Dear friend,

In the span of a single week, our country faced three heartbreaking mass shootings. One in my home state of California at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. One at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas, where the shooter reportedly targeted Hispanics. And one at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, which took place just thirteen hours after the tragedy in El Paso. We lost at least 30 lives and saw 53 people injured in the last of these two mass shootings in just a matter of 24 hours.

Enough is enough. We cannot allow a president who traffics in hate speech, in racism, in stoking divisions which have encouraged the growth of white supremacy in our country — and his enablers in Congress — to stop action any longer.

We in Congress were elected to take action on the nationwide epidemic of gun violence, not to merely offer more thoughts and prayers every time one of these tragedies occurs.

And in the House, we did act. Five months ago, the House Democratic Majority made it one of our first priorities to pass gun reform, and we succeeded. But ever since then, our bills HR 8 and HR 1112 have sat on Mitch McConnell’s desk -- he simply refuses to allow a vote on them.

Every day the Senate fails to act and refuses to vote on commonsense gun safety measures, lives are on the line. It’s become clear, whether it’s our schools, places of worship, food festivals, movie theaters, workplaces, grocery stores -- no place is safe from the scourge of mass shootings. Every child and every person is at risk.

In the pockets of the NRA, Republicans have let this become the new norm. But it’s not normal, it can never become normal, and saving lives from preventable massacres shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

If you agree, add your name right now to demand Senate Majority Leader McConnell bring Senators back from recess and vote on our commonsense gun reform legislation now.

While we push the Senate to take basic preventative steps to save lives, like expanding background checks and banning the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, we must also condemn and act to stop the rise of domestic, white nationalist terrorism. This is a homegrown issue that’s only getting worse, and the flames are fanned by hateful, divisive rhetoric from the highest levels of our government: the President of the United States.

It’s time for our leaders to lead. It’s time to take decisive action to prevent mass shootings. And it’s time to combat the dangerous rise of white nationalism.

Thank you,

Adam