Pass a Law in Minnesota to Help Find a Solution to Gun Violence
Pass a Law in Minnesota to Help Find a Solution to Gun Violence
The Issue
Our friend David Haeg was the youngest victim of the Annunciation shooting in Minnesota, where he suffered from two bullets grazing his head. He was shot directly in the spleen, where shrapnel was stuck for weeks. David is only six years old. He is now scared to step inside of a church because he believes that he will be shot at once again, resulting in panic attacks. A child should not have to undergo that kind of life changing trauma. To hear more about his story, click the link below.
It is incredibly sickening that kids around Minnesota have to hold that fear in the back of their minds that every day they go to school could be their last day. School is meant to be a safe space where children can learn and grow. Currently, that right is being violated and it needs to end NOW.
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act was passed on Sept. 13, 1994, and was signed by Bill Clinton. The purpose of this law was to ban the selling, making, and ownership of certain firearms that were deemed “assault weapons”. This law also made it so weapons were only allowed to carry a ten-round magazine. The ban expired after ten years and was meant to be renewed, but it was not. Currently speaking, 14 states have created laws like this one on their own, but Minnesota is not one of them. We are looking for our state to listen to our cry for help and take inspiration from this law.
Anyone who would like to see a change is welcome to sign our petition, but we are mainly focused on youth that are currently in schools and are scared of being there each day. Your voices are the loudest. Get your children to sign it, your friends, your parents, your grandparents, your siblings, and whoever will listen to you.
If you would like to get in touch, please contact our principal Nate Gibbs or our history teacher at nathaniel.gibbs@isd623.org jerod.nowicki@apps.isd623.org
Thank you,
Eden Frazier and Chloe Shields, 8th grade students at Parkview Center School Roseville, Minnesota
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The Issue
Our friend David Haeg was the youngest victim of the Annunciation shooting in Minnesota, where he suffered from two bullets grazing his head. He was shot directly in the spleen, where shrapnel was stuck for weeks. David is only six years old. He is now scared to step inside of a church because he believes that he will be shot at once again, resulting in panic attacks. A child should not have to undergo that kind of life changing trauma. To hear more about his story, click the link below.
It is incredibly sickening that kids around Minnesota have to hold that fear in the back of their minds that every day they go to school could be their last day. School is meant to be a safe space where children can learn and grow. Currently, that right is being violated and it needs to end NOW.
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act was passed on Sept. 13, 1994, and was signed by Bill Clinton. The purpose of this law was to ban the selling, making, and ownership of certain firearms that were deemed “assault weapons”. This law also made it so weapons were only allowed to carry a ten-round magazine. The ban expired after ten years and was meant to be renewed, but it was not. Currently speaking, 14 states have created laws like this one on their own, but Minnesota is not one of them. We are looking for our state to listen to our cry for help and take inspiration from this law.
Anyone who would like to see a change is welcome to sign our petition, but we are mainly focused on youth that are currently in schools and are scared of being there each day. Your voices are the loudest. Get your children to sign it, your friends, your parents, your grandparents, your siblings, and whoever will listen to you.
If you would like to get in touch, please contact our principal Nate Gibbs or our history teacher at nathaniel.gibbs@isd623.org jerod.nowicki@apps.isd623.org
Thank you,
Eden Frazier and Chloe Shields, 8th grade students at Parkview Center School Roseville, Minnesota
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Petition created on November 10, 2025