Newtown Action Alliance

On Tuesday, 93 Senators voted to pass Senator Richard Blumenthal's Kids Online Safety Act (S. 1409) to hold the social media corporations accountable for not keeping children safe. Since guns are the #1 killer of our children and teens, Congress must also pass Senate Blumethal and Representative Adam Schiff's Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act (S. 2048 and H.R. 4184), to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) to end the gun industry's special civil liability shield. The 7th Amendment protects the right for citizens to have a jury trial in federal courts with civil cases where the claim exceeds a certain dollar value and PLCAA violates our constitutional right. The Kids Online Safety Act (S. 1409) would allow the attorney general of a State to bring a civil action on behalf of the residents of the State in a district court of the United States or a State court of appropriate jurisdiction. We support the Kids Online Safety Act AND we also strongly support policies to protect our children from gun violence. If Congress can remove social media's immunity from civil actions then Congress must act to eliminate the gun industry's civil liability shield by repealing PLCAA. Last week, I traveled to D.C. with PLCAA survivors Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, a student and teacher who survivord the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a mom whose son survived Parkland, and six other students from Newtown/Sandy Hook to urge the Congressional holdouts to cosponsor and vote on the bill to repeal PLCAA. We met with over 30 House and Senate offices and I am pleased to report that we have secured 12 additional cosponsors for HR4184. Our goal is to secure at least 150 cosponsors so that the House Democrats could file a discharge petition to ensure that this bill will be a priority WHEN we take back the House in November. Newtown Action Alliance

LISTEN to our chairwoman Po Murray ‘s conversation with Scott Harris from @BTLRadioNews on the deadly consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks that effectively transforms a semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun, which were banned for sale in the U.S. in 1934. She also reflect on the frustratingly slow progress on legislating gun safety regulations, and the sad graduation of Newtown High School seniors remembering their 20 classmates, and six staff members who were killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. https://lnkd.in/epTUQisi

We established the Jr Newtown Action Alliance a few months after the tragedy in our community for the Sandy Hook survivors & other students to #HonorWithAction. We are so proud of Ella, Emma, Grace, Henry, Lilly, & Matt for sharing their stories prior to graduation. It was a bittersweet day for them to graduate without 20 of their classmates who were killed by a gunman with an AR15. They said they don’t want thoughts & prayers. They want action. https://lnkd.in/escQcMH4

Newtown Action Alliance was in DC for the Global Exchange’s week of action. We set up over 40 congressional meetings for the Global Exchange coalition to #StopUSgunsToMexico this week. We joined survivors from Mexico, Uvalde, & other advocates to push members of Congress to cosponsor & pass the ARMAS Act & Stop Arming the Cartels Act. 70% of crime guns recovered from Mexico are from the United States. Mexico has only one gun store managed by their army. Guns are the #1 killer of children in the U.S. and now Mexico.

We congratulate our chairwoman Po Murray & our board advisor Kristin Song for being honored at the Connecticut Violence Intervention & Prevention’s inaugural scholarship gala last night for their tireless efforts to keep Americans safe from gun violence. #HonorWithAction #EndGunViolence

It was an honor to work on behalf of Newtown Action Alliance with this incredible team/friends from AAPI Victory Alliance, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Hope and Heal Fund, MomsRising.org, Daya Houston, Rise AAPI to host the 3rd Annual AAPI Against Gun Violence Convening in Houston, Texas last week. I am looking forward to continuing to work with them to #EndGunViolence in the #AAPI communities across the nation.

Family whose son died in accidental shooting fights to change gun safety laws Call your Members of Congress (202) 224-3121 and urge them to cosponsor S.173, Ethan’s Law, to #KeepKidsSafe. https://lnkd.in/ewdcfSXT

On behalf of the Newtown Action Alliance & the gun violence survivors who traveled to D.C. with us, we thank the @TheJoyceFoundation for supporting the Annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence for many years. #HonorWithAction #endgunviolence

Call Senator Rubio and Senator Scott and urge them to #KeepKidsSafe by cosponsoring the child access prevention law, Ethan’s Law. 📞 Call Senator Marco Rubio at: (202) 224-3041 📞 Call Senator Rick Scott at: (202) 224-5274 https://lnkd.in/gZZrWhvc