Seven years ago today, as Colorado's top federal prosecutor, I stood in a mobile command post outside a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado with city, state & federal law enforcement, as we worked to respond to a terrible mass shooting that had taken the lives of 12 Coloradans and caused grievous harm to dozens more.

Nothing can bring those lives back or undo the horror and damage done that night, which so many families and victims endured and endure to this day. Nothing will ever erase from my memory the immediate, shocking reality of what had happened, and the reality of the pain suffered by so many.

That staggering experience galvanized me -- I vowed to fight to pull our country out of the spiral of mass shootings and gun violence into which we have descended. That vow was followed by action: Leading aggressive investigations and prosecutions of gun violence here in Colorado, testifying as a lead witness before the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee for President Obama's gun violence package in 2013, and more recently, in favor of the "Extreme Risk Protection Order" bill in our Colorado House and Senate in 2019.

We have the power to combat gun violence, and we must act.

You have my undying pledge to continue that fight as your next U.S. Senator for Colorado, relentlessly, until we have turned the tide.

John

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