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Take It From the Kids: Guns Are the Only Back-to-School Topic We Should Be Talking About

When will we finally get serious about gun safety?

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Published on: September 18, 2019

If you haven’t watched this new public service ad from Sandy Hook Promise that was just released on YouTube today, stop what you're doing and watch it now.

Take it from the children: All the back-to-school preparation in the world is pointless if we can’t take action to end gun violence in America. There have been over 2,226 mass shootings in the United States since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, with over 2,500 people killed and 9,307 wounded. And still there are not enough comprehensive national gun safety measures to keep kids safe from school shootings.

We need commonsense gun laws now. Want to know what you can do to help end gun violence in the U.S.? Start here.

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