Embarrassingly, aside from voting, I haven’t been particularly politically active since college. But since the literal president is like boy golly gee somebody should do something (😳), instead of doing even the bare minimum, I can at least make sure everyone else whose job it is to represent me knows exactly what I want to be represented.
Hello,
I’ve never reached out to a senator before. But I looked up the job description and it says: “The job of a senator is to act on behalf of the American people in legislative sessions to ensure the voice of the common citizen is heard.”
That’s me: common citizen.
We aren’t quite halfway through the year and it looks like the math is showing 27 school shootings this year. TWENTY-SEVEN.
What I find interesting and frustrating is that the solution isn’t particularly theoretical. In every other nation where gun laws tighten restrictions on gun ownership and slow down the gun buying process, gun violence goes down. Which makes a lot of sense to me. So let’s do that. You work on the laws, be very public about it, and tell us what you’re doing, and if you do a good job of that I’ll vote for you should you come up for re-election and your fellow representatives that help keep us safe.
Thanks, on behalf of myself, my wife, and my half-year-old daughter who goes to preschool here in Bend, Oregon. Let’s do work to make sure that school isn’t 28.
Looks like this dude is trying (maybe), but he’s just one of our 3 senators so I’m off to message the others and our house reps.