Gun control

Dear Families and Friends in the Thoreau School Elementary School Neighborhood, We have organized a petition through Moveon.org to support the following issues in order to protect our children and adults affected by gun violence. Please sign and distribute the URL to your neighbors and any other friends. This petition can go out to anyone to sign who considers themselves a friend of our elementary school. If you have friends in other elementary school districts please urge them to organize a similar petition around their local elementary school. Please forward the URL of the petition or printed list of petitioners and we will collate them and send a printed copy of all the names of this neighborhood elementary school petition to the legislators, the Concord Journal and other media outlets, Patricia Llodra, the selectwoman of Newtown, CT and other appropriate contacts. If we reach 10,000 signatures we will also print and place it at the memorial at the Sandy Hook elementary school. Thank you for your consideration of this petition. Best wishes for a peaceful holiday season, Robin and Kent Carlson Concord, MA 01742

The tragic killings at Newtown, CT was Friday. It is now early Monday morning and still that is the only story on the news. Is there also other news in the world that should be being covered? Do you want to know what else is going on?

This school is not far from where my grandchildren attend Elementary and Middle school and I want to insure that all the children who attend schools are safe and protected. I want school officials to make this a top priority , to lock doors, have stringent plans in place to avoid another tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook, CT. Stop the sale of assault weapons and make stricter laws to accomodate this. Keep our children safe.

This school is not far from where my grandchildren attend Elementary and Middle school and I want to insure that all the children who attend schools are safe and protected. I want school officials to make this a top priority , to lock doors, have stringent plans in place to avoid another tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook, CT. Stop the sale of assault weapons and make stricter laws to accomodate this. Keep our children safe.

I am sick of innocents dying because the wrong people have guns

These are common sense laws that should have been made law years ago. This affects everyone's safety and should be put into law today.

Everyone is affected in someway when the community's safety is jeopradized.

Guns are not toys.

Isn't it about time that we stop killing innocent people including young children with gun?

I have had enough death and dying by way of bullets in this country that constitutionally boasts of freedom. I stand with the second ammendment right to bear arms, but lets get real: we don't need automatic assault weaponry to shoot game. I myself have never owned a gun, but I also appreciate those who do shoot to feed families, these are not the folks I speak of. Keep handguns legal,but, please! Stop the AR weapons and bullets. Love, a Democrat and Republican voter.

As a school employee, I realize the tragedy in Newtown could happen at any of our schools.