John, I'm only in high school, but I've already been affected
by gun violence multiple times in my life.

It does not have to be this way.

Young survivors like myself are leading the charge to hold the gun
industry accountable for its role in this crisis. It cannot continue to
flood our communities with guns and weaken our laws without consequences.

As we end National Gun Violence Survivors Week, join me in honoring my
fellow survivors with action: [ [link removed] ]Add your name to hold the gun industry
accountable.

[ [link removed] ]ADD MY NAME

For young survivors of gun violence like me, this crisis has shaped our
lives. In first grade, my elementary school went on lockdown when an armed
man tried to get in. At my old high school, I experienced another major
lockdown. In just the last few months, my brother has been robbed at
gunpoint and I've witnessed someone get shot. In mid-December, I was held
at gunpoint a minute away from home.

Gun violence has traumatized my generation. Right now, it's the number one
killer of children and teens in the U.S.

But we also know a future free from this crisis is possible. We can hold
the gun industry—which rakes in an estimated $9 billion each
year—accountable for putting profit over people's lives.

Our country has done it before, changing the culture around everything
from smoking to seatbelts. I know this movement is more than up for the
task to do the same when it comes to guns.

Thank you for being a part of this movement, and for honoring survivors
like me with action.

Ashley Castillo
She/Her/Hers
Everytown Survivor Network

P.S. [ [link removed] ]Read and share the stories of other survivor changemakers at
Moments That Survive.


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