Thread by @KrisB_Brown

Today marks 9 years since the Senate failed to pass life-saving gun violence prevention reform because of the filibuster.

Let’s be clear, #TheFilibusterIsKillingUs and we must eliminate it. [Thread 🧵]
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Following the Sandy Hook massacre where 20 children and 6 adults were senselessly killed, Americans continued to demand Congress strengthen America’s weak gun laws.

We all rallied together to urge our leaders to take action.
@NewtownAction @sandyhook

In response, leaders from across the aisle decided to #TakeActionNotSides and took up a series of gun reform bills.

The reforms included a bipartisan bill to expand Brady Background Checks, also known as– “Manchin-Toomey”.
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We at @bradybuzz understand the importance of expanded background checks.

1 in 5 guns in America are sold without a background check, which has lethal consequences.

A majority of Americans supported expanded background checks in 2013.

Yet, despite having the support of 55 senators — a minority of anti-gun safety senators blocked the passage of the bipartisan Manchin-Toomey bill.

How? The filibuster.

The filibuster continues to fuel America’s gun violence epidemic by blocking life-saving measures from earning a vote on the Senate floor.

@bradybuzz leaders + gun violence survivors @TChristianHeyne + @run_lizzie explain how the #TheFilibusterIsKillingUs

We continue to work tirelessly to urge our leaders to eliminate the filibuster.

Again, over 90% (!!) of Americans support strengthening our gun laws.

Every time common-sense gun violence prevention legislation fails to overcome the filibuster, lives are needlessly lost.

Join us as we take action now, to honor the lives lost in the Sandy Hook tragedy, and the countless lives taken by gun violence since a minority of senators blocked life-saving legislation

It’s plain and simple: #Thefilibusteriskillingus.
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