From the Desk of Sarah Brady
Dear Brady Campaign Supporter,
A horrible school shooting occurred this Monday, when a gunman with an AK-47 automatic rifle shot and killed a student and wounded three others at a New Orleans high school.
Sadly, the death of a child like this is all too common in Louisiana. In 2000, 94 Louisiana children and teens were shot to death. In January, the annual report card of the Brady Campaign united with the Million Mom March gave Louisiana an "F" grade for failing to protect children from guns. Only six other states received an "F." Louisiana gun laws rank near the bottom in the country, and Louisiana has one of the highest gun death rates for children and teens.
Louisiana gun laws do not prohibit the sale of AK-47 style assault weapons, do not prohibit juveniles from possessing rifles and shotguns (including assault rifles), do not hold gun owners responsible for leaving loaded guns around children, do not require child-safety locks to be sold with guns, do not require background checks on all gun show sales and grant special legal immunity to the gun industry for negligent and dangerous conduct.
This tragedy should remind us all of the obvious: If America's children are to be safe from gun violence, assault weapons need to be unavailable and the Bush White House needs to stand up to the extremists and lead efforts to enforce, strengthen and renew the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
Over the weekend President Bush, through a spokesperson, re-affirmed his campaign pledge to renew the ban on assault weapons, which sunsets in September 2004. One radical gun group blasted the White House, calling assault weapons "common household guns" that should be legal and available to all.
It is appalling that assault weapons are threatening and killing children in our communities, but what is even more appalling is that NRA extremists want to do away with the Assault Weapons Ban in 2004, instead of reauthorizing and strengthening it.
Even more atrocious, Congress is in lockstep with the NRA, poised to grant sweeping legal immunity to the gun industry from lawsuits that challenge the industry to market and distribute their guns in a responsible way.
But the Brady Campaign, with your enduring support, is working hard to prevent dangerous bills like this from passing, and we are hard at work to convince Congress to reauthorize, and even strengthen, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban so that school shootings and tragic deaths like the one in New Orleans become a thing of the past.
We need your support in these efforts now more than ever. Please help us today by going to our website and making a generous donation.
To help us save lives, please go to http://www.bradycampaign.org/donate/index.asp
Dear Brady Campaign Supporter,
A horrible school shooting occurred this Monday, when a gunman with an AK-47 automatic rifle shot and killed a student and wounded three others at a New Orleans high school.
Sadly, the death of a child like this is all too common in Louisiana. In 2000, 94 Louisiana children and teens were shot to death. In January, the annual report card of the Brady Campaign united with the Million Mom March gave Louisiana an "F" grade for failing to protect children from guns. Only six other states received an "F." Louisiana gun laws rank near the bottom in the country, and Louisiana has one of the highest gun death rates for children and teens.
Louisiana gun laws do not prohibit the sale of AK-47 style assault weapons, do not prohibit juveniles from possessing rifles and shotguns (including assault rifles), do not hold gun owners responsible for leaving loaded guns around children, do not require child-safety locks to be sold with guns, do not require background checks on all gun show sales and grant special legal immunity to the gun industry for negligent and dangerous conduct.
This tragedy should remind us all of the obvious: If America's children are to be safe from gun violence, assault weapons need to be unavailable and the Bush White House needs to stand up to the extremists and lead efforts to enforce, strengthen and renew the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
Over the weekend President Bush, through a spokesperson, re-affirmed his campaign pledge to renew the ban on assault weapons, which sunsets in September 2004. One radical gun group blasted the White House, calling assault weapons "common household guns" that should be legal and available to all.
It is appalling that assault weapons are threatening and killing children in our communities, but what is even more appalling is that NRA extremists want to do away with the Assault Weapons Ban in 2004, instead of reauthorizing and strengthening it.
Even more atrocious, Congress is in lockstep with the NRA, poised to grant sweeping legal immunity to the gun industry from lawsuits that challenge the industry to market and distribute their guns in a responsible way.
But the Brady Campaign, with your enduring support, is working hard to prevent dangerous bills like this from passing, and we are hard at work to convince Congress to reauthorize, and even strengthen, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban so that school shootings and tragic deaths like the one in New Orleans become a thing of the past.
We need your support in these efforts now more than ever. Please help us today by going to our website and making a generous donation.
To help us save lives, please go to http://www.bradycampaign.org/donate/index.asp
And this is from the same mommy who purchased a rifle in another state, not of her residence, for her son, who possibly was not eligable to purchase, with funds that are of a questionable nature.:banghead: