Everytown for Gun Safety takes out full-page ad in Houston Chronicle

[babylonsister]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/everytown-gun-safety-full-page-ad-601636

Everytown for Gun Safety takes out full-page ad in Houston Chronicle
By REBECCA MORIN
05/22/2018 12:00 AM EDT


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“Our job is to be good students. Your job is to keep us safe. You have failed at your job,” the students wrote in the letter to Abbott. “Like so many politicians cozy with the NRA, you have steadfastly opposed any reasonable measures that might protect us from gun violence. Instead, you’ve signed dangerous policies to force public colleges in Texas to allow guns on campus and make it legal to openly carry firearms in public.

“You’ve continued to push the notion that guns everywhere for everyone make us safer,“ the letter continues. “By that logic, shouldn’t we be among the safest states in the nation?“

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In the ad, students called out instances in which Abbott tweeted that Texans needed to buy more guns and when he reportedly said gun violence happens because of “hearts without God.”

“Do you think that the children who were shot in class this week died because they hadn't prayed enough? What about the 26 who were killed while they were worshiping in Sutherland Springs? Do you think they are to blame, rather than yourself and other politicians who refuse to allow even a meaningful discourse on reasonable gun violence prevention policies,” the students wrote.

President Donald Trump on Friday said mass shootings have been “going on too long in our country,” but his administration has not announced major action in response to the school shootings.

The students, however, focused on Abbott, saying the state has experienced at least 20 mass shootings since January 2009. Everytown, the group founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people were shot and killed, not including the shooter.

“You’ve said that straying from Jesus is the cause of gun violence. Well, let this be your ‘come to Jesus‘ moment,” the students wrote in the letter featured in Everytown's ad. “Children are dying. We’re being shot and killed in our classrooms, homes, movie theaters — even as we walk home from school. We have become collateral damage in a country whose lawmakers refuse to stand up to people who just want to sell more guns — regardless of the body count.“

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Hoyt]

2. Excellent. Link to Ad below.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000163-84b8-d9c0-a1f3-f4b971440001

[babylonsister]

3. Thanks for that link! nt