Hi–

I hope you and your friends, family, and community have enjoyed a restful
and restorative start to the new year.

I want to take a moment to thank the thousands of people who supported us
in the last few weeks of 2024: Your donations are already going a long way
toward helping us make progress on gun safety in 2025 and for years to
come.

[ [link removed] ]Our movement is working to ensure that we all have a chance to live
safer lives this year. Join us.

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Just two days into 2025, our communities are already reeling from gun
violence that will impact them for the rest of their lives.

Between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day alone, there were more than 200
shootings across the country—78 people were killed and another 197 people
were injured.

We can't grow numb to the fact that holidays in America are too often
marred by gun violence. Here is just a snapshot of the last few days:

* At least 15 people were killed and another 35 were injured in an act
of armed extremism after a man drove a pickup truck into crowds in the
French Quarter of New Orleans, which ended in a shootout with the
police where the suspect was killed and two officers were injured.
* 10 people between the ages of 16 and 20 were shot and injured outside
a nightclub in Queens on New Year's Day.
* Two brothers were shot and killed and another five people were wounded
in a mass shooting at a New Year's Day party in Kankakee, Illinois.
* A woman was shot and killed in Kissimmee, Florida after she was hit by
a stray bullet. Officers believe that the shooting was an act of
celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve.
* A six-year-old girl was shot by a stray bullet in Omaha, Nebraska on
New Year's Eve.
* In Chester, Pennsylvania, a 16-year-old was shot and injured by a
stray bullet in what sources believe was celebratory gunfire on New
Year's Eve.

Everyday gun violence and armed extremism are the result of choices made
by lawmakers who prioritize gun industry profits over our lives.

125 people are killed by guns every day, but it doesn't have to be this
way—our children and our communities deserve better. They deserve to live.

These tragedies are not inevitable.

[ [link removed] ]200 shootings already on the books this year is unacceptable. Our lives
are at stake, and the fight for common-sense gun safety legislation starts
with you: join our movement to demand action to protect our communities.

Angela Ferrell-Zabala
She/Her/Hers
Executive Director, Moms Demand Action
& Senior Vice President of Movement Building
Everytown for Gun Safety


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