BOZEMAN, Mont., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bozeman Mayor Sean Becker, law enforcement and concerned Montanans will join together in a day of remembrance and a call to action in Bozeman Fridayto commemorate the six-month anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT that took the lives of 26 victims.Attendees will ask Senator Baucus to take a second look at the bipartisan, life-saving background check legislation introduced by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey.
The event coincides with Mayors Against Illegal Guns' official launch of its "No More Names:National Drive to Reduce Gun Violence" tour from Newtown. The tour will go to 25 states over a period of 100 days. At each stop on the tour, gun violence survivors, their families and concerned community members will rally in support of gun violence prevention efforts and to urge their representatives in Washington to support background checks that will reduce gun violence.
Every day, 33 Americans are murdered with guns in the United States. This past April, a minority of U.S. senators voted to block bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey that would have helped keep guns out of the hands of criminals by requiring background checks for commercial gun sales. Recent independent polls have found that 79 percent of Montanans support background checks for all gun sales.
Event details are below:
Bozeman
What:We Stand With Newtown Rally; Calling on Senator Max Baucus to Take aSecond Look at the Manchin-Toomey Compromise Bill
Who: Sean Becker, Mayor of Bozeman, and Scott Swanson, Retired Deputy Chief ofPolice for Santa Rosa, CA, Organizing For Action, Montana Chapter of National Organization of Women, and Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Where: Gallatin Labor Temple, 422 E Mendenhall Street, Bozeman, MT, 59715 (acrossfrom Hawthorne Elementary School and City Hall).
When:Friday, June 14, 2:00 PM
About Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Since its creation in April 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown from 15 members to more than 950 mayors from across the country. We have more than 1.5 million grassroots supporters, making us the largest gun violence prevention advocacy organization in the country. The bipartisan coalition, co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, has united the nation's mayors around these common goals: protecting communities by holding gun offenders accountable; demanding access to crime gun trace data that is critical to law enforcement efforts to combat gun trafficking; and working with legislators to fix weaknesses and loopholes in the law that make it far too easy for criminals and other dangerous people to get guns. Learn more atwww.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org
MEDIA CONTACT
Jack Warner: jwarner@maig.org or 914-575-1090
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