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September 12, 2019
Dear Members of the Senate :
Our hearts are with the victims, their families and loved ones and all those affected by the tragic
shootings El Paso and West Texas , and Dayton , Ohio . These families becamemembers of a
club that no one wants to join : the millions of Americans whose lives have been forever altered
by gun violence .
Every day , 100 Americans are shot and killed and hundreds more are wounded . These are more
than mass shootings ; in recentweeks , gun violence has devastated Chicago , Canoga Park ,
Newport News, Gilroy and Brooklyn , among others . This is a public health crisis that demands
urgent action
As leaders of some of America s most respected companies and those with significant business
interests in the United States, we are writing to you because we have a responsibility and
obligation to stand up for the safety of our employees , customers and all Americans in the
communities we serve across the country . Doing nothing America ' s gun violence crisis is
simply unacceptable and it is time to stand with the American public on gun safety .
Gun violence in America is not inevitable ; it' s preventable . There are steps Congress can , and
must, take to prevent and reduce gun violence . We need our lawmakers to support common
sense gun laws that could prevent tragedies like these .
That s why we urge the Senate to stand with the American public and take action on gun
safety by passing a bill to require background checks on all gun sales and a strong Red
Flag law that would allow courts to issue life- saving extreme risk protection orders .
Background checks and Extreme Risk laws (also referred to as " Red Flag laws" ) are proven to
save lives. Since Congress established the background check system 25 years ago , background
checks have blocked more than 3 . 5 million gun sales to prohibited purchasers, including to
convicted felons, domestic abusers, and people who have been involuntarily committed .
However, in the decades since , the law requiring background checks on gun sales has not been
updated to reflect how people buy guns today . The Senate must follow the House s lead by
passing bipartisan legislation that would update the background checks law , helping to keep guns
out of the hands of people who shouldn ' t have them , in an effort to save lives. Background
checks on all gun sales are a common - sense solution with overwhelming public support and are a
critical step toward stemming the gun violence epidemic in this country .
Perpetrators of mass shootings , school shootings, and hate crimes often display warning signs
before committing violent acts . Additionally , people who end their life with a gun also often
show signs that they are in crisis before they act Interventions in states with ExtremeRisk laws
have already prevented potential tragedies . Expanding Extreme Risk laws to enable families and
law enforcement nationwide to intervene when someone is at serious risk of hurting themselves
or others is critical to preventing future tragedies .
These proposals are common - sense , bipartisan and widely supported by the American public . It
is time for the Senate to take action .
Sincerely
Brian Chesky, Co - Founder , Head of Community and CEO , Airbnb
Keith Mestrich , Presidentand CEO , Amalgamated Bank
John Connaughton and Jonathan Lavine, Co -Managing Partners, and Josh Bekenstein and
Steve Pagliuca, Co - Chairmen , Bain Capital
Ethan Brown, Co -Founder and CEO , Beyond Meat
Peter T . Grauer, Chairman , Bloomberg LP
Ric Clark , Chairman , Brookfield Property Group
Fritz Lanman , CEO , ClassPass
Roger Lynch , CEO , CondéNast
Ken Lin , Founder and CEO , Credit Karma
Edward Stack , CEO , DICK ' S Sporting Goods
Tony Xu, Co -Founder and CEO , DoorDash
Doug Baker, Chairman and CEO , Ecolab
Richard Edelman , President and CEO , Edelman
Julia Hartz , Co - Founder and CEO , Eventbrite
Art Peck , CEO , Gap Inc .
Eddy Lu, CEO Goat Group
Ben Lerer , Co - Founder and CEO , Group Nine Media
Yannick Bolloré, CEO , Havas Group
Bill Koenigsberg, President, CEO and Founder , Horizon Media
Patrick O . Brown, MD, PhD , Founder and CEO , Impossible Foods
Michael Roth , Chairman and CEO , Interpublic
Rob Frohwein , Co - Founder and CEO , and Kathryn Petralia, Co- Founder and President,
Kabbage Inc. and Drum Technologies
Chip Bergh, President and CEO , Levi Strauss & Co .
Logan Green , Co -Founder and CEO , and John Zimmer, Co -Founder and President, Lyft
Dev Ittycheria , President and CEO , MongoDB, Inc.
Howard Marks, Co - Chairman, Oaktree CapitalManagement
Todd McKinnon , Co - Founder and CEO , Okta
John Wren , Chairman and CEO , Omnicom Group
Ben Silbermann , Co- Founder and CEO , Pinterest
Bastian Lehmann , Co - Founder & CEO , Postmates
Hamid R . Moghadam , Chairman and CEO , Prologis
Arthur Sadoun, Chairman and CEO , Publicis Groupe
Steve Huffman , CEO , Reddit
Richard Fain , CEO , Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd .
Scott Rechler, Chairman and CEO , RXR Realty
Jon Oringer, Founder and CEO , Shutterstock , .
Jack Dorsey, CEO , Square and Twitter
Anthony Casalena, Founder and CEO , Squarespace
Zander Lurie, CEO , SurveyMonkey
Arianna Huffington , Founder and CEO , Thrive Global
Blake Mycoskie, Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, and Jim Alling, CEO , TOMS
Jeff Lawson, Co - Founder and CEO Twilio
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO , Uber
Mark Read CEO , WPP
Jeremy Stoppelman, Co - Founder and CEO , Yelp
Organizations with fewer than 500 employees:
Kevin P . Ryan , Founder and CEO , AlleyCorp
Travis Truett, Co - Founder and CEO , Ambition
John W . Rogers , Jr ., Founder , Chairman and Co - CEO , and Mellody Hobson , Co - CEO &
President , Ariel Investments , LLC
Mike Steib , CEO , Artsy
Sean Knapp , Co- Founder and CEO , Ascend
Andrei Cherny , Co -Founder and CEO , Aspiration
Abdur Chowdhury , CEO , Aura
Fahim M . Aziz , Founder and CEO , Backpack
Abrams , Chairman and Co - CEO , and Katie McGrath , Co - CEO Bad Robot
Ari Paparo , CEO , BeeswaxIO Corporation
Ryan Block , Co - Founder , Begin
John Borthwick , Founder and CEO , Betaworks
Raphael Crawford -Marks, Co - Founder and CEO , Bonusly
Darren Lachtman , Co- Founder , Brat
Trevor McFedries , CEO , Brud
Sameer Shariff, Co - Founder , Cambly
Analisa Goodin , Founder and CEO , Catch & Release , Inc.
