Ban Assault Weapons
US Congressional Reps and Senators from PA
One paramount responsibility of our government is to preserve the right for its citizens to establish prosperous communities free from threats of violence. Based upon the Constitution and years of legal precedent, it has been established that lawmakers have wide leeway to restrict guns to promote public safety so long as the basic right of law-abiding people to own a gun for self-defense is preserved. There is sufficient evidence of the inadequacies of current gun control laws to reasonably protect our children from school shootings, particularly those perpetrated with assault weapons. There are no credible justifications that the need for access to assault weapons for self-defense outweighs the obligation to protect our communities, particularly our children. We must act now to address the further threat, terror and irreversible damage of this type of gun violence in our communities.
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US Congressional Reps and Senators from PA
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Offering thoughts and prayers time and time again after school and mass shootings is not sufficient to reduce violence perpetrated in US communities with assault weapons. We are utterly unsatisfied with the US Government's response to our prior requests to address the constant and growing threat of mass shootings, particularly our children. More than just an issue of political ideology, this is an issue of human ethics and decency. We implore you to introduce and support legislation to ban assault weapons. This is one of many steps that must be taken in order to address this ongoing crisis.