‘This Video Will Change You’: Urgent Plea For Gun Sanity Has People In Tears

A strong new video is urging Individuals to demand motion on gun management amid a wave of mass shootings in American faculties.

Eleven Movies, the Oregon-based manufacturing firm that made the video, listed the title on YouTube as “WARNING: This video will change you.” It reveals the aftermath of faculty shootings going again greater than twenty years together with gut-wrenching feedback from anguished mother and father in addition to presidents, athletes, entertainers and media figures.

“This isn't a film,” the textual content on the display screen notes. “That is actual life.”

Different textual content within the video additionally notes that weapons are the main explanation for demise amongst American youngsters, surpassing auto accidents, medicine and most cancers.

“No extra ideas and prayers,” the textual content says towards the top. “Solely motion will save our youngsters. Solely actual gun reform will restore America’s future.”

The video, set to the instrumental monitor “Awaken Daybreak,” was seen on Twitter almost 750,000 occasions in its first 12 hours:

Customers on social media stated they had been in tears over the video and took up the decision for motion:

Now we have to make it tougher to be a gun proprietor and simpler to be a toddler in America. #AwakenDawnpic.twitter.com/hjNzTffsBK

— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) June 1, 2022

#AwakenDawn
I am crying, I am so carried out with youngsters dying, I'm so carried out with the NRA having such clout with our Congress. It has to finish. https://t.co/G8HPjv1G0g

— Lisa wright (@Lisawri18498397) June 1, 2022

Please watch this...regardless of how troublesome it's. Then share. And take your anger & grief to the voting sales space.

I am a lifetime gun consumer & personal a number of firearms. I dwell in an ammunition/firearm manufacturing neighborhood. These shootings must cease - it is time for actual adjustments. https://t.co/6PW2TINIKl

— Mia Carlson (@MiaCarlsonWA) June 2, 2022

Please watch this.
Cry.
After which get mad as hell.
No extra moments of silence. #RelentlessNoisepic.twitter.com/tghb2jIoQH

— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) June 1, 2022

This made my eyes significantly moist. Sufficient is sufficient.

pic.twitter.com/3KFldnSHPo

— devon sawa (@DevonESawa) June 1, 2022

.@Eleven_Films has created among the greatest digital content material I've seen over time, however #AwakenDawn is the MOST heartbreaking. You NEED to observe this!💔💔 https://t.co/4s40KjqqTE

— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) June 1, 2022

Actually 8 hours after @Eleven_Films launched this video in regards to the obscene quantity of gun violence in America, there's been one other mass taking pictures.

This time, at a Tulsa hospital.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT? #AwakenDawnpic.twitter.com/PHyPJBqYZj

— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@NickKnudsenUS) June 1, 2022

Each single individual must see this.

It’s been 8,444 days since Columbine.
It’s been 3,457 since Sandy Hook.
It’s been 1,569 since Parkland.
It’s been 9 days since Uvalde.

“All I did was ship them to high school.”
My good friend @fred_guttenberg

It’s been lengthy sufficient. #AwakenDawnhttps://t.co/eMCUu2zabG

— Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut (@jschildkraut80) June 2, 2022

I want I had the facility to make this development day by day on each social media outlet. Thanks @Eleven_Films for making it. I hope I begin to see it on prime time TV throughout common television reveals and through NFL video games. I'd donate to assist make this occur. https://t.co/Sat0hs1mYn

— Vic Meyers (@Vic_Meyers) June 2, 2022

“All I did was ship them to high school.”
Ideas and prayers usually are not sufficient.
Not even near sufficient.
When are we going to DO one thing?
It’s time for motion.
Not simply extra empty phrases.#AwakenDawnpic.twitter.com/3eRAv9xc9d

— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) June 1, 2022

THIS! in 2022, extra children have been shot and killed within the US than police within the line of responsibility. https://t.co/2xdCdbFcCI

— Chip Franklin.com (@chipfranklin) June 1, 2022

If you happen to love your gun greater than you care about maintaining youngsters alive, you're simply plain evil.

Do not look away.#AwakenDawn#GunReformNOWhttps://t.co/1zmll5tSKV

— Tara Dublin 🇺🇦🌻 (@taradublinrocks) June 1, 2022