Folks --

All over America today, mothers and fathers dropped their children
off at school and left with a pit in their stomach. Asking themselves:
"Will they be safe?" "Can it happen here?" "Will they come home?"

This can't be. We can't stand by and let our schools, our cities, and
our communities become war zones.

It's been five years since Newtown, where 20 students and six
teachers were murdered by a gunman. Since then, there have been
at least another 239 school shootings where more than 400 people
have been shot.

I said long ago that the most important thing anyone running for office
has to decide is what they are willing to lose over. Not what they're willing
to do to win. But what are they willing to lose over.

Well, how about this: Is protecting our children's lives worth losing over?
Keeping weapons of war out of the classroom and off our streets? Giving
parents some peace of mind? You're damn right it is.

Folks, the federal budget deficit isn't the biggest deficit we've got in Washington.
We've got a courage deficit. We have too many Members of Congress who
care more about the threats and the checks they get from the NRA than they
do about the kids in America's classrooms.

I'm not asking for your money. I'm asking for your support. Your courage. To
put your name on this petition next to mine. To send a message to every person
in Congress that says, "You can't wait us out." Not this time:

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For all those who lost their lives this week in Parkland -- and for the survivors
and broken families left behind -- your words of sympathies and condolences
aren't enough. It's never been enough. Your prayers aren't enough. We're voting
on this.

And we're not going to forget what you did -- and didn't do.

Thank you.

-Joe----

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