As everyone is certainly aware, a gunman opened fire in a screening of Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana last month, a shooting that ended with nine people injured and three—including the shooter, who killed himself—dead. This past weekend, a woman named Sarah Clements, whose mother survived the shooting at Sandy Hook, wrote an open letter to Schumer asking her to become a vocal advocate for gun control. The letter highlights that women in the United States are “11 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than women in other high-income countries,” and that “from 2001 through 2012, 6,410 women were murdered in the United States by an intimate partner using a gun”—which Clements points out is “more than the total number of U.S. troops killed in action during the entirety of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined.” It then goes on to say that Schumer should use the influence she has to “be a voice for our generation and for women.” In short, Clements wants Schumer to “demand change.”
It’s definitely powerful stuff, and Schumer responded to the post on Twitter by saying that she thinks about Jillian Johnson and Mayci Breaux—the victims of the Lafayette shooting—“everyday.” As for demanding change, Schumer added, “Don’t worry I’m on it. You’ll see.”