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Georgia Senator Rev. Raphael Warnock and fellow lawmakers, including Georgia Congresswoman Nikema Williams, recently penned a letter to the Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding the reversal of policy changes that are weakening gun violence prevention efforts and leaving Americans less safe.
“Routine gun violence should not be accepted as a fact of life, but I worry this administration’s efforts to dismantle investments in gun violence prevention will leave our communities less safe,” Warnock told The Atlanta Voice.
The letter opened with this statement:
We write in service of our shared duty to keep all Americans safe from gun violence. By weakening programs that protect our communities from illegal firearms and stripping federal funding for violence intervention and prevention programs, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policies risk undoing crucial progress in mitigating the root causes of gun violence.
In September 2025, Warnock hosted a gun violence prevention panel in Washington, D.C. The panel included Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, and former White House Office of Gun Violence deputy director Greg Jackson.
The letter used the reduction of gun violence in Baltimore as an example of how the programs that have faced reductions in funding helped keep the community safer.
Warnock’s home state of Georgia has also been affected by $3 million in cuts to DOJ grant funding, nearly $1 million of which was dedicated to youth violence intervention. There were 2,070 gun deaths in Georgia in 2023, according to data from a study done by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 129 of those deaths were of children ages 1-17.
Another line of the letter states: Americans of all political beliefs agree that we have lost too many lives to mass shootings and violent crimes in our country.
“That is why I’m demanding the administration reverse course on these changes so we can get back to work saving lives,” Warnock said.
A copy of the letter can be found HERE.
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