John Rosenthal is the President of Meredith Management. He is a successful real estate developer and manager in Massachusetts who has distinguished himself in his ability to balance corporate and individual responsibility. In addition to owning a large portfolio of residential and commercial properties he also founded two successful non-profit corporations: Friends of Boston’s Homeless and Stop Handgun Violence.

John founded the Friends of Boston’s Homeless in 1987. The Friends is a partnership with the City of Boston, has raised over $20,000,000, serves 800 people every night and helps transition more than 150 formerly homeless men and women in Boston beyond shelter with housing and full-time jobs each year.

In October 1995, as a gun owner, recreational Trap Shooter and businessperson John founded Stop Handgun Violence. The organization has been symbolized by a large 252 feet long and 20 feet high biilboard that he built on the side of a parking garage that he owns along the Massachusetts Turnpike near Boston’s Fenway Park. The billboard campaign has dramatically communicated the extent of the national gun violence problem as well as practical solutions and need for effective uniform national gun laws and initiatives.

Stop Handgun Violence was the lead advocate for Massachusetts enacting the most comprehensive gun laws and first in the nation consumer protection regulations for firearms and MA is among the top three states with the lowest firearm fatality rate (3.2 per vs. 10.6 per 100,000 popoulation national average) in the United States.

In 2005 John co-founded a new membership organization called American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA). AHSA is an alternative membership organization to the NRA for moderate gun owners who care about gun rights as well as gun safety, conservation and wildlife habitat and support for law enforcement.

Blog Entries by John Rosenthal

Water is Life

Posted March 30, 2009 | 02:54 PM (EST)



Millions of people have lived without justice but not one without WATER.

The Earth is a water planet and largely why life is sustainable here versus other planets. In fact the planet Earth is 78% water and humans are 60% water. Of the 6 billion people on earth,...

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What President Obama Can Do to Reduce Gun Violence

Posted November 10, 2008 | 04:48 PM (EST)


President-elect Obama should implement seven tested and proven initiatives that will have an immediate impact on reducing gun related violence, accidents and suicides without affecting the Second Amendment or having any negative impact on responsible and law abiding gun owners.

Of the average 34,000 gun deaths in...

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US Gun Violence by the Numbers

Posted October 31, 2008 | 06:37 PM (EST)


In the wake of the recent senseless death of an 8 year old with an Uzi automatic weapon at a gun club in Massachusetts,  it's critical that we as a nation recognize that this child's gun death was just one of the 5 kids under 10 years old and 83 Americans...

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Gun Shows and Terrorists

Posted August 19, 2008 | 05:25 PM (EST)


Gun Shows are the equivalent of al Qaeda terrorists walking right onto the airplane while law abiding citizens wait in the TSA line!

At over 5,000 gun shows each year, in 32 States, criminals and terrorists are allowed to purchase firearms from private gun dealers without an ID or background...

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Second Amendment Decision-Best of Both (Urban and Rural) Gun Worlds

Posted July 10, 2008 | 10:04 AM (EST)


As a gun owner and urban gun violence prevention activist I'm pleased with the recent historic Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment. For more than 10 years I've been advocating for responsible national gun policies that effectively reduce gun access by kids, criminals and terrorists WITHOUT BANNING GUNS. With...

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Reduce Gun Violence Through Uniform National Laws -- Without Banning Guns

Posted February 25, 2008 | 10:34 PM (EST)


Let's get this out of the way. I am a gun owner and a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment. What I do not support is extending the rights embedded in the Second Amendment to terrorists, criminals and kids.

In the wake of another horrific campus shooting at Northern...

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Requiring Background Checks for All Gun Sales is Just Common Sense

Posted July 12, 2007 | 10:31 AM (EST)


My last post brought out a lot of good questions about how a uniform national law requiring background checks would work. Many people expressed skepticism, which I think is natural considering how much the NRA has invested in muddying the discussion with misinformation and phantom threats over the years. So...

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Why Aren't Criminal Background Checks Required for All Gun Sales?

Posted July 10, 2007 | 10:29 AM (EST)


Did you know that there is no federal requirement for criminal background checks for all gun sales? As a gun owner and avid shooter, I believe in a strong second amendment. But in today's world, it's crazy to allow convicted criminals and suspected terrorists to be able to buy an...

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It's Still Nuclear Power

Posted May 21, 2007 | 09:13 AM (EST)


I thought the NRA's support for suspected terrorists continuing to be able to legally buy guns took the "truth is stranger than fiction" prize until I read some supposed environmentalists support reviving commercial nuclear plants as an alternative to carbon (vs. radioactive waste) producing fossil fuel facilities. Now if that...

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Too Little, Too Late Policy-Making for Gun Control

Posted May 1, 2007 | 10:28 PM (EST)


As a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment I can't believe that the Founders intended to extend our hard fought constitutional rights to keep and bear arms to criminals, the mentally ill and children without any restrictions or background check.

Imagine if your son or daughter...

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The United States: Gun Violence Capital of the World

Posted April 28, 2007 | 06:46 PM (EST)


Given the virtually unregulated access to guns in the US, it's actually surprising that there aren't more than 80-90 gun deaths and 200-300 injuries everyday. There are an average of 30,000 gun deaths and 100,000 gun injuries each year. The average US annual firearm fatality rate is 10.6 per...

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