Monday, June 20, 2016

Today: Vote on gun sale background checks

Tonight's Senate vote could save lives.

Dear MoveOn member,

This evening, my Senate colleagues and I will vote on legislation requiring background checks as part of all gun sales, and I need your help right now to get it passed. It's important that every senator—including gun-safety champions and those who have stood with the gun lobby before—hear support for this common sense measure today.

Will you phone your senators and my colleagues, Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand, and ask them to stand with me to make our communities safer by passing legislation that will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others who shouldn’t have them?

Here’s where to phone:

    Sen. Schumer - (202) 224-6542

    Sen. Gillibrand - (202) 224-4451

    You can say: "I urge you to stand up to the NRA and vote 'YES' tonight on S.2934, which requires background checks as part of all gun sales. This is a common sense measure supported by Democrats, Republicans, and the majority of gun owners. This bill will save lives and I hope that you will vote 'YES'."

    When you’re done, please report the details of your call by clicking here.

    After last week’s tragic shooting in Orlando, FL—one of the deadliest mass shootings in our nation’s history—it's urgent that Congress take meaningful action and do its part to stem the epidemic levels of gun violence that plague our nation.

    That’s why last week, with the support of more than 30 of my colleagues, I led a filibuster on the Senate floor for almost 15 hours. One of my demands was that my colleagues agree to hold a vote on background checks as part of all gun sales. And I can tell you that as the hours progressed, my colleagues heard your calls for change grow louder and louder.

    Will you phone Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand right now and ask them to vote “YES” on a bill that will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others who shouldn’t have them?

    Here’s where to phone:

      Sen. Schumer - (202) 224-6542

      Sen. Gillibrand - (202) 224-4451

      You can say: "I urge you to stand up to the NRA and vote 'YES' tonight on S.2934, which requires background checks as part of all gun sales. This is a common sense measure supported by Democrats, Republicans, and the majority of gun owners. This bill will save lives and I hope that you will vote 'YES'."

      When you’re done, please report the details of your call by clicking here.

      Whether it’s a shooting in an urban center, or mass shootings fueled by racism, rage against women, or homophobia, I shudder to think about what it says about us as a nation if we don’t make every effort to end this carnage.

      This bill will save lives. Please pick up the phone and call Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand right now.

      Thanks for all you do.

      —Chris Murphy
      U.S. Senator, Connecticut

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