Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Mayors Against Illegal Guns comes to TUCSON
On the National Drive to Fix Gun Checks
www.FixGunChecks.org
Monday, March 28th
1:00pm
Jacome Plaza (outside the main library)
101 N. Stone Ave
Downtown Tucson
(Parking lot underneath the plaza, enter on Alameda)
Featuring:
Dr. Peter Rhee, Chief of Trauma, UMC
Sen. Dennis DeConcini
Former Tucson Mayor Tom Volgy
Pastor David Wilkinson, St Francis in the Foothills UMC
Rev. Jan Flaaten, Arizona Ecumenical Council
Former Attorney General Terry Goddard
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada
Tucson City Councilwoman Karin Uhlich
Patricia Maisch, citizen hero
& others who have been personally affected by gun violence, including other January 8th survivors.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan coalition of 550+ mayors from across the country, is proposing is to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people by taking two critical steps:
1. Get all the names of people who should be prohibited from buying guns into the background check system; and
2. Require a background check for every gun sale in America.
For more info about Monday's event, contact David Higuera at (520) 907-2080 or davideh@simginc.com
To sign the National Petition to Fix Gun Checks, go to www.fixgunchecks.org
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Mayors Against Illegal Guns is crossing the country with our National Drive to Fix Gun Checks, building support for critical gun reforms and raising awareness of the 34 Americans who are murdered with guns every day.
Join us this Monday in Tucson to rally support for the Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011, which will help get the records of prohibited buyers into the national database and close the loopholes that let dangerous people buy guns.
You can make this event an enormous success. Please come out and support victims of the Tucson shooting who will be speaking out and calling on Congress to fix the broken background check system immediately.
Monday, March 28, 1:00 PM
Jacome Plaza, in front of the Joel D. Valdez Main Library
101 North Stone Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85701
The National Drive to Fix Gun Checks kicked off in the wake of the Tucson shooting with one simple message: We need to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
Since then, more than a quarter million Americans have signed our petition to Fix Gun Checks, and President Obama has made fixing background checks a national priority, calling for reforms that would make the system instant, accurate and comprehensive.
The Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011 has been introduced in the Senate and will soon be introduced in the House of Representatives.
Right now, we need to keep up the pressure to ensure that Congress hears our message and passes this critical legislation that will stop these senseless shootings.
Thank you,
–Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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