While a community and a nation remain numb from grief, let's turn the horrific tragedy in Newtown into something positive that honors those young, innocent victims.
Please add your name and support an assault weapons ban!
How do we begin to recover?
Words cannot express our heartbreak as we
grieve for the children and educators killed in Newtown on Friday. As a father,
I cannot even begin to imagine what the victims' families are going through.
Connecticut is my home, and this senseless tragedy is unfathomable to our state
-- and the nation.
As President Obama stated in last night's press
conference, we must take responsibility for each other and we must take
responsibility to make sure this does not happen again.
Too many
families have faced heartbreak this year.
Join us in a national campaign for an
assault weapons ban.
Now is the time for life-saving,
common-sense legislation that would again ban semi-automatic weapons along with
the high-capacity magazines that feed them.
The tragic tale of these
shootings sadly repeats a common theme -- in Tucson, Aurora and Newtown, the
killer used semi-automatic guns to unleash hundreds of bullets at his
victims.
But gun violence is not new. Since 1982 more than 75% of
mass-murders were committed with legally obtained weapons and most were
semi-automatic. Of the 12 deadliest shootings in U.S. history, half have
happened since 2007 -- the last assault weapons ban bill expired in
2004.
No community should ever again have to feel this level of
grief. We must do everything we can to prevent this from happening again. Now is
the time -- we've lost too much already.
Together we can put sensible
restrictions in place to prevent future tragedy. There's more we can do --
improve background checks, closing the gun-show loophole -- but this is a
critical first step to save lives. With Members of Congress set to introduce
legislation that would bring back the assault weapons ban, now is the time to stand together and ban these killer
weapons.
Wishing you and your family peace.
- Jim
Jim Dean,
Chair
Democracy for America
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