Easy Action of the Day #24: BARRAGE HOUSE WEAK DEMS re: ESSB 6288 OFFICE OF FIREARM VIOLENCE PROTECTION
Email WEAK House (Ds) TODAY to make your voice heard LOUDLY!
2 MINUTES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
(SERIOUSLY! EVEN ON MOBILE!)
6288 leaves committee today for Rules; could go to House floor at any time!
WE'RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. ANTI-GUNNERS ARE COMPLAINING WE'RE BETTER ORGANIZED AND MORE ACTIVE THAN EVER! HA!
WELL DONE!
WE NEED TO KEEP PUSHING. WE NEED TO BE LOUDER!! WE DESERVE TO BE HEARD!!!
Post DONE below when you've helped take action to save our civil rights!
These weakest Dems won by LESS THAN 8% margin, and they're ALL up for re-election this year!
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Representatives,
I strongly OPPOSE ESSB 6288, creating the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention. Please vote NO on ESSB 6288.
- There is no gun violence epidemic. Our current homicide rate is the lowest in our lifetimes. We have never been this safe from homicide since the late 1950s! (BJ Campbell)
- Gun homicide rate is down 49% since peaking in 1993, but the public perceives the opposite (Pew Research)
- In 2017, there were only 228 murders in Washington, and a mere 134 used a firearm (FBI)
- University of Washington admits that a whopping 75.3% of firearm deaths in 2017 are from suicide--NOT gun violence (UW)
- The taxpayer-funded Washington Mass Shootings Work Group Report specifically recommended "accessible and effective mental health services" as an "effective means of intervening against a potential perpetrator of mass shootings" (WA Mass Shootings Work Group)
Please vote NO on ESSB 6288.
Sources: (feel free to include or not)
- BJ Campbell: http://freakoutery.com/2018/07/the-gun-homicide-epidemic-isnt/
- Pew Research: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
- FBI: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/table-20
- UW Firearm Deaths: http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/firearm/#1560530938768-d27128d5-e8b7
- Washington Mass Shootings Work Group: https://www.waspc.org/assets/docs/Mass%20Shootings%20Work%20Group%20Report%20(Compressed%20File).pdf
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