To: The California State House, The California State Senate, and Governor Gavin Newsom
REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE IN CALIFORNIA
To: California Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown:
Legislators: Pass these common-sense bills to reduce gun violence in California, which are being actively considered in the legislature.
Governor Brown: When any of these bills are passed by the legislature, sign them into law:
Senate Bill 1446 to restrict possession of ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets. This restriction applies to assault weapons, which are the favorite killing machines of mass murderers.
Senate Bill 880, which prohibits guns with “bullet buttons” that make it easy to change ammunition clips. This restriction applies to assault weapons, which are the favorite killing machines of mass murderers.
Assembly Bill 1674 to limit the number of rifles that a person can buy to one each month.
Senate Bill 1235 to regulate the sale of ammunition, which is needed because people who have been convicted of felony crimes who have gotten their hands on guns can easily purchase ammunition in California today.
Senate Bill 869 requiring law enforcement officers who leave pistols in their vehicles to keep them in a locked box or in the trunk, to prevent thefts.
Senate Bill 894 and Assembly Bill 1695 to require prompt reporting of guns that are lost or stolen.
Senate Bill 1407, which requires people who manufacture or assemble a gun to obtain a serial number from the state and engrave it on the gun. (Necessary because guns are now being assembled at home.)
Legislators: Pass these common-sense bills to reduce gun violence in California, which are being actively considered in the legislature.
Governor Brown: When any of these bills are passed by the legislature, sign them into law:
Senate Bill 1446 to restrict possession of ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets. This restriction applies to assault weapons, which are the favorite killing machines of mass murderers.
Senate Bill 880, which prohibits guns with “bullet buttons” that make it easy to change ammunition clips. This restriction applies to assault weapons, which are the favorite killing machines of mass murderers.
Assembly Bill 1674 to limit the number of rifles that a person can buy to one each month.
Senate Bill 1235 to regulate the sale of ammunition, which is needed because people who have been convicted of felony crimes who have gotten their hands on guns can easily purchase ammunition in California today.
Senate Bill 869 requiring law enforcement officers who leave pistols in their vehicles to keep them in a locked box or in the trunk, to prevent thefts.
Senate Bill 894 and Assembly Bill 1695 to require prompt reporting of guns that are lost or stolen.
Senate Bill 1407, which requires people who manufacture or assemble a gun to obtain a serial number from the state and engrave it on the gun. (Necessary because guns are now being assembled at home.)
Why is this important?
998 mass shootings of at least four people in each incident have occurred in the United States since the massacre of children in Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, 2012. (Source: The Nation magazine, 6/16/2016.)
Remember these mass murders? —
Orlando, June, 2016: 49 people gunned down in cold blood
San Bernadino, December, 2015: 14 people gunned down in cold blood
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, June, 2015: 9 people gunned down in cold blood
Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, CT, 2012: 26 people, 20 of them young children, gunned down in cold blood
Remember them? How can we forget them!
The common denominator in every single one of these incidents—as well as in the more than 10,000 homicide gun deaths that take place in the United States each year—is guns.
We can’t count on the U.S. Congress to take effective action to reduce gun violence. The last time they passed any significant law to reduce gun violence was in 1994–over twenty years ago. That law expired in 2004 and Congress has refused to renew it.
Each one of the proposed laws being considered by the California legislature right now is one step toward reducing gun violence in California.
Sign the petition to urge our legislators to pass these laws, and to urge Governor Brown to sign them into law.
Remember these mass murders? —
Orlando, June, 2016: 49 people gunned down in cold blood
San Bernadino, December, 2015: 14 people gunned down in cold blood
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, June, 2015: 9 people gunned down in cold blood
Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, CT, 2012: 26 people, 20 of them young children, gunned down in cold blood
Remember them? How can we forget them!
The common denominator in every single one of these incidents—as well as in the more than 10,000 homicide gun deaths that take place in the United States each year—is guns.
We can’t count on the U.S. Congress to take effective action to reduce gun violence. The last time they passed any significant law to reduce gun violence was in 1994–over twenty years ago. That law expired in 2004 and Congress has refused to renew it.
Each one of the proposed laws being considered by the California legislature right now is one step toward reducing gun violence in California.
Sign the petition to urge our legislators to pass these laws, and to urge Governor Brown to sign them into law.