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Every 16 hours a woman is shot
by her husband or boyfriend

One American is killed with a gun
every 15 minutes

Over 80 Americans are shot and killed 
every day

7 children are “unintentionally” shot
every day

33,000 Americans are killed by guns
every year

Every day 55 Americans kill themselves 
with guns

There were 330 mass shootings
in America in 2015

This is a public health issue
This is a domestic security issue
This is an every-single-citizen-is-involved issue

You could be next
or your spouse or partner or child
or mother or father or sister or brother

74% of NRA members favor background checks

46% fewer women are shot to death by husbands
or boyfriends in states with background checks

48% fewer on-duty cops are shot in states with 
background checks

51% of NRA members favor 5-day waiting periods

Most states have a 24-hour waiting period to get a tattoo 
to buy a gun there is no waiting period required

States with waiting periods before gun purchases
have 51% fewer suicides

In Texas 
no permit is required to own a handgun
no registration is required for owning long arms or handguns
no license is required to own firearms
there are no assault weapons laws
texans can carry concealed weapons if they have a permit
with no training or educational classes required

Most states are the same – trapped in oblivion

It takes 1,000 hours of training to be a yoga instructor
to buy a gun in most states no training is required

In most states there is a limit to the amount of Sudafed
you can purchase but no limit on guns and ammunition

The shooter in Aurora, Colorado was able to purchase
6,000 rounds of ammunition online without any question

The Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2015
which required face to face purchases of ammunition, 
licensing of ammunition dealers, and reporting regarding 
bulk purchases of ammunition would have prevented this 
purchase of 6,000 rounds but it was killed by Republicans, 
the NRA, and its merry band of cynical lobbyist-whores

This is suicide on a national scale
Americans are killing themselves 
with more and more frequency

Where is the unrelenting national outrage?
where are the pounding national protests?

Where are the demands for investigations into the profits
of the NRA and the gun and ammunition manufacturers

This is all BLOOD MONEY profits made on the corpses 
of delusional and catastrophically misinformed Americans

What is more sacred the Second Amendment or human life
what does the meaning of freedom mean when you are dead


The statistics noted here were taken from the Brave New Films documentary, “MAKING A KILLING: Guns, Greed, and the NRA.” 

To find out more, please visit www.bravenewfilms.org
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