On Tuesday, the Academy Award for Best Actress - Julianne Moore, launched a gun safety campaign together with 80 of her friends from Hollywood, composed mostly of celebrities that are concerned and have the intention of ending gun violence in the United States.
Julianne Moore's campaign was supported by the actor of the 2005 film, The 40‑Year‑Old Virgin - Steve Carell, the host of ABC's, The Ellen DeGeneres Show - Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lawrence (the lead cast member on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show), the American television personality and actress - Kim Kardashian, Yoko Ono (spouse of John Lennon), the American actress and producer - Reese Witherspoon, plus a dozen other Hollywood names.
The campaign of Julianne Moore calls for guns to be kept out of the hands of lawbreakers, domestic abusers, stalkers and to those persons who have an unhealthy condition of the mind.
Julianne Moore also urges for guns to be stored safely, out of minor's reach - especially children.
The American-British actress said in a statement, "As American citizens, we feel surprised and saddened by the loss of life, and the daily increase of gun violence in our beautiful country," Moore also said, "We do not believe that the Second Amendment and gun safety are mutually limited ideas, and as a creative community, we will do everything we can, to give assistance to the safety of our fellow Americans, and typically into taking action to join us in this movement."
Julianne Moore is well aware that two weeks ago, a lone gunman shot dead nine people at an Oregon community college, it is said that it was the deadliest massacre on the United States soil in two years.
However, Julianne Moore said that the motivation for her gun violence campaign came from the 2012 fatal shootings of 20 children and six adults at Connecticut's Sandy Hook elementary school.
Julianne Moore stated, "I was like, 'I've had it.' I said to my husband, 'I've got to do something. This is the one thing that I need to say something about. This is my duty to deal with as a parent."
