On Dec. 14, 2012, my 10-year-old daughter was with me on a movie set in Queens.
A young man walked into an elementary school and shot 20 children and six adults in just minutes.
Simply keeping the news away from my child was putting my head in the sand.
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I wasnt helping her, or anyone else, by doing that.
So I decided to learn more.
Where guns are concerned, it is not a good-guy-versus-bad-guy argument.
It should not be a partisan argument.
It should not be a pro-gun-versus-anti-gun argument.
It is not an argument about our Constitution, Moore wrote on Tuesday.
The Second Amendment protects the right of a United States citizen to bear arms.
But a gun is a machine.
And if you choose to bear arms, you have a responsibility to bear them safely.
She ended the essay with a call to action for readers to help affect change.
We need you to continue to turn the tide on gun violence.
And I know that we can do it together, she wrote.
I dont ever want to have to explain another Newtown to my kids, and neither should you.
