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Follow example set by state of New York in enacting comprehensive measures aimed at reducing gun violence in America

Created by K.L. on January 15, 2013

Please act now. The stats are sobering:
• Between 1980 and 2012, 300 people have been killed in gun violence in schools (Kirk, 2012).
• 100,000 people a year are shot in America (Bradycampaign.org, 2011).
• Every day, eight children are killed by guns (Bradycampaign.org, 2011).
• Nearly 3,000 kids every year will die from gun murder, suicide, accidental, death, or police intervention (Bradycampaign.org, 2011).
• Between 2000 and 2009, more than 298,000 people were killed by gunshots in the United States (Waters, 2012).
• Of the 62 mass shootings carried out in America since 1982, the killers obtained weapons weapons legally in 49 cases. Of the 142 weapons in the killers’ possession, 68 were semi-automatic weapons, and 35 were assault weapons (Follman, Aronsen, and Pan, 2012)

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