Gun violence is a public health epidemic that claims far too many lives each year.
Tom stands with students, parents, educators, law enforcement, victims of gun violence, and community members, and is ready to implement the urgent common-sense gun safety reforms we desperately need.
His plan--titled "We Can End Gun Violence"--will establish universal background checks, ban large-capacity magazines and assault weapons, enact red flag laws, close loopholes, create a new
Office of Gun Safety and licensing requirements, and provide resources to communities to reduce gun violence.
I will declare gun violence a public health epidemic
I will declare gun violence a public health epidemic and dedicate time and resources to develop a cure. America's children are suffering from the threat of mass killings and fear of active shooters. Communities suffer from gun violence in many forms:
homicides, domestic violence, suicides, and police brutality. The American people agree on how we should solve this problem. They want Washington to act, have pleaded with their representatives and have begged them to do something -
Source: USA Today on 2019 Democratic primary
, Nov 7, 2019
