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To: The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump
Support young people rising for gun safety
Young people across the country are calling BS on adult excuses for failing to achieve any progress on gun safety. They are rising up to fight for their own safety and future. We hear them and support them as they begin to speak their truth to power to save their own lives. We hear them and support them as they call on you to reject the gun lobby.
It’s time for you to choose the safety of our children above everything and PLEDGE to refuse donations from the NRA and gun industry PACs.
It’s time for you to choose the safety of our children above everything and PLEDGE to refuse donations from the NRA and gun industry PACs.
Why is this important?
The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s Day last week was the eighth school shooting of 2018 – the eighth! – which is more than one school shooting per week. The numbers are staggering. Since Columbine in 1998, more than 150,000 primary and secondary school students have experienced a school shooting.
When our schools are no longer safe, how can Congress continue to do nothing but wring its hands over America’s gun violence problem? It’s unconscionable.
Florida school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez, a senior in high school, got to the heart of the issue in no time flat. In a powerful speech at a gun safety rally in Ft. Lauderdale, which left us in tears, Emma railed, “To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you!”
Emma is right: The influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) is driving our government’s massive failure to even attempt to reduce gun violence. Politicians who continue to accept campaign contributions from the NRA and gun industry PACs implicitly support an all-types-of-guns-everywhere-for-everyone agenda, which points in only one direction: more gun violence.
Something is happening. When Emma Gonzalez spoke, she projected the pain and sense of betrayal shared by her entire generation over the fact that adults have not delivered on our most sacred charge: to keep them safe. Now Emma and young people across the country are calling BS on adult excuses for failing to achieve any progress on gun safety. They are rising up to fight for their own safety and future.
As adults, our job now is to help our children succeed where we have failed. We join our children in calling BS. There can be no more excuses for failing to protect them from gun violence.
That’s why we’re taking their lead and telling members of Congress to pledge to reject donations from the NRA and the corporate PACs of gun manufacturers.
When our schools are no longer safe, how can Congress continue to do nothing but wring its hands over America’s gun violence problem? It’s unconscionable.
Florida school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez, a senior in high school, got to the heart of the issue in no time flat. In a powerful speech at a gun safety rally in Ft. Lauderdale, which left us in tears, Emma railed, “To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you!”
Emma is right: The influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) is driving our government’s massive failure to even attempt to reduce gun violence. Politicians who continue to accept campaign contributions from the NRA and gun industry PACs implicitly support an all-types-of-guns-everywhere-for-everyone agenda, which points in only one direction: more gun violence.
Something is happening. When Emma Gonzalez spoke, she projected the pain and sense of betrayal shared by her entire generation over the fact that adults have not delivered on our most sacred charge: to keep them safe. Now Emma and young people across the country are calling BS on adult excuses for failing to achieve any progress on gun safety. They are rising up to fight for their own safety and future.
As adults, our job now is to help our children succeed where we have failed. We join our children in calling BS. There can be no more excuses for failing to protect them from gun violence.
That’s why we’re taking their lead and telling members of Congress to pledge to reject donations from the NRA and the corporate PACs of gun manufacturers.