WHAT YOU CAN DO                          

Contact members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and ask them to pass Senate Bill 31 out of committee when the legislative session resumes in January, 2022.

CALL: 802-828-2228 (Sergeant-at-Arms)

SAY: "I would like to leave a message for Senators Sears, Nitka, Benning, White, and Baruth. Please ask them to take up Senate Bill 31 and pass it on to the full Senate for a vote." Please feel free to add anything else of importance to you about waiting periods, but keep it brief.

You can also leave a message for your Senator(s) at any time telling them that you support a waiting period for all gun purchases.

FIND YOUR SENATOR

LEARN MORE ABOUT WAITING PERIODS

 

 


More information and tools for advocacy:

The 2017 study by Deepak Malhotra and Michael Luca (provided testimony to SJC and Senate Health and Wellness Committees, Jan. 2020)

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/46/12162

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/us/waiting-periods-guns.html

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/handgun-waiting-periods-prevent-hundreds-of-homicides-each-year

https://behavioralscientist.org/the-case-for-handgun-waiting-periods/  

 

Information on Vermont's high suicide rates

https://vtdigger.org/2018/06/10/vermont-suicide-rates-far-outpace-nations/

https://afsp.org/about-suicide/state-fact-sheets/#Vermont

http://vtspc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Delaney-9_27_18-VT-recent-suicide-data.pdf

 

The Means Matter--Harvard School of Public Health

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/