You MUST see the WCRA Fireside Chat discussing this bill. Seriously, go watch!

Read the bill here: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1181&Year=2021&Initiative=false

Simply cut and paste into your email and send to these Representatives! 

To: timm.ormsby@leg.wa.gov; steve.bergquist@leg.wa.gov; mia.gregerson@leg.wa.gov; nicole.macri@leg.wa.gov; drew.stokesbary@leg.wa.gov; kelly.chambers@leg.wa.gov; chris.corry@leg.wa.gov; drew.macewen@leg.wa.gov; matt.boehnke@leg.wa.gov; michelle.caldier@leg.wa.gov; bruce.chandler@leg.wa.gov; frank.chopp@leg.wa.gov; eileen.cody@leg.wa.gov; laurie.dolan@leg.wa.gov; mary.dye@leg.wa.gov; joe.fitzgibbon@leg.wa.gov; noel.frame@leg.wa.gov; drew.hansen@leg.wa.gov; paul.harris@leg.wa.gov; larry.hoff@leg.wa.gov; Cyndy.Jacobsen@leg.wa.gov; jesse.johnson@leg.wa.gov; debra.lekanoff@leg.wa.gov; gerry.pollet@leg.wa.gov; skyler.rude@leg.wa.gov; cindy.ryu@leg.wa.gov; joe.schmick@leg.wa.gov; tana.senn@leg.wa.gov; larry.springer@leg.wa.gov; mike.steele@leg.wa.gov; monica.stonier@leg.wa.gov; pat.sullivan@leg.wa.gov; steve.tharinger@leg.wa.gov; 

Subject: (Use your own subject line asking to hear HB 1181 to ensure they don’t just delete!)

Committee members,

I’m writing to you as a (pick one or add your own) veteran / spouse / family member / friend of someone who has committed suicide.

I urge you to please bring SHB 1181 to a hearing and strongly recommend you support this bill. 

Suicide rates are unacceptably high, particularly amongst veterans and military service members. 65% of veteran suicides were by firearm.

This bill will absolutely help to reduce the single largest component of gun deaths in Washington. 

The funding requirements are very low and mostly self-sustaining, which is critically important while budgets are so tight this year. 

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Feel free to add your own points as well, and share them in the Washington 2021 Legislative Action Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/walegislativeactiongroup