They were children when a gunman opened fire at their primary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Now teenagers, they came to Washington to join Parkland survivors.
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Until recently, advocates for gun control hadn’t realized what their movement was missing: fearless, outraged teen-agers. On Saturday morning, in Washington, D.C., students and parents gathered to protest the lenient gun laws that allow for endless mass shootings in America. Many had orange price tags dangling from their wrists: $1.05, the amount the National Rifle Association donated to the Republican senator Marco Rubio, divided by the number of students in Florida, the state he represents. A massive sound system broadcast pop songs: Kesha’s “Tik Tok,” Britney Spears’s “Toxic,” the Killers’ “Mr. Brightside.” The mood was celebratory, but determined.
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s Emma Gonzalez, the teenage activist from Parkland, Fla., stood in rigid silence on stage before hundreds of thousands of people in Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon, another survivor of a school massacre began to squirm.
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Lauren Milgram has a mission. The sweet and funny, shy yet confident, 12-year-old will join an anticipated hundreds of thousands of people at the March for Our Lives in Washington on Saturday.
The screams for change by survivors of a school shooting are very personal for her. Because for almost half her life, Lauren has been a survivor, too.
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We are families, survivors and advocates directly impacted by gun violence in America, writing to you with our most heartfelt gratitude. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for flexing your corporate muscle to take a stand against the gun violence epidemic that plagues far too many American schools, communities, churches, malls, movie theaters, and city streets.
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We shed tears for the Parkland community. Those of us living in Newtown lived through the same senseless and preventable school shooting in 2012. Today, we are full of outrage and we are making a pledge to vote out all politicians who take blood money from the NRA.
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We are families, survivors and advocates directly impacted by gun violence in America, writing to you with our most heartfelt gratitude. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for flexing your corporate muscle to take a stand against the gun violence epidemic that plagues far too many American schools, communities, churches, malls, movie theaters, and city streets.
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After the latest mass shooting incident that killed 17 students and teachers at Parkland Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, expectations were that interest in yet another tragic story of gun violence would soon fade from the headlines. But something is different this time. Student survivors of the Parkland massacre refused to let their grief and trauma stop them from speaking out and becoming active in the campaign to rein in gun violence.
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On Valentine’s Day, 17 students and educators were brutally murdered by a 19-year-old gunman who was legally able to purchase a Smith & Wesson M&P15 assault rifle. Once again, House Speaker Paul Ryan has offered up his thoughts and prayers and has refused to allow a vote on any and all gun control legislative proposals that would prevent these mass shooting tragedies, gun suicides and everyday gun violence in America.
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After the deadly Aurora, Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Orlando, Las Vegas, Sutherland mass shootings, the U.S. Congress took no action to keep all citizens safe from weapons of war and now 17 families from Parkland have been devastated by another senseless and preventable act of gun violence.
Read MoreIn the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 students and faculty members were killed on February 14, Newtown Action Alliance (NAA) led a community meeting at Edmond Town Hall on Wednesday, February 21, to discuss ways they can take a stand against gun violence in America.
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Dear Governor Rick Scott, Senate President Joe Negron, House Speaker Richard Corcoran, and Senate Judiciary Chairman Greg Steube: We send you our thoughts and prayers for the loss of your constituents to another heartbreaking mass shooting incident in the State of Florida. Your state is now the home of the two deadliest mass shooting incidents in modern U.S. history.
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We send our love, support and prayers to the students, staff, first responders and community members of Parkland, Florida, who have been impacted by the devastating school shooting yesterday. Here in Newtown, we endured a similar day of terror due to a gunman with an AR-15 and high capacity magazines – weapons that belong in wars and not in the hands of civilians.
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December 14, 2017 is the five-year mark of the Sandy Hook tragedy when a gunman suffering from mental illness used an AR-15 with high capacity magazines to brutally murder 20 children and six educators. Since that horrific day, over 500,000 Americans have been killed or injured by guns and there have been more than 1,500 mass shooting incidents in America.
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Gun Violence Prevention Task Force
Member Bills and Resolutions in the 115th Congress
A joint press conference will be held to implore the U.S. House of Representatives to oppose the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, the “arm anyone” bill, the egregious NRA proposal that would effectively allow states with the weakest gun laws to supersede gun laws in states like Connecticut and California with the strongest gun laws in the nation.
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We are a group of families and survivors directly impacted by all forms of gun violence in America. Last week, the House Judiciary Committee passed the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, a proposal that would make it legal for more dangerous and untrained people to carry loaded, hidden guns in more public places.
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Our hearts are broken for the families impacted by the worst mass shooting in Texas history. We send our love and support to the community of Sutherland Springs. We know firsthand that the road to recovery and healing for the community will be long and difficult.
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On Sunday, October 1, 2017, 58 victims were senselessly massacred and nearly 500 victims injured in an act of domestic terrorism in Las Vegas — the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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Campaign Against Assault Weapons
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