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Last night, the President said it well:
Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence – they deserve a simple vote.
The President and Vice President have laid out a plan to curb the rampant violence in our communities caused by guns falling into the wrong hands. We must not rest until our legislators do everything in their power to protect our families, our friends, and our entire communities from the constant loss of life caused by gun violence. We must not accept that nothing can be done, because doing nothing hasn’t worked.
Bills to protect our communities have been introduced. Now, our legislators need to vote.
We need you to call your representatives right now. They need to hear from you immediately to tell them that you will not accept inaction. Tell them they need to side with the American people who want real solutions to gun violence. Call your legislators and tell them that you support:
1) Background checks with every gun sale;
2) A ban on military style assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines;
3) Making gun trafficking a federal crime with real consequences; and
4) Background checks on the sale of ammunition.
Find your member of Congress now and call: http://bit.ly/myrepresentative
All of our legislators — no matter where they fall on this issue — are constantly hearing from those who want them to side with NRA lobbyists and gun manufacturers, people more interested in making money than protecting our communities. Don’t let them drown out your voice for the sake of greed and profit.
We all deserve to be free from the constant threat of gun violence in our neighborhoods, in our movie theaters, in our places of worship, and in our schools.
Call right now. It is time to get this done.
Thanks again,
Robyn
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Robyn Thomas
Executive Director
Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence |
The letter below is from our friends at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
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