Friend, my daughter Carmen was everything you hope and dream your kid will be. She was one of the brightest students out there, a talented musician, and she had a great sense of humor.

Carmen had a bright future ahead of her – but that was taken away from her in an instant when a shooter opened fire on her classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing Carmen one week before her 17th birthday.

The day after the massacre, we got a letter in the mail: She had been named a National Merit Award finalist. A few weeks later, her acceptance letter to the University of Washington arrived, and the memories of our father-daughter trip to Seattle to tour the campus came flooding back. I felt unbearable heartbreak.

My daughter's death was preventable. Carmen was shot and killed by a military-grade AR-15 – a gun that was once banned in the U.S. If assault weapons were still banned, the shooter couldn’t have walked into a store and bought the AR-15, and he couldn’t have shot 140 bullets inside a school – four straight through a classroom door into my daughter.

If we don't take action to end our country's gun violence epidemic, there will be more fathers like me – more fathers who have to grieve the loss of their children forever. That's why I work with Ban Assault Weapons NOW – to ensure we finally ban assault weapons like the one used to murder my daughter.

But the NRA is spending millions to halt our movement in its tracks, so we need all hands on deck in this fight to save lives. We've set a goal to raise $5,000 before our midnight deadline – but we're falling short of our goal.

Please, will you give $5 or more right now to honor my daughter Carmen and prevent mass shootings across the country? Every dollar will go directly toward BAWN's mission to ban assault weapons and save children like Carmen.

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Carmen always strived to help people, and I'm going to honor her life by doing the same and working every day to keep tragedies like this from happening again. I hope you'll join me.

Thank you,

Philip Schentrup
Carmen's Dad
Committee Member, Ban Assault Weapons NOW



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