There are at least 26 dead in Newtown, CT, including 20 children. And all the White House can say is that "today is not the day" to consider stronger gun control. You're right, Mr. President, that was YESTERDAY. And every yesterday before that one. The yesterday before Columbine, Aurora, and more. Silence in the face of tragedy isn't respectfulness, it's cowardice.

My background is simple. I am a father and a husband.

Children dying in our Schools

The multiple shootings in Connecticut, including more then 20 children, should awaken all of us to the need to reinstate a ban on assault rifles.

To all citizens of the United States: today, Dec. 14, 2012, 20 children and 6 adults were shot dead by a gunman in an elementary school in Connecticut. Last night in China, 25 elementary school students were wounded by a knife attack, however not one person did not make it out alive. The reason why all of these children will be able to return home once again is because China has enacted laws ensuring that not everyone with an identification and drivers license has the right to obtain a gun. We will never be able to prevent people like the gunman and the knifeman from existing in our society, however we can decide whether we want our children recovering in the hospital after an attack like this, or dead. The difference is staggering between how much we spend to defend ourselves from foreign threats that have yet to make themselves present, and how much we spend to keep ourselves safe from mass shootings that happen far too often on our own soil. Gun manufacturers make billions of dollars from not having gun control. How much more of our blood can we afford to shed to maintain these industries? Countries like Japan and Norway are proving that we are falling farther and farther behind developed countries where people live a better life without wielding guns. The right to bear arms ends when the 89 percent of Americans who own guns were unable to protect 20 children from being shot dead, and when the good these arms do is a nearly nonexistent drop in the sea of devastation that they cause. Banning the use of all automatic weapons and having more strict gun control laws are the first steps to take in ending these fully preventable tragedies in the United States. I therefore ask all of my fellow Americans to consider while having their dinners tonight the twenty six of our families that will never have another meal with their loved ones again.

I haven't been personally affected by the shooting at the Connecticut elementary school but innocent children have died at the hand of deranged gun carrying citizens. These types of crimes are happening too frequently. I believe this is due to the lack of gun control. It is time out for crying. We need to CHANGE the gun laws ASAP and make it almost impossible for anyone to get or carry a gun.

Children dying in our Schools

This latest shooting in Connecticut of innocent children and adults is horrible. It's going to take mothers to sign this petition to get Congress to once again ban assault weapons and also provide funding for mental health so that these troubled angry shooters get help before they go on another rampage. I want to see millions of mothers (and dads) sign this petition. This senseless violence has to stop.

Keeping weapons whose sole purpose is to kill people off the streets.

Ongoing mass murders to to US lax gun control laws

Every year more and more people leave a federal courthouse with a felony conviction that they cannot have taken off their record. It affects their ability to obtain housing, work, and lead normal lives. After the debt has been paid to society by the convicted, there should be a path to having: rights restored, record sealed from the public, and/or record expungement

Next week the Senate is taking up the reauthorization of George Bush's warrantless wiretapping scheme. Opposition to it used to be in every Democrat's stump speech, but now It looks like Democrats and Republicans alike are lining up to support extending it for 5 more years -- without even having a meaningful debate about these invasive powers! Advocates -- and even many senators -- believe these powers are regularly abused to spy on Americans. But law enforcement agencies are refusing to provide meaningful data on how they use them and whom they're snooping on. This spying regime is likely even unconstitutional, with the Supreme Court about to take up a case in opposition to warrantless wiretapping. Tell the Senate to reject the extension of warrantless wiretapping, and, at the very least, to make sure that there's a serious debate.