John,
In Washington, most children who die by firearm suicide share a heartbreaking commonality: They used a gun accessed right at home.
It takes an adolescent less than five minutes to find an unsecured firearm. But it takes even less time to prevent that tragedy.
Research shows that simply locking both firearms and ammunition can reduce the risk of unintentional injury by 85%. That is why we are fighting so hard to pass H.B. 1152 this session.
But we are reaching a "cutoff" moment in Olympia. The gun lobby is working overtime to stall this common-sense safe storage bill. If we don’t keep the pressure on our legislators this week, we risk losing a year of progress and more importantly, we risk more preventable tragedies. Will you chip in $26 today to help our rapid-response team keep H.B. 1152 moving? |