Pennsylvania House Rep. Dan Frankel, who represents the Squirrel Hill community where Tree of Life is located, is planning to introduce an Empowering Local Governments to Protect Their Residents bill. The more co-sponsors a bill has, the more likely it is to gain enough legislative support to become law. That’s why it’s so crucial that your representative hears from constituents like you.
Right now, the gun lobby is pushing a bill that would make preemption even worse by forcing taxpayers to pay for NRA-backed lawsuits against local laws that address the flood of ghost guns, machine gun conversion devices, and gun stores in residential communities when all local officials are trying to do is save lives. We have to fight back.
Across the commonwealth, law enforcement officers, health care professionals, faith leaders, and Pennsylvania families are sick and tired of the gun violence epidemic. We have momentum and we’re WINNING at the local level.
It’s time for the State Assembly to stop standing in the way of lifesaving progress.
In community,
Adam Garber
Executive Director
CeaseFirePA
P.S. Getting rid of this preemption law from a time before mass shootings were a daily occurrence is one of the most important things we can do to save lives in PA. Please add your voice and tell your representative to co-sponsor Rep. Frankel’s bill.
