Write your reps - Form letter and rep list

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In an effort to encourage members to write their reps, as well as to help focus our efforts and make our voices louder, myself and the leadership here decided it would be a good idea to start flooding some public officials offices with some pro 2A letters. Or things we'd like to see in the way of gun rights.

Something professional, short, and to the point. I am going to try to do my best to compose a new one each month, with the help of our members. If anyone else puts something together, and thinks it would be a good one to use one month, please feel free to volunteer it! The more help we can get the better.

I encourage everyone to fill out their reps name, your own name, and then print it out and send it off. Hopefully, everyone sending these letters will create a larger impact than just sending individual letters on different subjects.

Anyways here is letter #1:

Honorable (insert reps name here)

I am writing you today to express my concern with Michigan's laws on designated pistol free zones, and to ask that you please consider changing these laws which take away peoples rights to defend themselves.

I understand the concern some citizens may have with people carrying firearms in places like colleges, hospitals, and other pistol free zones, but we must remember that only law abiding citizens follow these laws. The only people that pistol free zones protect are criminals. Pistol free zones serve to give criminals the upper hand, as they know these areas are populated by unarmed, law abiding citizens. This makes for easy targets for criminals, if you will.

By infringing on citizen's 2nd Amendment rights(1), we have created mass murder empowerment zones much like the one that was exploited at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007. Pistol free zones clearly take away the power to defend your gift of life, one of the core rights we as human beings and Americans should have.

Everyone who possesses a concealed pistol license (CPL) has already undergone a comprehensive back ground check and taken the required pistol safety training course to meet the requirements set forth by the State Of Michigan (2) to obtain a CPL.

You may be interested to know that Michigan Gun Owners, a grass roots non-profit organization, has collected approximately 300 signatures in support of abolishing pistol free zones. This issue has become a main focus for the organization, and they plan on passing around many more petitions on this issue.

So again, I ask that you please consider repealing the laws that disarm law abiding, tax paying and voting citizens. My fellow CPL holders and I will be paying close attention to issues such as this one, when election time comes around. Please, do the right thing and protect our rights as citizens of Michigan.

Thank you for your time.

(insert your name here)




(1) Second Amendment states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."


(2) MCL 28.425b

Here is a quick and easy way to find your rep:

https://www.house.mi.gov/#findarepresentative

https://www.senate.michigan.gov/FindYourSenator/

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

You can also use "contact lawmakers" right on the front page of MGO

Thanks for the help everyone!