ABOUT WE THE PEOPLE FOR SENSIBLE GUN LAWS:

We are a group of citizens from DC, MD, and VA who have been demonstrating for sensible gun laws since the Aurora Colorado Theater shooting in July 2012.  On July 27th, 2017 it was exactly five years of Mondays that we have been in front of the White House from 11am-1pm with our signs, banners, and other materials talking to people  from all over the country and from all over the world. We speak with people one on one about the importance of having common sense gun regulations. We are not an "organization," we are an ordinary group of concerned citizens seeking to make change in our culture of violence.

Specifically we are calling on the President and Congress to:

*Recognize This Is A Public Health Emergency

*Require Universal Background Checks

*Oppose Concealed Carry Reciprocity of Guns Among States

*Oppose Deregulation on Sales of Gun Silencers

*Ban Sale of Bump Stocks

*Ban High Capacity Magazines and Military Style Assault Weapons

*Recognize Domestic Violence Directly Relates to Weak Gun Laws

*Oppose Repealing Gun Free School Zones

*Close The Terrorist Gun Loophole "no fly, no buy" 

*Require Gun Safety Training

*Mandate Gun Insurance for Gun Owners

*Provide Research Funds Into Causes and Solutions to Gun Violence

We have spoken to NRA members and have found places in our dialogue for common ground. With others, we have needed to respectfully agree to disagree. Most of the people who stop and chat with us agree with many of our ideas and support us. We encourage all US citizens we meet to email/write, visit or call their Senators or Congressional representatives, the President, Governors, and participate in national and grassroots activities. We remain hopeful and optimistic. It is what brings us back week after week. In many instances we have measurably changed people’s minds on this issue.

Various professional organizations have joined in our demonstrations --The Brady Campaign, Protest Easy Guns, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Newtown Action Alliance as well as victims and relatives of victims. Our numbers vary weekly.  Along the way, we have attended Judiciary Committee Hearings, worked to organize The January 2013 March on Washington for Gun Control, participated in Congressional Action Days organized by Moms Demand Gun Sense/Everytown for Gun Sense and most recently assisted with the "lie-in" of teens in front of the White House after the Parkland high school mass shooting. We have received both domestic and international press coverage calling attention to this issue.