Arizonans To Protest Senator Jeff Flake For Voting Against Background Checks On Friday

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Mayors Against Illegal Guns Announces "Shame On You" Protest at Senator Flake's Office

Flake Voted Against Commonsense, Life-Saving Solution Supported by 90 Percent of Arizona Voters; www.DemandAction.org

PHOENIX, April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayors Against Illegal Guns announced today that survivors of recent mass shootings will gather Friday for a "Shame on You" protest against Senator Jeff Flake, who voted with the Washington gun lobby and against the 90 percent of Arizonans who support commonsense, life-saving background checks for all gun sales. 

This week Senator Flake was among those who voted against bipartisan legislation proposed by Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey that would have closed the loopholes that make it easy for criminals and dangerous people to get guns.

Event details are below.

Phoenix

What: "Shame on You" Protest at Senator Flake's Office

Who: Caren Teves, son Alex Teves killed in Aurora theatre shooting
Deborah Parker, daughter shot in Phoenix
Jose Guzman, son murdered during a robbery at a Subway sandwich shop

When: Friday, April 19 at 10:30 AM

Where: Senator Flake's Office, 2200 East Camelback Road, Suite 120           

About Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Since its creation in April 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown from 15 members to more than 900 mayors from across the country. We have more than 1.5 million grassroots supporters, making us the largest gun violence prevention advocacy organization in the country.  The bipartisan coalition, co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, has united the nation's mayors around these common goals: protecting communities by holding gun offenders accountable; demanding access to crime gun trace data that is critical to law enforcement efforts to combat gun trafficking; and working with legislators to fix weaknesses and loopholes in the law that make it far too easy for criminals and other dangerous people to get guns.  Learn more at www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org

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