Charity Spotlight: Everytown for Gun Safety

After a gunman opened re during a Louisiana screening of her comedy “Trainwreck,” killing two people and injuring nine, Amy Schumer began advocating for stricter gun laws and safer communities. “Ending gun violence is important to me because I’m a human being who reads the news,” she says.

For nearly a decade, Schumer’s been working closely with Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonpro t whose focus is ending gun violence by regulating who can buy guns. The group aims to build awareness — especially with policymakers — about e ective ways to lower gun violence rates. Everytown has more than million supporters and has helped to pass hundreds of gun safety laws.

And Schumer isn’t just writing a check; she’s personally involved in grassroots e orts, speaking at and hosting events to elevate the stories of survivors and the families of victims. When she got married in , she asked for donations to Everytown in lieu of gifts.

“There is so much work to be done,” she says. “The gun lobby wants us to be hopeless. They want to deceive us to believe that gun laws won’t make a di erence. Instead, we need every person to use their voice to demand action and vote those out who fail to do so.”

Schumer was activated after learning the Lafayette movie theater shooter was “not prohibited from having guns despite being a person with a dangerous criminal history.” She dedicated a chapter in her memoir, “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo,” to the two women — Mayci Breaux, , and Jillian Johnson, — who were killed.

“When I see that yet another American or several Americans were killed senselessly and avoidably by guns,” she wrote, “all I can think is e-fucking-nough. Period.”