📢 We deserve to live in a community free of gun violence
If arming more people meant that we would be safer, we would be safest nation on earth. - Shannon Watts
I often think of the parents of Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook, and Uvalde. I wonder how they must feel each and every time a preventable slaughter of life happens in another school. This past week in Georgia, another senseless and preventable tragedy occurred, and while it happens every day in America, we can not stop advocating against gun violence.
Everyone deserves to live in a community free of gun violence.
Unfortunately, we have some very naughty lawmakers who are enabling gun manufacturers, sellers, and special interest groups to disregard our public safety and commit negligent and harmful acts on our community with zero accountability.
They are being shielded by an outdated law that protects them from lawsuits. No other industry gets this type of privilege, and quite frankly, it borders on corruption as many lawmakers benefit from donations to their campaigns from gun manufacturers and special interests.
As champions for progress, we believe that everyone who is eligible should be allowed to own a gun.
Our state and federal laws need to be updated to define eligibility better:
- Require background checks on all gun sales and ammunition sales
- Have a red flag law
- Prevent domestic abusers from accessing guns
- Ban assault weapons
- Limit magazine capacity
- Ban bump stocks
- Require concealed carry permits
- Restrict open-carry
- Ban firearms in libraries, schools, and hospitals
- Have a waiting period
- Allow victims of gun violence to have their day in court and that gun manufacturers, sellers, and interest groups are not shielded from liability when acting with negligence and disregard for public safety.
Please join us in pushing for a community free of gun violence.
Today’s Calls-to-Action
Click here to send a letter to your member of Congress: Everyone deserves to live in a community free of gun violence
The Naughty List
Click here to view the House Democrats and Republicans who are holdouts and still need to co-sponsor accountability for gun violence in our communities
Click here to view the Senate Democrats and Republicans who are holdouts and still need to co-sponsor accountability for gun violence in our communities
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Gun violence is just another part of life in America now!! We hear about school shootings and other mass gun slaughters but, at least 100 people die daily guns including murders, police shootings of suspects, family violence, accidental shootings by little kids, drug deals that involve murders, gang violence, and on and on. All the recommendations and proposed laws would help end many of the mass gun slaughters but, so much more MUST be done by everyone in America to put an end to the mass murder of Americans every day! When Americans GROW UP and accept responsibility for ALL THE CONSEQUENCES of their THOUGHTS, WORDS, and DEEDS! in EVERY part of their LIVES then MAYBE our Country and the LIFE of EVERY AMERICAN will be DRASTICALLY IMPROVED! This INSANE GUN VIOLENCE is just ONE INDICATION of how sick, depraved, and hate-filled AMericans really are!! This sickness and depravity came with the English who landed here originally and stole this land from the Indigenous people to establish a society to allegedly escape religious persecution! Amazing how that worked out!! THINK ABOUT IT!!