One year ago today, a gunman went on a racist rampage at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 people. We're marking this somber day with action — and we are counting on you to join us. We're counting on 50,000 responses to our live poll before midnight tonight. Please, make your voice heard now:

John, around 2:30 p.m., a gunman arrived at a Buffalo supermarket, armed with an AR-15-style assault weapon. 

By 2:36 p.m., he had shot 13 people, killing 10 of them.

In the span of just 6 minutes, an entire community was torn apart. Survivors were left traumatized by memories of screams and gunshots, of hiding in milk freezers and backrooms. Families were left struggling to make sense of the senseless, unnecessary violence that ripped away their loved ones in an instant.

Across the country, more and more communities experience this same trauma every single day. Just weeks ago, there were back-to-back mass shootings in Texas that killed 13 people. One 6-year-old child watched his mother, father, and younger brother die in a rain of bullets from a weapon of war.

If this story sounds all too familiar, it's because it is in this country. There have been more than 200 mass shootings in 2023 — more than there have been days in the year so far. It's time to stop offering platitudes and stop pretending that there is any other path forward: The only way to protect our communities and our children is by banning assault weapons. And it has to happen now.

That's why we're calling on 50,000 gun violence prevention activists to mark this day by raising our voices as one with us. It's time to demand change — and refuse to take no for an answer. Please, will you join us by responding to our urgent poll before midnight tonight?