Opinion: More to do on gun violence prevention in CT

CT Mirror – Friday, June 26, 2026
By Earl Bloodworth

Earl Bloodworth is the Executive Director of CT Against Gun Violence (CAGV).

When we talk about gun violence in Connecticut, we often talk about it in numbers.

We count the shell casings left on a New Haven street corner, the number of illegal firearms recovered by police, or the roll-call votes in the General Assembly.

But gun violence does not exist in a vacuum. Like a rock thrown into a pond, its ripples reverberate far beyond a single tragic night. While a headline captures the finality of a death, the living are left to carry a trauma that is constant, heavy, and deeply unfair.

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