Representative Budd, Senator Tillis and Senator Burr,

I will be marching for our lives, along with thousands of other Americans, on March 24. Americans deserve better. Mass gun violence is rampant in this country, and it affects real lives. People lose family members in the most tragic way, and people have to deal with the affects of that loss and trauma for life.

Those who seek to do harm are encouraged by the lack of government action that happens after every single mass gun violence event. It needs to end.

Congress needs to take a stand, take their hands out of the NRA’s pockets, and empathize with the humans affected by these events.

— Aisha Cannon

Mooresville