries due to the other public-health crisis that we face: gun violence. The Virginia Beach shooting Friday killed 12, critically injured four, and traumatized co-workers, family and friends for a lifetime.

Published Fall 2017

Susan Brandzel - 3rd Act Magazine

When people think of the word “grandmother,” certain common associations come to mind: wise, nurturing, retired. But a group of Seattle area grandmothers have added another important term to that list: activist.