TRUMP’S PROJECT 2025 FURTHER EXPOSES US TO GUN VIOLENCE
QUICK READ: Does your community want to keep loaded, hidden guns out of parks, stores, or childcare centers? If Trump’s Project 2025’s implemented, you can’t. Has your state passed universal background checks, red flag laws, and safe storage requirements? If Trump’s Project 2025 is implemented, they’ll disappear. The only way to prevent these outcomes is to keep Trump out of the White House.
CONTENTS:
BACKGROUND
We all deserve to live and raise our children in communities free of gun violence—a right slipping away since the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004 and SCOTUS invented an individual right to keep unsecured guns in 2008.
Last week, a 14-year-old boy committed 2024’s 385th mass shooting, the 417th school shooting since Columbine in 1999. In these 25 years 383,000+ students experienced traumatizing gun violence in their schools, and many hundreds were killed or injured there. Of the 180 committed by known juveniles, 86% obtained their guns from friends, relatives, or parents.
Trump’s systematic gutting of existing laws and appointment of 200+ federal judges opposed to firearms limits—a policy he’ll continue if elected—caused greater casualties.
By 2020 guns were the leading cause of preventable death for American children, and many thousands of Americans died from the 2370+ mass shootings over the last 4 years.
Trump’s Project 2025 will increase the violence:
Arming teachers and hiring armed guards makes schools less safe;
Moving ATF from DOJ to Treasury and cutting its funding makes it harder to track illegal weapons;
Enacting concealed carry reciprocity legislation forces states with strong gun laws to allow those with violent criminal histories and no gun safety training from lax states to carry concealed guns in public, endangering everyone’s safety, especially women.
Along with introducing voters to these draconian possibilities, our MoCs must work to make our communities safer.
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].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. In addition to alerting voters about Project 2025’s draconian gun policies, it is your job to give us these protections.
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].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. In addition to alerting voters about Project 2025’s draconian gun policies, it is your job to give us these protections.
Script for Republican Senators
D.C switchboard: 202-224-3121
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], [state], [zip code].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. It is your job to give us these protections.
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].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. In addition to alerting voters about Project 2025’s draconian gun policies, it is your job to give us these protections.
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].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. It is your job to give us these protections.
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].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. In addition to alerting voters about Project 2025’s draconian gun policies, it is your job to give us these protections.
Script for Val Hoyle (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].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. In addition to alerting voters about Project 2025’s draconian gun policies, it is your job to give us these protections.
SCRIPT FOR LORI CHAVEZ-DEREMER (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].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. It is your job to give us these protections.
Script for Andrea Salinas (OR-06)
Salem office: 503-385-0906 | DC office: 202-225-5643
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Instead of serving the gun lobby’s profit-driven agenda at the expense of American lives, we need to prioritize safety. America’s entirely preventable epidemic of gun violence only happens here because our government puts gun extremists’ rights over our right to live in safe communities. By wide margins, we want background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red flag laws, an end to the gun industry’s immunity, and no Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. In addition to alerting voters about Project 2025’s draconian gun policies, it is your job to give us these protections.
ACTION THREE: Good Trouble.
Below are opportunities to fight for our democracy. As John Lewis said, go make some “good trouble.”
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FURTHER READING
More than 383,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine
Debunking Myths the Gun Lobby Perpetuates Following Mass Shootings
Debunking the NRA’s 9 Favorite Gun Myths
How Project 2025 and Trump could make America’s gun crisis even worse
Project 2025 Would Increase Gun Violence, Reversing Historic Declines
Another Reason Project 2025 Is So Bad for Women? Guns
Project 2025 Would Increase Gun Violence: Who gave gun makers a GET OUT OF JAIL FREE card
What Harris and Trump Might Do About Guns If Elected
Voters Rank Gun Violence in Top Three Issues Ahead of 2024 Election
America’s Mass Shooting Crisis Emboldens A Racism Crisis Too
Gun Violence Prevention Groups on 20 Years Since the Expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban
