Content Warning: This email contains details about gun violence.

This is a longer email about our efforts to end gun violence. Please read through, then sign our petition if you support passing common sense gun safety reform.

Folks,

We have a gun violence epidemic in this country.

We all see the headlines. It began with Columbine in 1999. Then Aurora. And Sandy Hook. Parkland. STEM School. Uvalde. Colorado Springs. The list goes on.

In 2022 alone, The Gun Violence Archive recorded 648 mass shootings — marking the second-deadliest year on record. It came right behind 2021, when there were 690 mass shootings.

Let this sink in: There were more mass shootings than days in the year.

You might be asking yourself, “How did we let ourselves get to this point?”

There isn’t one simple answer to this question, but here’s one reason: As mass shootings climbed, politicians didn’t have the courage to take action. They would follow the same playbook:

Acknowledge there was a shooting
Offer thoughts and prayers
Do nothing to actually solve gun violence

And to thank these politicians for their silence, the NRA would hand them their coveted “A” rating and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for their re-election campaigns.

This cycle has led to major consequences for our country — including allowing military-grade weapons back on our streets.

We don’t have to live like this.

When Jason was first elected to this seat — the same year as Parkland — he promised Coloradans that he would fight to protect our communities from gun violence. We took a huge step forward when we passed the The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. This marked the first time Congress passed significant gun measures in nearly 30 years, and it is does big things:

The law saves lives by requiring young people ages 18 to 21 to undergo enhanced background checks
It narrows the “boyfriend loophole” to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers
It expands mental health services in schools and communities
Finally, it sets aside millions of dollars for states to fund intervention programs, including mental health and drug courts

We’ve made meaningful progress on gun safety, but there’s still more to do. Now, we need to continue our fight to pass common sense policies — starting by bringing back our ban on military-grade weapons.

In 1994, Congress took the monumental step to ban assault weapons like AR-15s and outlawed most high-capacity magazines for a decade. The ban worked. It reduced the number of people killed in mass shootings and helped get military-style weapons off our streets.

But when the ban was set to expire, Congress failed to renew it. We must summon the courage to take action on gun violence again.

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We cannot normalize these horrific acts of gun violence. Enough is enough. The time to act is now.

Thank you,

— Team Crow

Now more than ever, we need strong leaders like Jason working for us in Congress. Jason is fighting for you, your family, and the American people in Congress — and he's not taking a dime of corporate PAC money. Will you pitch in now to help him continue working for us?

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