Six years ago today, 20 children and six educators had their lives taken by a horrific act of gun violence at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, CT. The victims, survivors and Newtown community remain forever in our hearts as we work together for a future free from gun violence.
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We remember the 20 students and 6 educators whose lives were taken in the shooting at Sandy Hook School five years ago.
We’re committed to honoring all victims and survivors of gun violence with action today and every day.
Two years ago, our hearts were broken when 26 beautiful lives were taken from us in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
We will never forget. We will never be silent. And we won’t stop fighting until we fix our broken gun laws.
Four years ago, 20 children and 6 educators were killed during a shooting at Sandy Hook School.
Every day we fight for them, and all victims and survivors of gun violence.
As you enter Newtown, Connecticut, the town appears suddenly out of rolling canopies of changing foliage. The spire of a church and the tower of the town hall poke through the trees. During workshops to discuss the redesign of Sandy Hook Elementary, this was the image that emerged as the…
Every year, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, the Principal of Sandy Hook School, would say this quote to her students:
Now, you can help spread Dawn’s message across the country. The Be Nice t-shirt honors the small acts of kindness and courage that define our movement to reduce gun violence.
The NRA released required financial information by the IRS for the most profitable year for donations ever recorded, roughly $91 million more than in 2012.
Photos from our first concert last week, Turn Up for Turnout! in Nashville, TN.
Majority of Kroger Customers Want an End to Open Carry
After more than 300,000 petition signatures and nearly 13,000 phone calls demanding that the nation’s largest supermarket chain stop allowing the open carry of guns in its stores, a new poll conducted by Benenson Strategy Group released today shows 64 percent of Kroger shoppers polled believe people should not be able to openly carry guns in Kroger stores.
Despite this opposition to Kroger’s policy allowing open carry of firearms — and even though a majority of states allow people to openly carry firearms without a background check, training or permit — Kroger so far has sided with a small group of gun extremists and refused to change its policy.
While Kroger has not yet changed its open carry policy, in recent weeks, New Seasons Market, a chain of more than a dozen grocery stores located in Oregon and Washington, and Panera Bread recently joined other major brands, including Target, Starbucks, Chipotle, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chili’s, in asking guests to leave their firearms at home.
Kroger claims to be a ‘Family of Stores,’ so where are their family values?
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Saturday is the first day of National Gun Violence Survivors Week – when we ask everyone to shine a spotlight on the stories of Americans who have had loved ones taken by gun violence, who have been wounded or threatened with a gun, or witnessed a shooting.
We’ll be sharing the stories of survivors and statistics that highlight the impact of gun violence.
