John—Today marks the start of Black History Month and National Gun Violence Survivors Week.

By early February, more people are killed by guns in the United States than are killed in our peer countries in an entire calendar year.

This week, we honor every life that has been impacted by gun violence—from the 40,000 people killed and 100,000 people wounded each year to the countless others who have lost a loved one to this epidemic or who have experienced the trauma of shootings. You do not have to be struck by a bullet to be a survivor of gun violence.

HONOR SURVIVORS WITH ACTION: [link removed]

The gun violence epidemic impacts all of us, but it doesn’t impact us equally. As Black History Month begins, we want to draw attention to the outsized impact this crisis has on our Black communities. Black people in the United States are 10 times as likely to die by gun homicide as white people.

We refuse to sit on the sidelines as gun violence steals more than 120 American lives every single day. Please, join us in honoring all victims and survivors of gun violence with action. Contact your US Representative and urge them to act on gun violence prevention by supporting a federal safe storage law: [link removed].

Thank you,
Renée (she/her)

P.S. We are collecting stories of survivors of gun violence. If you are interested in sharing your story on our website, social media, or in our emails, please reply to this email.


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