Commentary: Want to honor mothers? Ban assault weapons

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : I am a mother of two teenage students in public schools here in Richmond.
48% : We are advocating for public safety measures to protect people from gun violence, including improving the safe storage of firearms in our communities and passing commonsense gun laws that the majority of Americans agree will help keep our communities safe.
47% : An assault weapons ban would work alongside additional measures that are critical to keeping communities safe from gun violence, including strengthening our background check system to keep all firearms out of dangerous hands in the first place; disarming domestic abusers; strengthening our secure storage laws to keep guns away from our kids; and enacting and implementing red-flag laws (also called extreme-risk laws) to keep guns out of the hands of people who are a threat to themselves or others.
46% : Last summer, after the horrific shooting that took 21 lives at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and after nearly three decades of inaction, Congress finally acted and passed the most significant legislation to strengthen our federal gun laws in a generation, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
35% : But this Mother's Day, we are asking our lawmakers to come together to save lives by reinstating the assault weapons ban.

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