Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Thursday said America’s gun violence has exploded into a national epidemic.

“Gun violence is a full-blown national crisis — one that, on an average day, claims 91 American lives, including seven children and teens,” she wrote in a Vogue op-ed.

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“Our gun murder rate is 25 times higher than other countries like ours. And women are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a gun here than in our peer countries. As a country, this is not how we want to stand out.”

Giffords, who survived a shooting five years ago, blamed a combination of lawmaker apathy and poor firearms regulations for the nation’s tide of bloodshed.

“We have bad laws that make it too easy for dangerous people, including felons, domestic abusers and stalkers, to get their hands on guns,” she said.

“In most states, a dangerous person like a vicious domestic abuser with a restraining order has the option of buying a gun without a background check,” Giffords added. "At every turn, the gun lobby and the politicians it backs have fought to protect those loopholes.

“As I knew when I took on this fight, inaction in Congress and statehouses around our country is an evil. The status quo is an enemy.”

Giffords urged voters to make tightening gun control a presidential campaign issue.

“Let’s make sure that all of us — and all of our loved ones, our friends, our neighbors — demand that the people who are running to be our voice at every level of elected office lay out their plans for addressing our gun violence crisis,” she said.

“And let’s make where they stand on reducing gun violence a decisive factor in whether they get our vote or not,” said Giffords, who has endorsed Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE.

"If we do that together, then we can make sure every candidate around our great country knows that while today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day, this November will be the Gun Violence Awareness Election."