Since [Tucson], we have lost perhaps another 2,000 members of our American family to gun violence...

Ask your friends and neighbore “to join a quarter million Americans in signing the Fix Gun Checks petition today“.

“Since [Tucson], we have lost perhaps another 2,000 members of our American family to gun violence…

I’m willing to bet that responsible, law-abiding gun owners agree that we should be able to keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few — dangerous criminals and fugitives, for example — from getting their hands on a gun in the first place.

I’m willing to bet they don’t think that using a gun and using common sense are incompatible ideas — that we should check someone’s criminal record before he can check out at a gun seller; that an unbalanced man shouldn’t be able to buy a gun so easily; that there’s room for us to have reasonable laws that uphold liberty, ensure citizen safety and are fully compatible with a robust Second Amendment.

Porous background checks are bad for police officers, for law-abiding citizens and for the sellers themselves. If we’re serious about keeping guns away from someone who’s made up his mind to kill, then we can’t allow a situation where a responsible seller denies him a weapon at one store, but he effortlessly buys the same gun someplace else.”

Read President Obama’s full op-ed and take action. http://www.fixgunchecks.org/obama

Let’s make sure Congress gets the message that it’s time to stop criminals, drug abusers, the mentally ill and other dangerous people from getting their hands on guns.

http://www.FixGunChecks.org/Obama

Thanks for getting involved,
Mayors Against Illegal Guns