Just Stop Killing Kids.
Civil resistance is proven to change laws and society. We are demanding action — and we will not stop until it happens.
Two demands. No compromise.
Universal Background Checks
Every gun sale — private, online, at gun shows — must require a background check. No loopholes. No exceptions. This is the single most effective policy to keep guns out of dangerous hands.
of Americans support universal background checks
Universal Gun Registry
Every firearm in America must be registered to its owner. Accountability deters crime, aids law enforcement, and creates the infrastructure for a safer society. Every car is registered. Every gun should be too.
of Americans support a national gun registry
Why we fight this way
Civil Resistance Works.
History is clear: organized, nonviolent civil resistance is the most powerful force for social and political change ever documented. From the Civil Rights Movement to the Suffragettes, from Gandhi to Mandela — movements that mobilize just 3.5% of a population have never failed to achieve their goals.
"No government has ever withstood a challenge from 3.5% of its population acting nonviolently."
— Erica Chenoweth, Harvard Kennedy School
The Research
The science is settled. Civil resistance is not idealism — it is the most effective strategy for political change ever studied.
Harvard Kennedy School / RAND Corporation
Erica Chenoweth & Maria Stephan
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (2011)
Nonviolent campaigns succeeded 53% of the time between 1900–2006, compared to 26% for violent campaigns. The success rate for nonviolent movements that achieved mass participation was dramatically higher.
Chenoweth, E. & Stephan, M.J. (2011). Why Civil Resistance Works. Columbia University Press.
Harvard Kennedy School
Erica Chenoweth
The 3.5% Rule (2019)
No campaign that achieved the active and sustained participation of at least 3.5% of the population has ever failed to bring about change. In the United States, that is approximately 11.5 million people.
Chenoweth, E. (2019). The 3.5% Rule: How a Small Minority Can Change the World. Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Rutgers University
Kurt Schock
Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies (2005)
Nonviolent movements are more likely to succeed because they attract broader participation across demographics, are harder for governments to justify suppressing, and create more durable political outcomes.
Schock, K. (2005). Unarmed Insurrections. University of Minnesota Press.
Albert Einstein Institution
Gene Sharp
The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973)
Sharp catalogued 198 methods of nonviolent action and demonstrated that political power depends on the consent and cooperation of the governed. Withdrawal of that cooperation — through organized civil resistance — is the mechanism of change.
Sharp, G. (1973). The Politics of Nonviolent Action. Porter Sargent Publishers.
The reality we refuse to accept
Americans killed by guns every year
More than any other high-income nation on earth.
of the population needed to change a government
Nonviolent civil resistance has a 100% success rate at this threshold.
mass shootings prevented by inaction
The only thing that stops gun violence is political will — and we will create it.
This is not inevitable. This is a choice.
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We demand
Universal Background Checks
Every gun sale — private, online, at gun shows — must require a background check. No loopholes. No exceptions. This is the single most effective policy to keep guns out of dangerous hands.
Universal Gun Registry
Every firearm in America must be registered to its owner. Accountability deters crime, aids law enforcement, and creates the infrastructure for a safer society. Every car is registered. Every gun should be too.
The movement needs you.
Civil resistance requires numbers. Every person who joins makes the next action more powerful. Sign up, show up, and refuse to accept that this is normal.