Tell Congress: Keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people

Tell Congress: Keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people

The Issue

Every day that goes by without reform, 34 more Americans are murdered with guns. That’s the equivalent of a Virginia Tech massacre every 24 hours.

That’s why a coalition of more than 600 Mayors has joined together to call on Congress to finally fix loopholes in our background check system that allow dangerous people to get their hands on guns.

More than 400,000 Americans have signed our petition. And legislation to fix gun checks has been introduced in the Senate and House. 

From Virginia Tech to Tucson, we’ve seen the deadly cost of our broken background check system. Please stand up and help protect our communities from senseless gun crime.

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Everytown for Gun SafetyPetition StarterPatton has spent years making an impact as an organizer, campaign manager and consultant. Online and off, his clients have consistently won tough campaigns, raising millions of dollars, driving millions of actions, moving millions of voters, and picking up a couple of Pollie Awards along the way. As a campaigner, he's run legislative races in the middle of nowhere and coordinated government relations efforts for large national advocacy groups. As a consultant, Patton developed media and strategy for Democratic candidates and unions as Senior Strategist at Compass Media Group in Chicago, provided fundraising and advocacy strategy for major nonprofits as Senior Account Executive at Donordigital in Berkeley, and did a fair bit of solo work in those fields. As Senior Campaign Strategist at <a href="http://Change.org" rel="nofollow">Change.org</a>, he can't wait to tie it all together. Patton is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He lives in Oakland with his wife and a pretty awesome puppy.
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The Issue

Every day that goes by without reform, 34 more Americans are murdered with guns. That’s the equivalent of a Virginia Tech massacre every 24 hours.

That’s why a coalition of more than 600 Mayors has joined together to call on Congress to finally fix loopholes in our background check system that allow dangerous people to get their hands on guns.

More than 400,000 Americans have signed our petition. And legislation to fix gun checks has been introduced in the Senate and House. 

From Virginia Tech to Tucson, we’ve seen the deadly cost of our broken background check system. Please stand up and help protect our communities from senseless gun crime.

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Everytown for Gun SafetyPetition StarterPatton has spent years making an impact as an organizer, campaign manager and consultant. Online and off, his clients have consistently won tough campaigns, raising millions of dollars, driving millions of actions, moving millions of voters, and picking up a couple of Pollie Awards along the way. As a campaigner, he's run legislative races in the middle of nowhere and coordinated government relations efforts for large national advocacy groups. As a consultant, Patton developed media and strategy for Democratic candidates and unions as Senior Strategist at Compass Media Group in Chicago, provided fundraising and advocacy strategy for major nonprofits as Senior Account Executive at Donordigital in Berkeley, and did a fair bit of solo work in those fields. As Senior Campaign Strategist at <a href="http://Change.org" rel="nofollow">Change.org</a>, he can't wait to tie it all together. Patton is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He lives in Oakland with his wife and a pretty awesome puppy.
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Petition created on October 31, 2011