Earlier this week I tried searching the web for sample letters to send to representatives urging for gun control. All I could find was pro-NRA and anti-gun control letters, so I decided to draft my own and send it out into the internet world.
Please use my example to contact your representatives and make your opinions known! I hate to sound like an oblivious optimist but... we can do this!
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Dear
President/Senator/Governer/Congressman,
I am
writing to urge your support and action for stricter Federal gun control laws.
In one year on average, almost 100,000 people in America are shot or killed
with a gun. It is appalling that guns can be sold in the United States without
a background check to screen out criminals or the mentally ill.
Sensible
changes in our nation’s guns laws are long overdue. Please work to reinstate a
federal assault weapons ban in the United States and further regulate gun
sales.
Thank you
for your dedication and your invaluable service to our country.
Best
wishes,
Your Name
1 comment:
Thank you for posting this! I've been searching too. Here's my draft. I went the personal route...
Dear Senator,
My son Jack is 5 months old and the love of my life.
Unlike Jack, you and I grew up in a world where we could go the movie theater without fear of being shot. We could take an exercise class without fear of a gunman barging in. We could take a college class, read a book in our high school library, or sit at a desk in a first grade classroom without wondering if a bullet is going to end the school day for us. Unfortunately, that is not Jack’s reality. But it does not need to be that way. Enough is enough.
I’ve never written a letter to one of my representatives before and I’m saddened that it took 20 first graders dying needlessly to get me to take action.
I’m not asking you to repeal the 2nd Amendment. I’m urging you to take common sense actions to prevent these guns from getting into the hands of dangerous people like convicted felons and the mentally ill. I’m urging you to pass laws that would:
1) Ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines of more than 10 rounds.
2) Require background checks for ALL gun purchasers, closing the loopholes at gun shows.
3) Report the sale of large quantities of ammunition to the ATF.
4) Limit the scope of concealed weapons laws at the state level.
One attempted shoe bomber changed air travel safety forever and no one had to die. How many more gun massacres must occur before our lawmakers finally take action?
The 2nd Amendment gives people the right to bear arms but the rest of us non-gun owners have an absolute right to safety and to freedom from gun violence.
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