We want to share some good news.
Last week, a mass shooting at Florida Gulf Coast University was stopped before it ever happened and it didn’t start with a government agency or a federal task force.
It started with a screenshot.
On or around June 10th, investigators received screenshots from someone who had seen something alarming: a student named Robert Baer allegedly discussing plans to acquire a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle after his birthday. He didn’t choose that weapon by accident. Investigators say he wanted it specifically because it had been used by perpetrators of previous mass shootings, including Sandy Hook.
Someone saw that and acted. And because they did, students at FGCU got to finish their semester.
This is what prevention looks like.
This is exactly the culture March For Our Lives exists to build: communities that are informed enough to spot the signs, empowered enough to act on them, and supported enough to know that when they speak up, someone will listen.
That culture doesn’t build itself. It takes sustained organizing, education, and advocacy that’s year-round, in every community, especially the ones Congress has written off.
Representative Suhas Subramanyam just introduced a groundbreaking package of bills to keep our communities and our kids safe from gun violence. And guess who is right there co-sponsoring it? Our very own Maxwell Frost.
Before Maxwell was making waves in the halls of Congress, he was here on the ground with the MFOL team, organizing alongside us. He knows firsthand that culture shifts take grassroots power, and policy must follow.
If you agree, join us by signing our petition in support of the Protect Every Pre-Schooler Act.
We will keep showing up. We will keep building the world where the next Robert Baer gets stopped before he ever gets started.
With hope and resolve,
March For Our Lives
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