Gun Safety & Protecting Our Communities
Gun violence is an unmitigated public safety crisis that tears at the fabric of our communities every single day. Children should feel completely safe walking into their classrooms, and families deserve to live without the constant fear of their neighborhood becoming the next mass casualty headline. Yet for far too long, the national conversation around firearms has been paralyzed by rigid partisan gridlock, treating constitutional rights and basic public safety as mutually exclusive. This gridlock has allowed deadly gaps in our laws to persist—fueling the deadly trafficking of illegal weapons, letting domestic abusers maintain access to firearms, and allowing untraceable ghost guns to flood our streets. Responsible, law-abiding gun owners agree that common-sense guardrails are necessary. Protecting the Second Amendment means absolutely nothing if we fail to protect the lives of our citizens.
I am running for Congress to fight for real-world legislation and massive community investments that address the root causes of this violence. I will aggressively push for universal background checks, strict federal safe-storage laws to prevent accidental youth shootings, and an absolute crackdown on the manufacturing and distribution of unregulated ghost gun kits. But passing laws is only half the battle; we cannot simply arrest our way out of systemic instability. I will champion direct federal funding for community-based violence intervention programs, conflict mediation teams, and robust youth mentorship initiatives led by individuals with lived experience. We must modernize our schools by flooding them with counselors, psychologists, and preventative resources rather than forcing our educators to become armed security guards. Public safety is deeply personal, and it is time for a federal policy that values human lives over corporate gun industry profits.
