More: Sure. The murder rate has been improving here recently. But the violent crime rate in D.C. is at a 30-year-low, and you are still helping them. So why not us?

Our situation is worse than numbers suggest. Our top cop, Attorney General Alan Wilson, has declared it is legally OK for men to get into a road rage incident, chase down the man they'd argued with for nine miles, get into a shootout and claim self-defense.

Not only that. A police department official in Horry County, one of our largest counties, helped the shooters afterward and one told the other the official had told him to "just be thankful that he wasn't Black."

Horrific. Just horrific.

You read that right, sir. Wilson has made it more likely for hot heads wielding guns to shoot at each other on our roads.

Sir, we are already a top 10 state for gun deaths. Save us like you're saving D.C.

Only seven states have a violent crime rate worse than ours.

Our homicide rate is nearly double the national average. Our aggravated assault rate is well above the national average " higher than that in the nation's capital. We are in the top 12 states for property crime. We suffer a high rate of drug overdoses, a scourge I know you are fighting by considering sending the U.S. military after Mexican drug cartels.

One analyst said aggravated assault, robbery, and murder "are common" here.

Our rate of rape is about the same as D.C's.

South Carolina's violent crime rate is higher than most blue states.

It's just not fair for you to be more concerned with the safety of residents of cities who voted against you than for residents who have repeatedly voted for you in overwhelming numbers!!

Sorry, sir, for sounding angry. I never want to disrespect a great man who has done so much good for this great nation. I just want fellow South Carolinians protected.

Even Rep. Nancy Mace, one of your most obedient foot soldiers, says it's too dangerous.

"In South Carolina, criminals are treated like victims " and victims like criminals," she recently tweeted in reference to disgusting dog fighting. "The attorney general is afraid to fight crime. He won't prosecute murder. He won't prosecute rape," Mace said in response to Wilson's declaration about self-defense laws, echoing criticisms he has denied as the two candidates embark on gubernatorial campaigns in South Carolina. "He won't prosecute human trafficking. He won't prosecute pedophiles."

I don't know how much longer we can hold on in a lawless, violent hellhole like this.

Only you can save us. I know we were the first state to secede from the union to try and destroy the United States. But that was so long ago. Send in federal troops. Now.

Please.

Sincerely, A proud (terrified) South Carolina native