Sample Support Letter/email For Senate Bill 0003 printable pdf download

Sample Support Letter/email For Senate Bill 0003

Sample Support Letter/Email for Senate Bill 0003

Name

Address

Date

Dear Senator<Insert Last Name>,

My name is ___________________, and I’m a voting constituent in your district. I am

writing you today to urge you to support Senate Bill 3 about Criminal Domestic Violence

during this legislative session.

Senate Bill 0003 strengthens criminal domestic violence laws to increase penalties for

perpetrators of violence. In addition, it also revokes lawful ownership of a gun to those

individual found guilty of domestic violence. This is a necessary legal step as a state if

we want to reduce deaths associated with domestic violence in SC! This bill is not a “gun

issue”. It is a homicide prevention issue. Did you know that:

 SC ranks #2 in the US for the number of women murdered by men.

 Of the females murdered in South Carolina in 2012, 71% were killed with guns.

 More than one-third of those charged with murder had at least one arrest for

criminal domestic violence.

 When there is a firearm in the home, a domestic violence assault is 23 times more

likely to result in death than an assault using another weapon or bodily assault.

 A recent Winthrop University poll found that 79 percent of the people in SC

support getting guns out of the hands of domestic violence offenders.

I sincerely hope you will vote to support Senate Bill 0003.

Thank you,

Sample Support Letter/email For Senate Bill 0003