To: President Donald Trump, The Massachusetts State House, The Massachusetts State Senate, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Control Guns Before Guns Kill Us
VOTE for:
The ban of all automatic and semi-automatic weapons;
More stringent approval and waiting procedures for gun licenses;
Annual reviews of all gun licenses;
Ban carrying guns, except hunting rifles in vehicles driving to public places;
Vigorous prosecution of those having violated gun laws, including the lending of and the failure to secure guns.
The ban of all automatic and semi-automatic weapons;
More stringent approval and waiting procedures for gun licenses;
Annual reviews of all gun licenses;
Ban carrying guns, except hunting rifles in vehicles driving to public places;
Vigorous prosecution of those having violated gun laws, including the lending of and the failure to secure guns.
Why is this important?
To all citizens of the United States: today, Dec. 14, 2012, 20 children and 6 adults were shot dead by a gunman in an elementary school in Connecticut. Last night in China, 25 elementary school students were wounded by a knife attack, however not one person did not make it out alive. The reason why all of these children will be able to return home once again is because China has enacted laws ensuring that not everyone with an identification and drivers license has the right to obtain a gun. We will never be able to prevent people like the gunman and the knifeman from existing in our society, however we can decide whether we want our children recovering in the hospital after an attack like this, or dead.
The difference is staggering between how much we spend to defend ourselves from foreign threats that have yet to make themselves present, and how much we spend to keep ourselves safe from mass shootings that happen far too often on our own soil. Gun manufacturers make billions of dollars from not having gun control. How much more of our blood can we afford to shed to maintain these industries? Countries like Japan and Norway are proving that we are falling farther and farther behind developed countries where people live a better life without wielding guns. The right to bear arms ends when the 89 percent of Americans who own guns were unable to protect 20 children from being shot dead, and when the good these arms do is a nearly nonexistent drop in the sea of devastation that they cause. Banning the use of all automatic weapons and having more strict gun control laws are the first steps to take in ending these fully preventable tragedies in the United States.
I therefore ask all of my fellow Americans to consider while having their dinners tonight the twenty six of our families that will never have another meal with their loved ones again.
The difference is staggering between how much we spend to defend ourselves from foreign threats that have yet to make themselves present, and how much we spend to keep ourselves safe from mass shootings that happen far too often on our own soil. Gun manufacturers make billions of dollars from not having gun control. How much more of our blood can we afford to shed to maintain these industries? Countries like Japan and Norway are proving that we are falling farther and farther behind developed countries where people live a better life without wielding guns. The right to bear arms ends when the 89 percent of Americans who own guns were unable to protect 20 children from being shot dead, and when the good these arms do is a nearly nonexistent drop in the sea of devastation that they cause. Banning the use of all automatic weapons and having more strict gun control laws are the first steps to take in ending these fully preventable tragedies in the United States.
I therefore ask all of my fellow Americans to consider while having their dinners tonight the twenty six of our families that will never have another meal with their loved ones again.