As members of America's unions, we reject the NRA's claim that union members support its destructive agenda. We are teachers, nurses, first responders, builders, information workers, government workers, and others who believe that our nation should act now to end the senseless slaughter in our community.

This petition is in response to the massive slaughter of 28 innocent children and teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, December 14, 2012, by a deranged man who had access to guns and went on a killing spree in this school.

As a high school student in 1999 the mass shooting at Columbine was seared into my brain. It literally gave me nightmares about going to school. As a high school teacher now, I still face the fear of a mass shooting each day I go to work. Don't we all? After all the workplace, school, mall, theatre and church mass shootings, there is nowhere left that feels safe. I'm not suggesting something so extreme as banning all guns, but I think most sensible people agree that assault rifles are terrorist weapons of mass destruction, neither useful for sport or self defense. Let's join together to honor those children and teachers at Sandy Hook and ask our leaders to ban assault rifles! Stop the mass shootings!

semi automatic guns should not be owned by anyone who is not a policeman, or in the military.

This position will arm all productive members of society. If one is fully employed in a private sector job and has completed high school with at average grades they will be provided with a handgun and ammunition allowance by the federal government. This will end crime. Police forces can be reduced and jail populations will drop. The courts have proven incompetent and corrupt so a board of machinists or dairy farmers will determine if victim was correct in his use of weapon to preserve order. No lawyers will be necessary in the process and they will be required to enter the work force in a non parasitic vocation determined by machinist and dairy farmer board. Please pass this on! Marc

The tragedy in Sandy Hook should have touch every American heart . Private citizens do not need these Assault weapons to protect their homes nor do deer hunters need Assault weapons to hunt game. These weapon were made to kill peoples and it's time that we get them out of our streets and communities . Call on President Obama and congress to decree a total ban on Assault weapons in this country .

After Friday's events at Sandy Hook elementary, our schools need more security in place! I cannot imagine being one of the parents at Sandy Hook walking away with out my child. It is time to take action and do what we can to stop anymore violence in our schools! Clearly, schools are a target at this point, and as my children's protector I will do what I can. Please sign this petition and help protect our children!

We propose a practical method to keep the second amendment right to gun ownership, while protecting society from accidents and senseless shootings.

We must break the grip of the gun lobby on our nation's leaders. Our civil right to live in a safe & sane society is now more relevant than the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. There needs to be reasonable restrictions on gun ownership including full & thorough background checks.

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?