My daily letter to congress

I'm sending some variant of this every day using the congress.org contact form http://www.congress....=ML&MC_targets=

This is short & to the point targeting the FACTS and hoping for some response that I doubt I'll get. If you're not contacting your representative government you're not doing your job to preserve our rights...election is over and unless we start getting some recalls or impeachments this is our only avenue to be heard directly. I agree with what others have said here about participating in and donating to advocacy groups...but I plan to make my voice head directly as much as possible. If you have the opportunity to engage your representative or our senators in person you should take advantage of it.

Do yourself a favor and make sure your congressional district hasn't changed. I voted in district 7 in Nov, I was on their list at the ballot location, but between then and now I've been gerrymandered into district 12. Make sure you're talking to the right person!

http://www.govtrack....ress/members/NJ

Elected Representatives

Multitudes of data show gun bans & functional restrictions (i.e. stock, mag capacity, etc) have zero effect on violent crime. The differentation here is gun crime vs violent crime; and you're smart enough to know the difference.

Here are links from gov't websites with stats that support this. This is fact, not opinion.

FBI and English Home Office Crime Data

-http://www.fbi.gov/a..._group_2011.xls

-http://www.homeoffic...812?view=Binary

-http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

I have ideas on how to improve the process by which we license people to own guns, because the process on the books even in the more restrictive states has holes that MUST be addressed to keep weapons out of the wrong hands, but this has nothing to do with gun registration, bans, or functional restrictions and everything to do with WHO and HOW.

Please fulfill the function conceived by the framers and think rationally about what is best for the people when the people can't think rationally for themselves. Please act for them, and not for yourselves. Please represent the majority of your constituents rather than your loud and rich base.

Hoping for true leadership and not pandering

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