Newtown Action Alliance Statement on the Deadly Nashville School Shooting
For Immediate Release
March 27, 2023
Contact:
John Kelley
917-679-6475
jkelley@newtownaction.org
Newtown Action Alliance Statement on the Deadly Nashville School Shooting
Newtown, CT - Po Murray, Chairwoman of Newtown Action Alliance, released the following statement in response to three children and three educators being hunted and killed by a 28-year-old female with assault weapons in Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
“Our hearts are with the Nashville families and their community and we make a commitment to continue to fight for the assault weapons ban legislation to end the cycle of deadly school shootings in the U.S. Assault weapons are the weapons of choice for school shooters, other mass shooters, Mexican drug cartels, and white extremists.
On Friday, the survivors growing up during the Generation Lockdown held a rally in D.C. — in the rain — to beg Congress to ban assault weapons once again.
Since 20 children and six educators were killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School, we have worked unapologetically for over a decade to pass the assault weapons ban legislation. After 30 years of inaction, the 117th House of Representatives finally passed the ban last year but the 117th Senate failed to act and now more children and educators have been killed.
More than 13.7 million AR-15s have been manufactured since Congress failed to ban assault weapons after Sandy Hook and the sale of these weapons of war resulted in $11 billion in revenue for the gun industry. The Members of Congress will have more blood of children and educators on their hands and they will help the gun executives line their pockets with blood money if they do not pass the ban.
Enough is enough! The time is now for Congress to vote and pass the ban and deliver it to President Biden’s desk rather than continuing to arm future school shooters with assault weapons.
It’s time for Senators Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, Representative Andy Ogles, and other Members of Congress to honor the victims with action rather than sending only thoughts and prayers and stop glorifying weapons of war.”
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Newtown Action Alliance (http://alliance.newtownaction.org/) is a Newtown-based, national grassroots organization formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Our mission is to achieve the steady and continuous reduction of gun violence through legislative and cultural changes.