AJR38,,112023 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 38 May 8, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives Andraca, Stubbs, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Baldeh, Bare, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Donovan, Drake, Emerson, Goyke, Haywood, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, McGuire, Moore Omokunde, Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Subeck and Vining, cosponsored by Senators L. Johnson, Carpenter, Roys, Spreitzer, Agard, Larson, Hesselbein, Smith and Taylor. Referred to Committee on Rules.
AJR38,,22Relating to: proclaiming June 2, 2023, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Wisconsin. AJR38,,33Whereas, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not unlimited and allows for reasonable restrictions on firearms, including who can have firearms and under what conditions, where firearms can be carried, and what types of firearms are permissible; and AJR38,,44Whereas, firearms have become the number one cause of death for children in the United States and Wisconsin; and AJR38,,55Whereas, on average, every day in the United States approximately 316 people are injured or killed with guns in murders, assaults, suicides, and accidents; and AJR38,,66Whereas, in Wisconsin, approximately 600 men, women, and children are killed with guns each year, and 70 percent of whom die as a result of suicide by firearm; and AJR38,,77Whereas, in Wisconsin, over 1,000 people are wounded each year by guns; and AJR38,,88Whereas, gun deaths devastate families in urban, rural, and suburban areas; and AJR38,,99Whereas, while Wisconsin’s urban areas are disproportionately affected by gun homicide, the state’s less populated areas experience greater rates of gun suicide; and AJR38,,1010Whereas, gun violence costs our country $557.2 billion in combined direct and indirect expenses annually; and AJR38,,1111Whereas, studies show that gun safety laws save lives and are associated with lower firearm death rates; and AJR38,,1212Whereas, Wisconsin has a long tradition of responsible gun ownership, safe gun usage, and training to hunt with firearms; now, therefore, be it AJR38,,1313Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the legislature hereby proclaims June 2, 2023, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Wisconsin.
