Editor's note: Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and the author of "Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World." The opinions in this commentary are her own. Read more opinion at CNN.com
(CNN)These days, it's impossible to celebrate -- or even gather -- in American communities without fear, including in places of worship, inside our cars, at grocery stores, the mall, or even in our schools. There was no clearer example of that than the shooting one week ago that pierced the sense of collective joy during Fourth of July holiday festivities in the town of Highland Park, Illinois.
Thanks to the gun lobby's "guns everywhere" agenda, none of us are safe anywhere.
Last week, as many Americans gathered to celebrate Independence Day, we witnessed the deadly reality that, despite the gun lobby's false claims, more guns in more places does not make us more safe or more free.
And the gun lobby was not just at the root of the violence in Highland Park that left seven people dead following a shooting by a young gunman armed with a high-powered weapon.
It's been behind the wave of mass shootings -- Uvalde, Buffalo and countless others -- that have added to the relentless epidemic of bloodshed, an epidemic compounded by a series of reckless decisions from federal and state courts.
All the more reason why it was important Monday for those of us fighting against gun violence to take...
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