Tell Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
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Dear Friend,
Over the Lunar New Year holidays, celebrated by millions of Asian
Americans across the country, a man opened fire at a dance studio in
Monterey Park, California (a majority Asian American community), killing
11 and injuring nine more. Barely two days later, a second mass shooting
involving Asians, in Half Moon Bay, took another seven lives.
It’s not even the end of January, and our nation has already experienced
39 separate mass shootings.^1 We need comprehensive gun reform now,
starting with a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines!
[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
While details are still emerging from both shooting tragedies, we know
that the Monterey Park shooter used an assault pistol and high-capacity
magazines. Assault weapons are not designed for hunting or for shooting
sports, they are designed to efficiently kill as many people as possible
in the shortest amount of time available. Brandon Tsay, one of the
Monterey Park heroes who disarmed the shooter, said when he saw the
shooter’s weapon, “How it was built and customized, I knew it wasn’t for
robbing money…From his body language, his facial expression, his eyes, he
was looking for people.^2”
The number of mass shootings terrorizing communities every year is rising
rapidly, from 273 in 2014 to 647 in 2020^3, more than doubling in less
than a decade. In the face of such horrific gun violence that devastates
families and communities for generations, Republicans in Congress should
not be glorifying guns, and there is no more obvious example of that
glorification than the fact that assault weapons and high capacity
magazines designed for war remain in wide circulation among civilians.
[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress to stop glorifying guns, and ban assault weapons and
high-capacity magazines now.
Military-style, semi-automatic assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
are designed for war, and are the weapons of choice for mass shooters,
used in the heartbreaking mass shooting tragedies in Highland Park,
Uvalde, Tulsa, and Buffalo. The sheer number of firearms in the United
States, plus the inexcusably easy access to them, is the root cause of our
unique and tragic epidemic of gun violence, which takes lives every single
day.
America’s moms do not want to raise our kids in a society where schools,
grocery stores, spas, clubs, churches, synagogues, mosques, movie
theaters, and other venues – and even our holidays – are not safe.
[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines now.
* Please forward this email to everyone you know who is concerned about
gun violence, and ask them to sign too. The more of us who take action and
speak out, the faster we can move gun safety policy forward and save
lives.
We will never stop fighting for the safety of our families and
communities.
In solidarity and love,
- Gloria, Kristin, Donna, Monifa, Jessica, Nate, and the entire
MomsRising/MamásConPoder team
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