"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed
it."

John, these words by the author Zora Neale Hurston, who was
raised in Florida and set many of her greatest works there, have been
sitting with me since last month's hate-fueled shooting in Jacksonville.
I'm still struggling with what happened, but I refuse to keep that
struggle to myself.

The shooting in Jacksonville was utterly devastating—but it was not
surprising. We live in a country where it's all too easy for a white
supremacist to obtain an AR-style weapon and then use it to inflict
carnage upon the people he hates.

The guns everywhere agenda championed by the firearms industry and the
lawmakers who put the gun lobby's interests over our lives has created
this dystopian reality.

Taking on the culture of "guns everywhere" is not easy, but our movement
is already a force to be reckoned with—and it's working. It's going to
take policy changes at all levels of government, it's going to take the
tireless work of our incredible grassroots volunteers, and it's going to
take all of us sticking together to demand the change we need from our
leaders.

If we're going to take on the gun lobby and the powerful politicians who
support them, we need the resources to fight back. That's why from now
through midnight this Friday, September 15, a group of generous donors has
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As devastating as the twin epidemics of white supremacy and gun violence
are in this country, I refuse to believe they are inevitable. I know what
can be accomplished when voices sing out in unison for change and a
brighter tomorrow.

We will continue fighting to disarm hate in honor of the victims and
survivors in Jacksonville and all hate-fueled gun violence. We won't stop
until everyone in this country is truly "free"—and that means free from
the threats of gun violence AND white supremacy.

Your generous support for our movement means so much. Thank you for being
in this fight with me.

Angela Ferrell-Zabala
She/Her/Hers
Executive Director
Moms Demand Action


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