Newton Residents Call For Gun Control At Town Hearing

On January 30, 2013, during a six-hour hearing inside Newton High School, parents, top local officials, and law enforcement officers made an impassioned call for stricter gun-control measures following the massacre of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school on December 14. 

The guns used in the Newton, Connecticut massacre were legally purchased.

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Gabrielle Giffords Speaks At Senate Gun Hearing

On January 30, 2013, former Representative, Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously wounded in a mass shooting two years ago, urged senators to "be bold, be courageous" in addressing gun violence during the year's first congressional committee hearing on gun violence.

The gun that injured Ms. Giffords was legally purchased.

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Outraged? Take Action Now!

If it was illegal to own semiautomatic weapons, the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School wouldn't have happened.

The killer's mother wouldn't have had them in the house for the killer to access.

This woman (who may have believed guns would make her safe) was killed with her own weapon.

A semiautomatic weapon ban would have also prevented:

• the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting
• the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting
• the Oregon mall shooting
• the Columbine massacre
• the Virginia Tech massacre
• the Tuscon, AZ shooting that included Gabrielle Giffords
• and many, many others

All these crimes were carried out with legally owned semiautomatic weapons.

It's not hard to see how to stop this.

Please sign the petition.
 

Gun Owner Accidentally Kills Himself at Gun Range in South Carolina

On November 29, 2012, a gun owner kills himself with his semiautomatic pistol at a firing range in West Columbia, South Carolina.

The semiautomatic handgun was legally obtained.

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Connecticut Elementary School Shooting

On December 14, 2012, a man kills 26, including 20 young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, and then kills himself.

Before the school massacre, he had killed his mother with her own weapon (which she may have purchased for "protection").

The semiautomatic weapons used to carry out the attack were legally obtained by the killer’s mother.

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Oregon Mall Shooting

On December 11, 2012, a gunman kills two people and severely injures another before killing himself at a mall near Portland, Oregon. 

The AR-15 assault rifle used to carry out the attack was stolen from a friend of the killer, who had legally obtained it.

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