It’s Not A Doorway Problem. It’s a 400 Million Gun Problem.
Don’t Normalize Bloodshed While 50 Senators Hold Us Hostage: Call. Them. Out.
QUICK READ: Why have we allowed the GOP to hijack our nation? Most Americans favor universal background checks. There are literally dozens of measures we could take tomorrow to decrease gun violence significantly. It’s not rocket science. 50 Senators will not budge—will not even vote—on reform. Call them out. Their hands are bloody.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
BACKGROUND
Ted Cruz thinks unlocked doors are killing us and wishes we’d spent $300 million to “harden schools” by stationing armed police before every classroom like maximum security prisons for tots. Never mind fire codes or the many armed security killed at our unending American massacres. This has never been about logic or safety.
It’s about guns, the gun lobby, and their champions, the GOP.
Why have we allowed the GOP to hijack our nation?
Most Americans favor universal background checks. There are dozens of measures we could take tomorrow to decrease gun violence significantly. It’s not rocket science. 50 Senators will not budge—will not even vote—on any substantive reform.
Any day now, the Supreme Court will likely take this a step further and prevent individual states from imposing gun control measures, thereby expanding upon a decades-long willful misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment.
MAGA Republicans have fully internalized the NRA message to sell more guns without restriction and broadcast loyalty to the gun lobby after every new act of carnage. By every measure, America’s carnage is unique. Each new act of violence drives gun sales. Sales of guns drive violence.
We should all be hollering like Beto O’Rourke and Senator Murphy. Call your Representatives and demand they holler too.
ACTION One: Call the Senate.
Script for Oregon Senators
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
My name is [--] and I'm a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
After every massacre, the GOP remains committed to the gun lobby, rejecting every common sense approach to reducing gun violence. They have blood on their hands and do not reflect what the majority of Americans want. We need real change now.
SEN. WYDEN:
Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
After every massacre, the GOP remains committed to the gun lobby, rejecting every common sense approach to reducing gun violence. They have blood on their hands and do not reflect what the majority of Americans want. We need real change now.
Script for Republican Senators
D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].
After every massacre, the GOP remains committed to the gun lobby, rejecting every common sense approach to reducing gun violence. You have blood on your hands and do not reflect what the majority of Americans want. We need real change now.
ACTION TWO: Call the House.
Script for Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01)
Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | DC office: 202-225-0855
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
After every massacre, the GOP remains committed to the gun lobby, rejecting every common sense approach to reducing gun violence. They have blood on their hands and do not reflect what the majority of Americans want. We need real change now.
Script for Cliff Bentz (OR-02)
Medford office: 541-776-4646 | DC office: 202-225-6730
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
After every massacre, the GOP remains committed to the gun lobby, rejecting every common sense approach to reducing gun violence. You have blood on your hands and do not reflect what the majority of Americans want. We need real change now.
Script for Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Oregon office: 503-231-2300 | DC office: 202-225-4811
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
After every massacre, the GOP remains committed to the gun lobby, rejecting every common sense approach to reducing gun violence. They have blood on their hands and do not reflect what the majority of Americans want. We need real change now.
Script for Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | DC office: 202-225-6416
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
After every massacre, the GOP remains committed to the gun lobby, rejecting every common sense approach to reducing gun violence. They have blood on their hands and do not reflect what the majority of Americans want. We need real change now.
Script for Kurt Schrader (OR-05)
Salem office: 503-588-9100 | DC office: 202-225-5711
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
After every massacre, the GOP remains committed to the gun lobby, rejecting every common sense approach to reducing gun violence. They have blood on their hands and do not reflect what the majority of Americans want. We need real change now.
ACTION 3: GOOD TROUBLE
GOOD TROUBLE: Below are opportunities to fight for our democracy. As John Lewis said, go make some “good trouble.”
TUESDAY 11:30am-12:30pm LETTER WRITING PARTY - INDIVISIBLE OREGON:
https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/442887/Fridays at 4 - Letter and Postcard Writing — Indivisible Oregon.
Learn about persuasive language and communication research at the Zoom ASO Movement Briefings every second Wednesday.
Join the campaign to hold the House and Senate at GiveNoGround.org
Work to protect democracy in the House by replacing retiring US Representative Peter DeFazio with another Democrat, replacing Democrat Kurt Schrader, the “Manchin of the House,” with a progressive, and electing a Democrat in Oregon’s new Congressional District 6.
Demand that your primary news source stop creating false equivalencies and just report the truth.
Check out the Poor People's Campaign Readies 'Massive, Nonviolent' Effort to Save Democracy
Outside of Portland? Check out COIN Oregon.
Rally inconsisent Democratic voters to vote in 2022 with Progressive Turnout Project | Feb, 2022 | Medium
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