Newtown Action Alliance Endorse Senate Incumbents and Candidates Who Support Assault Weapons Ban
For Immediate Release:
September 30, 2022
Newtown Action Alliance Endorse Senate Incumbents and Candidates
Who Support Assault Weapons Ban
Newtown, CT - Newtown Action Alliance (NAA) is proud to endorse Senate incumbents and candidates who support the assault weapons ban legislation for the 2022 Midterm Elections.
For 10 years after a 20-year-old gunman with an AR-15 and high-capacity magazines killed 20 children and six educators in Sandy Hook Elementary School, NAA has been advocating for a set of bold and comprehensive gun control legislation - including assault weapons ban - to dramatically reduce all forms of gun violence in our nation.
In 2019, NAA joined a coalition of gun violence prevention survivors, advocates and researchers from across the country at the GVPedia Conference in Denver, Colorado, to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Columbine shooting, and to forge a path forward to a safer America. From this assembly the Denver Accordwas born, a declaration of guiding principles and policies to end the scourge of gun violence in America.
NAA has fully endorsed GVPedia’s Denver Accord principles that acknowledge 1) Guns do not make us safer; 2) Gun violence in America is a pervasive public health crisis that demands substantial policy solutions and well-funded programs that effectively reduce gun violence; 3) Equitable and just enforcement of gun laws is paramount; and 4) Everyone has the right to live free from violence.
NAA will continue to urge all members of Congress to fully support the Denver Accord. Meanwhile, NAA is endorsing Senate incumbents and candidates who support legislation to ban assault weapons in order to keep weapons of war away from school and mass shooters, keeping our children, loved ones, and communities safe.
The House of Representatives passed the assault weapons ban legislation on Jul 29, 2022, and President Joe Biden has repeatedly signaled that he would sign the bill into law and told a crowd in August that "If we elect two more [Democratic] senators, we got a lot of unfinished business we're gonna get done. Folks, look, we're gonna codify Roe v Wade. We'll ban assault weapons…”
Only 12 Senate Democrats and 50 Senate Republicans are blocking the assault weapons ban legislation. A recent Navigator Research showed that 89% of Americans fear school shootings.
Since Sandy Hook, there have been nearly 4,000 mass shootings and over 350,000 Americans have been killed by guns. The following Senate candidates have honored all victims of gun violence with action and commitment to end the gun violence public health crisis in our nation.
SENATE INCUMBENTS:
Senator Alex Padilla, D-California
Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut
Senator Raphael Warnock, D-Georgia
Senator Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii
Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland
Senator Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire
Senator Charles Schumer, D-New York
Senator Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois
Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon
Senator Patty Murray, D-Washington
HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES SEEKING SENATE SEATS:
Representative Val Demings, D-Florida
Representative Tim Ryan, D-Ohio
Representative Peter Welch, D-Vermont
CHALLENGERS;
Charles Booker, D-Kentucky
Gary Chambers, D-Louisiana
Cheri Beasley, D-North Carolina
John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania
Mandela Barnes, D-Wisconsin
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Newtown Action Alliance (https://www.newtownactionalliance.org/) is a Newtown-based, national grassroots organization formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Our mission is to achieve the steady and continuous reduction of gun violence through legislative and cultural changes.