From Stop the NRA...

My heart continues to ache for the victims, their families, and the Virginia Tech community. After my husband was shot by a deranged man, our lives were never the same. But at some point, Jim and I decided to stop hurting and take action.

Eight years ago today was the horrific tragedy at Columbine High School. And in that eight years, no significant action has been taken in our country to prevent gun violence.

Elected officials continue to ignore our gun violence problem. It’s time for them to answer one question: "What are YOU going to do about it?"

We’re waging a campaign to ask our nation's leaders . . . the President, the Congress, the presidential candidates, state officials and local governments . . . asking them, "What are YOU going to do about it?"

32 people were murdered on Monday at Virginia Tech
32 people are murdered every day by gun violence in America

As a nation we must do better

A clever donor has started her own email campaign asking her contacts to contribute $32 or more today to help sustain our campaign to ask our nation’s leaders, "What are YOU going to do about it?"

What a great idea. Will you join her by making a gift today and asking your contacts to join you?

Right now, we are focusing on the Presidential candidates all of whom have been disturbingly silent on the issue.

Call those who want to be President, and ask them "What are YOU going to do about it? What we're doing now is not working. Doing nothing is not an option. Please take action now."

Your support is the life of our campaign. This is an unbudgeted project that can only be sustained with your generous support today.

We can no longer wait and we must take action . . . too many lives are being lost. So today, I respectfully ask, "What are YOU going to do about it?"

Warm regards and growing optimism,

Sarah Brady, Chair
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do Sarah. I'm going to contact 32 friends and ask them to each contribute $3.20 or $32 or $320 or $3200 as they can afford to a pro-gun organization of their choice and to contact 32 of their friends to do the same. You see Sarah, it might just have been that if a student had not been denied his/her CHP use on campus or the magistrate had not made Cho's committment voluntary or if... well it goes on and on but the upshot is that a gun didn't do the deed, Seung-hui Cho killed those people. He was insane. Hinckley was insane. Do you see a pattern? Maybe you ought to go round up 32 crazy people. Might be more efficient. And since doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result is insane perhaps you can check in to a facility yourself. IF you need references, just point to the gun-"free" zones in Washington, D.C., Virginia Tech, New York City where criminals still committ the criminal act of murder against the defenseless due to misguided attempts to disarm the lawabiding while criminals obey no laws.

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