Ask Your Friends to Stand With You For Peace

You may use this form to ask your friends to join us in taking a stand for peace and nonviolence by signing our petition.   Your own message, in your own words, is generally best, but we posted a sample message you might use below. 

According to a 2007 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), homicide in the U.S. is the second leading cause of death for young people ages 10 through 24, and of those deaths, 81 percent were killed with a firearm. In 2005, this same group accounted for almost 50 percent of homicide-related arrests and 62 percent of arrests related to robbery. Additionally, according to a 2004 World Health Organization report, the cost of interpersonal violence in the U.S reaches upwards of $300 billion annually. The same report estimates the cost to victims at more than $500 billion per year. These costs exclude expenses associated with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

We want to reignite awareness of the youth violence epidemic in the U.S. and educate the public and community leaders that there are proven solutions out there, but they're meaningless if we don't use them. Our young people deserve better. They deserve to live in a country where reducing and preventing youth violence is a national priority. They deserve to be safe and to grow up without fear.

Please stand with me in calling upon Congress to make violence reduction and prevention a national priority in the next Congress.  

Sign this Petition, which we will deliver to House and Senate leaders on September 11, 2008. 

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/696/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=946

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