Events & News of Interest
2021 Election is a Big Win for Gun Free Zones
Washington CeaseFire’s Gun-Free Zone initiative was enthusiastically supported by several victorious candidates in the November, 2021 election. Bruce Harrell, as the new mayor, has indicated that he plans to continue to support the program, which has the imprimatur...
Day of Remembrance
On October 31, a gorgeous, sun-drenched afternoon, Washington CeaseFire celebrated our 24th annual daffodil planting to commemorate victims of gun violence. Washington CeaseFire President Larry Wechsler and Vice President Robert Silber spoke on the importance of the...
Annual 5k Run/Walk
To those of you who participated in our 5K event, Thank You! Whether you walked, ran, crawled, showed up to schmooze, or bought a "virtual" ticket, you made the event a success and it was great to see so many people "walking-the-walk" for gun violence prevention....
Update: 2020 Month of Remembrance Gallery
For over two decades, Washington CeaseFire Board members and volunteers have planted daffodil bulbs in autumn to commemorate those who have been injured, or lost their lives, due to firearms. While we usually post pictures of the planting event on our web page and...
Message from the Board – March, 2021
2020, the year during which COVID -19 took three hundred thousand American lives, was also the deadliest to date for victims of firearm injury. 43444 people died from bullet wounds in the US in 2020, a 10 % increase from 2019 according to the Gun Violence...
President’s Note
Welcome to 2021! This time around, I think we would all agree that “Happy New Year” is more than a simple platitude. We say goodbye to a year unlike any other; a year that brought us a pandemic, lockdowns, school closures, record unemployment, and more than our fair...