In 2020, mass violence (shootings with four or more victims) exceeded any recent year by 50%. Suicide rates have been increasing across the country for the past 2 decades. But closer to home, according to CDC data, between 1999 and 2019 Kentucky’s suicide rate increased 30% more than the national rate. Importantly, most Kentuckians who died by suicide over the past decade used a highly lethal firearm (64%), putting Kentucky thirteen points higher than the national rate for firearm suicides (51%). We simply cannot ignore these statistics.

Send your email of support for the Crisis Aversion and Rights Retention Order to reduce mass violence and suicide in Kentucky TODAY. It's simple. Add your address and then use the template to customize your message so legislators are more likely to keep reading!

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Please support SBXXX CARR – [town you live in]

[Start with your own story: I am a gun owner…, I had a good friend who died by suicide…, I am concerned about the increase in gun violence in our state…]

[End with why you took time to reach out: I wanted to be sure that you knew people in my community cared about this bill…, I strongly believe in the Second Amendment and Crisis Aversion and Rights Retention makes sense to me…, I’m a supporter of Whitney/Strong and I will be following the progress of this bill closely…]