In the Navy, Rebecca operated weapons of war and trained her fellow Sailors how to use them. She knows the purpose they serve and that they should not be on our streets.
People should be able to feel safe where they live, where they work, and where they send their kids to school. Rebecca shares the same worries as all New Jersey parents when it’s time for her girls to leave for school – what if they don’t come home safe at the end of the day? We can envision a New Jersey where we feel safe in our communities, free from an epidemic of gun violence. It’s well past time for Congress to make it a reality.
In Congress, Rebecca will:
- Pass commonsense, popular gun safety reforms to keep firearms out of the hands of those who shouldn’t have them and make our communities less safe to live and work in.
- Get weapons of war off our streets – it should not be easier for untrained civilians to access these weapons than it is for members of our armed forces.
- Support the essential work our law enforcement officers do to keep our communities safe and work to build trust with the communities they police.
- Ensure local law enforcement agencies have the resources and tools they need to protect New Jersey families – at school, at home, and everywhere in between.
- Address America’s mental health crisis by providing greater access to both long-term and crisis services.
- Reimplement the tax on silencers to make it harder for criminals to turn their firearms into mass killing devices.
- Restore funding for gun safety research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and reopen the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
