Yesterday in Boulder, Colorado, while customers of King Soopers grocery store were simply shopping for groceries, a gunman took the lives of 10 people and injured many more. In less than a week alone, our country has survived over five mass shootings. It is time for

 

 

Yesterday in Boulder, Colorado, while customers of King Soopers grocery store were simply shopping for groceries,  a gunman took the lives of 10 people and injured many more. Our thoughts are with the families and communities of all impacted by this act of horrific violence.  

 

Their names are:

 

Denny Strong, 20 

Neven Stanisic, 23 

Rikki Olds, 25 

Tralona Bartkowiak, 49 

Teri Leiker, 51 

Eric Talley, 51 

Suzanne Fountain, 59 

Kevin Mahoney, 61 

Lynn Murray, 62 

Jody Waters, 65

 

We are just three months into this year, but according to the Gun Violence Archive this shooting is only the most recent of 103 mass shootings in 2021. In less than a week alone, our country has survived over five mass shootings. In Chicago, 15 people were shot last week, the same week that a gunman targeted three Asian businesses in Atlanta and killed eight people. These shootings are not episodic, but rather a pattern of the gun violence crisis in this country—a crisis that disproportionately impacts communities of color. 

 

We know our communities can’t wait, which is why we ask you to join us in asking our nation’s leaders to take action to end gun violence now. 

 

Earlier this year, we called on the Biden-Harris Administration to prioritize policies to end gun violence in the first 100 days. Our recommended actions included: establishing gun violence prevention as a priority issue, addressing gun violence as a public health crisis, investing in community based solutions to address gun violence, and implementing measures to end police violence.  

 

We are calling on the Biden-Harris Administration to ensure that public resources, strategies, and funding are focused on community-based solutions that take a public health approach, which include a focus on risk behaviors, living conditions, root causes, and systematic oppression that fuel the cycle of violence in our communities.  

 

Gun violence is not just a political issue: this crisis is about life or death for our communities. 

Join us in calling on the Biden-Harris Administration to take direct action TODAY.

 

In solidarity,

 

Greg Jackson

Advocacy Director

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