On Tuesday night after doing bedtime with my daughters, I was devastated, like so many of you, reading the horrific news about the tragedy at Robb Elementary school in Texas. 19 young children and 2 adults were killed in yet another mass shooting, less than six months after the mass shooting at Oxford High School right here in our state.

On Wednesday morning, I went to work, and as the Democratic Floor Leader in the Michigan Senate, I took action. 

I made a motion to discharge our "safe storage" bills to the floor of the Senate for immediate action. These bills, which would help protect kids by requiring that firearms be properly stored and make it easier to buy gun locks and gun safes, have been languishing in committee for nearly a year.  Lt. Gov. Gilchrist granted my motion, but the Senate Republicans moved these commonsense, long overdue bills back to committee with no plan to pass them. 

They said "it wasn't the time" to address gun violence.

But there is simply no excuse for any further inaction. It’s clear to me and so many Americans that the passage of safe storage, red flag laws, universal background checks, ammunition capacity bills, and so much more is in fact long overdue. 

I need your help to get re-elected and flip Michigan's Senate blue. If the Senate Republicans are going to choose not to protect our children and our communities from mass shootings, we need to change who is in power in the legislature this November. Can you chip in $25, $50, or $100 today?

In 2016, my colleagues and I formed the Gun Violence Prevention Caucus, and we have introduced bills to address gun violence every single term that I have served in the legislature.

I think about my daughters’ safety a lot, especially this past week and a half. If Black elders can’t be safe at the grocery store, Taiwanese Americans can’t be safe in a church fellowship hall, and young children can’t be safe at an elementary school, what am I supposed to tell them? What kind of world we are building for them if we can’t even keep our communities safe from mass shootings?

We can't let our children face the consequences of inaction any longer. The Republicans may keep trying to shut down debate and silence our voices at the Capitol urging action on gun violence, but know this -- every day they fail to act, hundreds more will join the movement for change.

And I will be with you in this movement every step of the way.

Onward,

P.S. We have all cried many tears this week. It's time to turn our sadness and anger into fighting back even harder for the policies we need to end gun violence -- and electing people who will champion gun violence prevention. Click here to donate $25, $50 or $100 today.