Kris Brown, president of D.C.-based Brady, announced a new “Free America from Gun Violence” culture change campaign, which aims to harness the power of creative ad agencies to change the cultural narrative about guns in America.
According to a release, the campaign’s goal is to shift the existing cultural narrative, from viewing firearms as glamorized instruments of personal safety and patriotism, to a more balanced view that highlights the risks, dangers and consequences of these deadly weapons. To change this narrative, influenced by decades of National Rifle Association (NRA) propaganda, Brady aims to partner with advertising and media companies to develop new content to achieve this, including commercials and digital advertisements.
Brown said that America and many other nations “have successfully tackled public health challenges through creative culture change efforts, from smoking to seat belts to drunk driving.
“Together, we will shift the dominant cultural narrative – from viewing guns as instruments of personal safety and freedom that must not be regulated in any way, to a more balanced view that guns are inherently dangerous and must be managed more responsibly like other dangerous products.”
According to a release, the new partnered content “will revolve around three pillars: challenging the gun industry’s lies about firearms; highlighting the importance of safe storage practices in preventing “family fire;” and creating the political pressure needed to enact common-sense legislative change.
“The campaign is the latest in Brady’s efforts to change the culture around gun violence in the U.S. Last month, as part of its “ShowYourSafety” campaign, Brady organized a White House roundtable featuring nearly two dozen actors, directors and showrunners about the role Hollywood can play in combating the gun violence epidemic. Brady’s “End Family Fire” campaign uses public service announcements to reach gun-owning households to promote safe storage practices. ThisIsOurLane, Brady’s physician-led program, is mobilizing health practitioners to address gun violence as a public health crisis.”
According to Wikipedia, Brady: United Against Gun Violence (formerly “Handgun Control, Inc”., the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control and against gun violence, states Wikipedia. It is named after former White House Press Secretary James “Jim” Brady, who was permanently disabled and later died in 2014 as a result of the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt of 1981, and his wife Sarah Brady, who was a chairwoman of the organization from 1989 until her death in 2015.
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