Hi John,

At 12:51pm on November 30, authorities received the first of what would be hundreds of 911 calls reporting an active shooter at Oxford High School in Michigan. Less than five minutes later, 11 people had been shot.

Hana St. Juliana, Madisyn Baldwin, and Tate Myre were killed. A fourth student, Justin Shilling, died the next morning. Seven other people were wounded.

In just seconds, a 15-year-old armed with a semi-automatic rifle and high-capacity magazines was able to fire at least 30 rounds, cutting four lives short and changing hundreds more forever.

Excessively-high capacity magazines, like the one the Oxford shooter used, make it easier to fire more rounds at a target faster, which makes shootings deadlier. The precious seconds it takes a shooter to reload can, and often do, mean the difference between life and death.

All six of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. in the last decade—Las Vegas, Orlando, Sandy Hook, Sutherland Springs, El Paso, and Parkland—involved excessive-capacity magazines.

We have been working for the last three years to prohibit high-capacity magazines and we won’t quit until we keep these lethal devices out of our communities. But we can’t win on our own. We’re up against a well-funded and loud minority who will do whatever it takes to block this commonsense progress. Please, donate today in honor of the Oxford victims to fund our fight to pass this lifesaving legislation.

We can’t afford to wait for the next mass shooting.

Thank you,
Renée (she/her)