Oscar’s reigning Best Actress victor, Julianne Moore, has recruited a massive roster of celebrities who support gun safety legislation.
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Julianne joined Everytown for Gun Safety which is one of the largest fun violence prevention organizations. The new council is now made up of 79 members from the creative community, including Steve Carrell, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Lawrence, Aziz Ansari, Kim Kardashian, Judd Apatow and Ellen DeGeneres.
Moore said she first got the idea for the group in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that claimed the lives of 20 students and six adults. Moore knowledgeable People journal she tried in ineffective to take care of the knowledge away from her then 12-yr-previous daughter.
Moore said she and her colleagues are saddened by the increase in daily gun violence the country has seen in recent years.
“I was like, ‘I’ve had it, ‘” she said.
“I was like, ‘I’ve had it.’ I said to my husband, ‘I’ve got to do something.’ This is the one thing that I need to say something about. This is my responsibility as a parent”.
Since more than 90 per cent of people in America are in support of background checks, she adds that she and her fellow members do not feel that they are in the minority.
‘And it was a totally unregulated industry at first.
According to Everytown President John Feinblatt, gun murders in the United States is 20-times that of other developed nations, despite similar levels of mental illness and exposure to violence in the media. “I feel like something that is very sensible and straight forward can be done also with guns”.
She hopes that the Council’s message will resonate even with those who feel that gun control threatens their Second Amendment rights.
She told PEOPLE magazine, “I remember my daughter [Liv, 12] came to work with me that day”.
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“We consider the artistic group has a chance to make use of our communications expertise and the facility of tradition to galvanise many extra Americans within the gun violence prevention motion”, stated a press release by the group, the Everytown Creative Council.
