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Never mind road accidents, drugs, and cancer.
Guns are now the leading cause of death among American children.
That is just one of the hard-hitting facts that a new viral video about gun insanity in America delivers with a gut-wrenching punch.
Amid the ongoing scourge of school shootings in America, including the most recent attack where Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the powerful video is begging Americans to demand action on gun control, per HuffPost:
Eleven Films, the Oregon-based production company that made the video, listed the title on YouTube as “WARNING: This video will change you.”
It shows the aftermath of school shootings going back more than two decades along with gut-wrenching comments from anguished parents as well as presidents, athletes, entertainers and media figures.
The video ends off with a chilling call to action: “No more thoughts and prayers. Only action will save our kids. Only real gun reform will restore America’s future.”
On Twitter, the video has been viewed more than 820 000 times already, moving many to tears:
#AwakenDawn
I’m crying, I’m so done with children dying, I am so done with the NRA having such clout with our Congress. It has to end. https://t.co/G8HPjv1G0g— Lisa wright (@Lisawri18498397) June 1, 2022
Please watch this…no matter how difficult it is. Then share. And take your anger & grief to the voting booth.
I’m a lifetime gun user & own several firearms. I live in an ammunition/firearm manufacturing community. These shootings need to stop – it’s time for real changes. https://t.co/6PW2TINIKl
— Mia Carlson (@MiaCarlsonWA) June 2, 2022
We have to make it harder to be a gun owner and easier to be a child in America. #AwakenDawnpic.twitter.com/hjNzTffsBK
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) June 1, 2022
Literally 8 hours after @Eleven_Films released this video about the obscene amount of gun violence in America, there’s been another mass shooting.
This time, at a Tulsa hospital.
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT? #AwakenDawnpic.twitter.com/PHyPJBqYZj
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@NickKnudsenUS) June 1, 2022
If you love your gun more than you care about keeping children alive, you are just plain evil.
Don’t look away.#AwakenDawn #GunReformNOW https://t.co/1zmll5tSKV
— Tara Dublin 🇺🇦🌻 (@taradublinrocks) June 1, 2022
Hopefully, this video and other campaigns in the works can bring about meaningful and long-overdue change.
[source:huffpost]
