Hey there, please don’t click away from this email.

In a tragic and, unfortunately, predictable turn of events, the United States just surpassed 400 mass shootings in 2023.1

This is a harrowing epidemic — one that is all-too avoidable. But thanks to heavily funded right-wing efforts, most attempts are rejected. Only 10 states nationwide have bans on assault weapons.2 For the rest of the country, assault weapons continue to cause terror and tragedy without any regulation.

It affects millions of Americans, and more directly, young adults, as gun violence is the number one cause of death among children and teens. We cannot continue to allow more and more of our youth to die every year when the government has the power and tools to put an end to it. Congress needs to pass legislation to get assault weapons and high-capacity magazines off our streets.

Sign the petition: Congress must pass legislation to ban assault weapons immediately.

Not only are assault weapons more dangerous because they are semi-automatic guns, but they are even more lethal compared to handguns. Each round fired from an assault weapon has up to four times the muzzle energy of a typical gun, inflicting greater damage to the human body.

With that much lethal power and efficiency, mass shooters are able to wreak havoc in schools, shopping malls, concerts, highways, places of worship, and many other places.

We know that banning assault weapons will decrease gun violence and protect people in this country because it has been done before. When the federal assault weapon ban took effect in 1994, the risk of a person in the United States dying from a mass shooting was reduced by 70%.3 Congress failed to extend that ban in 2004, and our country has suffered the brunt of that since.

With multiple high-profile mass shootings and an obscene number of casualties, gun violence with assault weapons can no longer continue. Congress must act immediately.

Demand that Congress implement a federal ban on assault weapons now!

Thanks for taking action,

Tihi and the Demand Progress team

Sources:

  1. ABC News, "US Surpasses 400 Mass Shootings so Far in 2023," July, 2023.
  2. World Population Review, "Assault Rifle Legality by State" July, 2023.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times, "Yes, the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban Saved Lives," December, 2022.

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