On Sunday morning, like so many across Ohio and across the country, Connie and I woke up to the devastating news of a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio. We were filled with grief and with gratitude for the heroic police officers who prevented this tragedy from being even worse. And we were also angry.

We are angry that shooting after shooting, politicians in Washington and Columbus have failed to act on commonsense gun safety. When I called Mayor Whaley of Dayton, she told me she had received calls from mayors across the country - offering not just condolences, but advice. Far too mayors and their communities have been through this before. Enough.

People do not have to keep dying and we have the power to do something about it. But that can't happen until politicians stop working for the NRA and start doing the right thing for the people they serve.

So this week, I joined Mayor Whaley in Dayton to see President Trump. I looked the President in the eye and urged him to do the right thing. I'm asking the President to call Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, tell McConnell to bring the Senate back to Washington, hold a vote on commonsense gun safety legislation, and to promise the American people he will sign that legislation into law. In the words of people in Dayton: "Do something."

We owe it to those we lost in Dayton, and in El Paso, and in Gilroy, and in neighborhoods all over this country that lose precious lives to gun violence every day -- we owe it to all of them to never give up on making our country safer. If we can spare more families the agony that those in Dayton are going through, our fight will be worth it.

In solidarity,

Sherrod***Paid for by Friends of Sherrod Brown***

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