Hey John,

Every year, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention releases the official number of people who were killed by guns in the United States the year prior. In 2017, that number hit a peak at 39,773. Well, the numbers just came out for 2018 and they are just as high:

39,741 people died from gun violence in 2018. 

This number is shocking. It’s scary. It’s disturbing. It’s also hard to visualize. People know how to mourn one individual person. But mourning almost 40,000? Our minds can’t visualize that pain and our hearts can’t comprehend grief on that scale. 

40,000 undergraduates attend Michigan State University. 

40,000 people can sell out Madison Square Garden. Twice. 

40,000 can fill 97 Boeing 747 jets. 

40,000 students would fill 556 school buses. 

If 97 jets were crashing every year, or 556 school buses of children were disappearing from the planet, we would do everything we could to stop it. Yet, when people are being murdered in their homes, streets, schools, and churches, Congress doesn’t bat an eye.

We are not giving up. We are not stepping down. We are fighting for our lives and on behalf of the 39,741 who died in 2018 -- including the 17 we lost in Parkland. And we need you by our side.

Register to vote.
Join a chapter.
Sign onto the Peace Plan.
Donate to support our youth-led chapters as they register young people to vote.
 

We can’t wait any longer. The time for thoughts and prayers is long past. The time for immediate and bold action is now. 

In solidarity,
David Hogg
Board Member
March For Our Lives