Nearly 150 American Business Leaders Urge the Senate to Take Action on Gun Violence

Executives from companies including WPP, Uber and Bloomberg all signed the letter

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Executives from many of the United States’s largest corporations and companies have signed a letter to the U.S. Senate urging the governing body to take legislative action on gun control.

The letter, obtained by the New York Times, cites the recent mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, El Paso and West Texas, as well as instances of gun violence in cities such as Newport News, Va., Brooklyn and Chicago. The letter calls America’s gun violence epidemic “a public health crisis that demands urgent action” and specifically calls on the Senate (which has a Republican majority) to pass the bills that the House of Representatives (which has a Democratic majority) has already passed: stronger background checks and “red flag” laws.

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