John,
Last week, students at Brown University were taking their final exams when a gunman opened fire in an engineering building. Two students were killed and nine others were wounded.
Brown students described barricading themselves in classrooms, hiding under desks, and sending what they thought might be their last messages to family and friends. For some of them, this was the second time they had lived through a mass shooting, after surviving violence in their hometowns or former schools. Their reality is one where studying for finals and scanning for exits happen at the same time.
For younger students, the threat is not abstract. Firearms are now the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States, killing more young people than car crashes or cancer. Every day, about 125 people in this country are killed with guns and roughly twice as many are shot and wounded.
None of this is inevitable. Research shows that stronger gun safety policies, secure firearm storage, crisis intervention tools, and community violence intervention can reduce shootings and save lives, especially for children.
Our kids deserve classrooms where the focus is on learning, not survival.
Your support helps us fight for that reality. It powers our advocacy for secure storage and crisis intervention, our work with partners on school and community safety, and our efforts to hold lawmakers accountable when they fail to act.
Will you make a year end gift right now to help protect children and students from gun violence?
Every contribution helps move us closer to a future where no student has to hide under a desk during a test.
With gratitude,
Alliance for Gun Responsibility
