This is another reminder that until we have stringent gun safety laws we will never truly be safe.
Content warning: This message contains reflections on the mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois on July 4, 2022. If this feels like too much right now, please take care of yourself—you can skip the rest of this email. You are not alone. If you need support, here are some mental health resources that you may find helpful.
John
On July 4, 2022, families gathered in Highland Park to celebrate. Moments later, a rooftop shooter unleashed horror—killing seven people and injuring over forty-five others.
We should never have to relive that kind of pain. But as we approach another Fourth of July, the threat is only growing. Gun safety protections are being torn away, and weapons of war remain far too easy to get.
Every summer, gun violence surges. This weekend, countless families will gather—hoping for joy, but fearing the worst. That fear shouldn’t be normal.
No one should have to risk their life to attend a parade. Or go to school. Or sit in a movie theater. But when leaders choose the gun lobby over our safety, that’s exactly what they force us to do.
The Highland Park shooter legally bought a gun, even after alarming warning signs. That never should’ve happened. And that’s why we’re fighting—to make sure it never happens again.
We’re working with survivors, organizers, and lawmakers to defend life-saving laws and build a country where no one has to live in fear.
To honor those stolen from us, we have to keep going.
We owe them more than thoughts and prayers—we owe them action.
In grief and in power,
March For Our Lives
Today and every day we honor the lives lost in Highland Park on July 4, 2022.
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Katherine Goldstein, 64
Irina McCarthy, 35
Kevin McCarthy, 37
Stephen Straus, 88
Jacquelyn Sundheim, 63
Nicolas Toledo-Zargoza, 78
Eduardo Uvaldo, 69
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