Jack, eleven-year-old Miah Cerrillo survived the Uvalde elementary school shooting by smearing blood from her classmate's dead body on herself so she could pretend to "play dead" and hide while the gunman still roamed the halls outside.
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No child should ever have to go through such a harrowing experience, especially not at school.
But Republicans value NRA donations more than they do children's lives. They use the filibuster to block any gun safety legislation, even though most Americans support common-sense gun restrictions.
The filibuster does not "encourage consensus," or else something with near-universal support like gun background checks would have passed years ago. Instead, it's the final refuge of obstructionists who seek to block any and all sensible reform. How many more mass shootings will happen until we abolish the filibuster?
Sign and send the petition to your Democratic U.S. Senator: We must end the filibuster, or the Senate will never pass sensible gun safety reform to stop these mass shootings.
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Thanks for all you do,
Mayra Souza, Daily Kos
P.S. Below is an email we sent out earlier demanding an end to the filibuster:
Jack, in the span of two weeks, 10 Black people were massacred in a grocery store in Buffalo, and 19 children and two teachers were murdered in their elementary school in Texas. In both killings, young men used semi-automatic rifles to mercilessly shoot down their victims.
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Although both incidents have dominated the news cycle, they represent just a fraction of the death toll from the gun violence epidemic that continues to worsen. Meanwhile, Republicans and the NRA fight harder and harder to keep more guns on the street and continue to use the filibuster to block any and all gun reform legislation from passing.
We live daily amid a brutal gun violence epidemic, but we cannot pass gun reform legislation so long as the GOP can use the racist filibuster to block progress and critical health safety.
Sign and send the petition to your Democratic U.S. Senator: We must end the filibuster, or the Senate will never pass sensible gun safety reform to stop these mass shootings.
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Thank you for fighting with us,
Mayra Souza, Daily Kos
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