John,

Today is the eighteenth birthday that I don’t get to celebrate with with my mom. But on what would have been her 74^th birthday, we get to celebrate a landmark win for Brady and the gun violence prevention movement.

For many years after my mom was murdered, I could only focus on trying to do the next right thing. And running was literally that, I was putting a foot in front of the other and moving forward. I ran for a decade, until they finally convicted the man who killed my mom – and then I ran a whole marathon.

Four years ago, today, I stood at the starting line in freezing temperatures and sleet. I had raised over $30,000 for Brady while I trained, and as I ran 26 miles on what would have been my mom’s 70th birthday, I finally realized the next right thing to do: Use my voice to become a leader in this movement. Brady allowed me to do that, and since then I haven’t stopped using my experience as a survivor to work toward ending the gun violence epidemic that took my mom.

And, John, today I’m asking you to join me in this fight and celebrate my mom’s birthday and honor her life. I know my mom would have been as thrilled as I am that she gets to share this date with the passage of expanded Brady Background Checks in the House, but to truly honor her and the countless others who we’ve lost to gun violence, we need to ensure that the Senate passes this legislation, too.

We can’t let another family go through the tragedy that mine and so many others have faced, and that requires our dedication to passing lifesaving legislation in the House and Senate. That’s why today, on my mom’s birthday, I’m asking you to donate whatever you can to our fight. We need as much support as possible to pass lifesaving legislation and make sure that no other family has to miss a birthday.

John, will you donate now and help me celebrate my mom’s birthday by fighting for common sense gun violence prevention legislation?

As we celebrate this historic day for gun violence prevention, I hope you join me in celebrating a little extra for Nancy, John. I’m missing my mom a lot today, but I’m still fighting my hardest to save lives.

Thanks for joining me.

Liz Dunning

Gun violence survivor
Nancy’s daughter
Vice President of Development

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