Keeping Our Kids Safe

Jim Inhofe will try to pit the safety of our families against our Second Amendment rights. Abby knows it doesn’t have to be one or the other.

Parents should be able to send their child to school each morning and not worry about whether their child comes home safe later in the day. This is a simple and guiding principle when having a real discussion about gun safety.

Jim Inhofe will try to pit the safety of our families against our Second Amendment rights. Abby will work to demonstrate it doesn’t have to be one or the other. Abby believes gun ownership is both an individual right and a constitutional right, and any attempt to distort that belief is false. It is our responsibility—our duty—to have a conversation about responsible use, because another senseless death is one too many.

Abby supports enhancing universal background checks to help ensure those who shouldn’t have guns can’t get them. She will, at the same time, work to promote access to mental health services and expand protections for survivors of domestic abuse to prevent crises before they happen.

And to be clear, Abby opposes any steps that may approach confiscation and will never support “taking your guns away.”