Dear Congressmen Casey,
My name is Matthew Tallent I am a Senior at Haverford High School in Delaware County. I am writing to you this weekend the anniversary of the Tucson Arizona shooting, on the subject of pending bill H.R.308. This bill if passed would band large capacity ammunition feeders, magazines that exceed a holding amount of ten bullets. Guns of this nature have been used in many mass murders such as the Columbine shooting, Virginia Tech shooting, Fort Hood Shooting, and the Tucson Arizona shooting which happened just one year ago. The clips that exceed ten bullets are not used with the intent of hunting, they are used with the intent to kill. Six states have taken the lead on banning large capacity ammunition magazines as well as assault weapons.
In the past ten years there have been three thousand four hundred and nineteen murders in Philadelphia, that is more than the number of American casualties in the Afghanistan war. We as Americans must do as much as we can to take back our country threatened with guns. I know that guns cannot be wiped out from America but every step closer makes a big difference. I thank you for considering my request and I hope that you will do as much as you can to pass H.R.308.
Thank You,
Matt Tallent
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