we have to ban these death machines

 

I just wanted to make sure you saw my earlier note. It’s copied below in case you missed it.

- Robert

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Here is a list of mass shootings in the U.S. over the past decade in which ten or more people were killed by a shooter who used at least one assault weapon:

2022 — 21 people killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

2022 — 10 people killed at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

2021 — 10 people killed at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.

2019 — 23 people killed at a big-box store in El Paso, Texas.

2019 — 12 people killed at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

2018 — 12 people killed at a bar and grill in Thousand Oaks, California.

2018 — 11 people killed at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2018 — 17 people killed at high school in Parkland, Florida.

2017 — 26 people killed at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

2017 — 60 people killed at a music festival in Paradise, Nevada.

2016 — 49 people killed at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

2015 — 14 people killed at a conference center in San Bernardino, California.

2012 — 27 people killed at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

2012 — 12 people killed at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

Looking at just the most horrific massacres — where ten or more of our fellow Americans are gunned down by a madman wielding military-grade weaponry — we are averaging one every eight-and-a-half months.

Other countries have banned these weapons in response to a single such massacre.

This country even banned at least some assault weapons for ten years, from 1994 to 2004.

These weapons exist for exactly one reason — to kill multiple people as quickly and violently as possible.

Yet Americans own millions upon millions of these death machines.

Are we really so eager to go to war with each other?

Tell Congress:

Stop the insanity. This isn’t about “freedom.” Or hunting. Or self-defense. Pass legislation to ban assault weapons AND to claw back the millions that are already in circulation. Now!

Add your name.

Thank you for taking action.

For progress,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
 
 

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