Friend,

It’s been a heartbreaking five years since the massacre of our kids and educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Last night, we waited and watched in horror for hours as local first responders tried to protect an entire campus of students at Michigan State University. There have been more than 900 school shootings between Parkland’s and MSU’s, and this year alone, there have already been 67 mass shootings. That’s more than one mass shooting per day.

No one action is going to solve this crisis that has spiraled out of control, but there are things we can do. And it is unconscionable to do nothing.

Congress must restore an assault weapons ban. We know it saves lives. In the years that the assault weapons ban was in place, the number of mass shootings went down. In the years since it expired, mass shootings have become our new normal.

Today, on the fifth anniversary of the Parkland shooting and as people in Michigan begin to try to piece their lives together, tell Congress to reauthorize the assault weapons ban.

Please, write to Congress now—for our schools, for the memories of those we’ve lost, and so that no one will have to go through this again.

In unity,
Randi Weingarten
AFT President