Dear John,

Going back to school shouldn’t mean going back to school shootings.
 
Just days before the school year was over in Uvalde, TX on May 24, the third deadliest school shooting in America took the lives of 19 students and two teachers and wounded 16 others.
 
Already, there have been 27 school shootings and over 300 mass shootings in 2022. Firearms are the number one cause of death for children in the U.S.

It does not have to be this way. We refuse to sit by while so many young lives are stolen by a gun. We know what works to keep our schools and communities safe. Will you help support our work with a $5 contribution right now to help keep kids safe where they learn and play? 

In the wake of the Uvalde shooting, a North Carolina school district and County Sheriff’s Office are rolling out new security measures for the 2022-23 school year. The plan? Putting AR-15’s in every school.
 
I wish that were a joke, but sadly it’s not. It is an extreme example of the dangerous myth that more guns will make us safer. But if that were true, the United States would be the safest country in the world. 

We know the answer to saving lives isn’t arming our teachers or putting guns in our schools. The answer is fighting for evidence-based policies and programs that are proven to stop gun violence—like our newly-passed legislation that restricts high-capacity magazines and limits open carry which went into effect July 1st.
 
Our children deserve better. They deserve to go to school free from the threat of a shooting. They deserve to go to the park, the movie theater, the mall, free from the threat of a shooting. They deserve to grow up free from the terror of gun violence.

Please, make a gift today to help keep our kids safe, so they never have to know the terror of gun violence.

Thank you,

Renée (she/her)