With 59 people dead and over 500 people injured in the recent shooting in Las Vegas, we can no longer sit back and allow our country to be used as a shooting gallery for people with problems.
This continued gun violence is unacceptable and we need to make the lives of our representatives uncomfortable. Today we begin a campaign to End Gun Violence. Please email, tweet, Facebook post or call your governors, state and federal representatives with one or more of these simple messages. Click the links to download shareable graphics aka memes.
We need tougher background checks!
Reinstate the Federal Assault Weapons Ban!
Doing Nothing About Gun Violence Is No Longer Acceptable!
Overturn Stand Your Ground laws!
Use this link to find government representatives from city mayors to senators and their contact and social media information: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
If you would like to call, click here for a sample call script:
If you would like to email, click here for sample email script:
A Tweet Storm Is Planned Starting Friday Through Sunday. Everyone possible should participate. If you don't have a twitter account you can quickly make one at Twitter.com. It only takes a couple of minutes. Be sure to add a picture to your profile, it gives you more credibility. When you Tweet your Senator and Governor, use the hashtag #GunControlNow
You can use the free site Tweetdeck to set up scheduled and automated tweets. Let your representatives know how you feel several times a day. Go to https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ and add in your twitter account. Click on new Tweet, type what you want to say and schedule it. You can schedule multiple tweets for various dates and times.
Click here for a list of Senators Twitter accounts.
Click here is a list of Governors Twitter accounts
Find out if your congress members have taken money from the NRA and call them out for it. Luckily most Democrats have not received donations from the NRA.
This is a problem we can all help solve. Your participation is essential.