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19 children and 2 adults were shot dead yesterday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The children were second, third, and fourth-graders. Both adults were teachers at the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the nine and a half years since 20 first-graders and 6 teachers were massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, there have been 900 incidents<\/a> of gunfire on school grounds and nearly 3,500 mass shootings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A week and a half ago, a white supremacist opened fire at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, N.Y., killing 10 people who were grocery shopping on a Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States is the only country on earth with frequent mass shootings. The only one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do we stand for this carnage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After mass shootings in other countries, elected leaders put an end to them by passing common sense laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, despite overwhelming public support for common sense gun safety laws, lawmakers are unwilling to stand up to the gun lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will this time be different? Or will Republican members of Congress once again block broadly popular legislation that would prevent mass shootings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It depends on whether we \u2014 the overwhelming majority of Americans who support universal background checks and oppose the sale of weapons of war \u2014 insist this time be different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please sign up with Everytown for Gun Safety<\/a> today and keep using your voice and your vote until politicians prioritize lives over the gun lobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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