Andrew Feldman , Founder and CEO , Cerebras Systems
George Favvas , CEO , Circle Medical
Alex MacCaw , CEO , Clearbit
Tyler Bosmeny , CEO , Clever
Matt Martin , Co - Founder and CEO , Clockwise
Othman Laraki , Co -Founder and CEO Color Genomics
Jager McConnell , CEO , Crunchbase , Inc.
Apu Gupta , Co - Founder and CEO , Curalate , Inc .
David Oates , Co - Founder and CEO , Curtsy
Brian Ree , Founder and CEO , DAILYLOOK
Saurabh Ladha , CEO , Doxel , Inc .
Andy Coravos , Co - Founder and CEO , Elektra Labs
Laurene Powell Jobs , President , Emerson Collective
Pradeep Elankumaran , Co- Founder & CEO Farmstead
Desiree Gruber , CEO , Full Picture
Jared Hecht , Founder and CEO , Fundera
Jude Gomila , Founder and CEO , Golden
Rick Nucci, Co - Founder and CEO , Guru
Kara Goldin , Founder and CEO , Hint, Inc.
Jeff Sellinger , Co - Founder and CEO , HipDot
Prerna Gupta , CEO , Hooked
Cyrus Massoumi, Managing Partner , humbition
Kristin Savilia , CEO , JOOR
Pierre Valade , CEO , Jumbo Privacy
William Martino , Founder and CEO , Kadena
Jake Perlman -Garr , CEO , Kanga
Warren Shaeffer , Co - Founder and CEO , Knowable
Jack Altman , CEO Lattice
Aaron N . Block , Co - Founder and Managing Director , MetaProp .
Afton Vechery , Co - Founder and CEO , Modern Fertility
Dan Parham , Founder and CEO , and Tee Parham , Founder and CTO Neighborland
Shafqat Islam , CEO , NewsCred
Sarah Friar, CEO , Nextdoor
Athan Stephanopoulos , President, NowThis
Varsha Rao , CEO , Nurx
William E . Oberndorf , Chairman , Oberndorf Enterprises
Steven Rosenblatt , Co - Founder and General Partner , Oceans
Nick Huzar, Co - Founder and CEO , OfferUp
James Segil , Co - Founder and President , Openpath
Jordan Husney , CEO , Parabol
Doug Aley , CEO , Paravision
John Milinovich , CEO , Plato Design
Rajat Suri , CEO , Presto
Christopher Gavigan , Founder and CEO , Prima
Adam Regelmann , Founder and COO , Quartzy
Nate Maslak , Co - Founder and CEO , and Nate Fox, Co - Founder and CTO , Ribbon Health
Zachariah Reitano , Co - Founder and CEO , Ro
Gary Beasley , Co- Founder and CEO , Roofstock
Stephen Ehikian , Co - Founder and CEO , Ruist
Brian Schechter , CEO , SelfMade
Olga Vidisheva , Founder and CEO , Shoptiques Inc.
Dan Doctoroff , CEO , Sidewalk Labs
Jason Tan , CEO , Sift
Matt Cooper , CEO , Skillshare
Grant Jordan , CEO , SkySafe
Josh Guttman , Co- Founder and CEO and Florent Peyre, Co - Founder and President , Small Door
Michael Carvin , Co Founder and CEO SmartAsset
Aaron King, Founder and CEO , Snapdocs , Inc.
Neil Capel , CEO , Solve . io
Ben Hindman , Co - Founder and CEO , Splash
Evan Beard , Founder and CEO Standard Bots
Stanlee R . Gatti, Founder, Stanlee R . Gatti Designs
Bradford Oberwager , CEO , Sundia Corporation
Ross Feinstein , CEO , Sunlight Health
Paul Budnitz , CEO , Superplastic
Ron Conway , Founder , SV Angel
Heidi Zak , Co -Founder and Co -CEO , and David Spector , Co - Founder and Co - CEO ThirdLove
Yashar Nejati, CEO , thisopenspace inc .
Joshua Kushner , Founder and Managing Partner , Thrive Capital
Chris Wang, CEO , ThunderCore Inc.
Corbett Kull , CEO , Tillable
Meghan Jewitt, CEO , Uniform Teeth
Nicholas Goldner , Co- Founder and CEO , and Christopher Bulow , Co - Founder and COO
Viosera Therapeutics
Ken Chong , CEO Virtual Kitchen Co
Irv Remedios , CEO , Voxer
Oliver Cameron , Co -Founder and CEO Voyage
Chase Adam , Co -Founder and CEO , and Grace Garey , Co - Founder and COO , Watsi
Liz Wessel , Co -Founder and CEO , WayUp
Neil Waller , CEO , Whalar
Bismarck Lepe , CEO , Wizeline
Dennis R . Mortensen , Founder and CEO , x . ai, inc .
Geoff Ralston , President , Y Combinator
Shan -Lyn Ma, Co -Founder and CEO Zola
