John, I wrote to you earlier this week expressing my grief over the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. That same day, President Biden came out with a statement calling for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines like the ones used at Sandy Hook and other countless mass shootings.

I’ve been calling for a similar ban for years, and I’m glad to hear President Biden amplifying this message. John, will you sign our petition calling for an assault weapons ban? We need to keep up the public pressure on this critical issue.

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As President Biden said, “We should have societal guilt for taking too long to deal with this problem. We have a moral obligation to pass and enforce laws that can prevent these things from happening again.” It’s an embarrassment that it’s been ten years since Sandy Hook, and mass shootings are still a regular occurrence.

We’ve had a few key victories in recent years – such as passing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that enhances background checks – but it’s far from sufficient in the fight to end gun violence. We must stop the sales of high-powered assault weapons, period. They’re simply too deadly, and time and time again we see them used in horrific mass shootings.

Join our efforts to stop gun violence by signing on to show your support for an assault weapons ban. We’re all in this together, and it’s on all of us to use our voices.

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Thanks,
Lucy

Previous message:

Dear John,

It was ten years ago today, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Ten years ago, a man walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in a small town in Connecticut and murdered 26 people with an AR-15 rifle. Twenty of the victims were six and seven year old children. The other six were educators.

The massacre occurred less than a month after the murder of my son Jordan. I was actively grieving the loss of my child from a senseless act of gun violence when I heard the news of this massacre in Newtown. The pain was unbearable.

When you lose a child to gun violence, you join a club that no one wants to be a part of. Every year, another wave of grief comes around the time of the event. My heart goes out to the families of the 26 people who were shot and killed that day, and I stand beside them on the anniversary of the day their lives changed forever.

After the events of 2012, I knew I had to turn my pain into purpose. I threw myself into activism to prevent gun violence in the United States, a journey that eventually led me to the halls of Congress. I’ve fought to enact legislation that would prevent any more tragedies like the Sandy Hook shooting, but progress has been slow.

This past May, a gunman entered an elementary school in Texas and killed 21 people. The fact that this happened ten years after Sandy Hook is unimaginable. In the last ten years, we’ve seen NRA-backed Republicans block our attempts at any reform to our gun laws, and time and time again, mass shootings continue to occur. It makes me sick to my stomach.

Gun violence is a preventable problem. Other countries don’t have the same epidemic of mass shootings, but Republicans and the gun lobbies choose to look the other way while the deaths keep piling up.

On behalf of the victims from Sandy Hook, Uvalde, and my son Jordan, I promise to keep leading the fight for change in Congress until real reform is enacted. I hope that ten years from now, we can finally say that these kinds of tragedies are a thing of the past.

Sincerely,
Lucy McBath