This petition is about gun control in the state of Illinois. We have a non-logic organization known as the NRA that does nothing for its members and the citizens in IL and wants to pass a concealed carry law in IL with no restrictions attached. No, we will not tolerate this rediculious behavior from the NRA. We need to block this concealed carry law in IL until our state can come up with the concealed carry bill that includes a Universal background check for everyone who buys a gun in IL, an Assault Weapons Ban that bans any Military Assault Rife along with a ban on purchases on bullet magazines limiting purchases to ten bullet purchases only, a mental health background check included, so that people with criminal records, violent behavioral problems, or mental behavioral problems from buying guns. We also need to not allow guns in IL to be sold at Gun shows in IL. We also need restrictions on where people can bring guns with a concealed carry permit like not being able to bring a gun into School Zones, Malls and Shopping Centers, Trains, Buses, Parks, and other public places.

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Every American is affected by their no compromise attitude. They want the poor and middle class to suffer and they feel no effect not fair if they had to do without one check they would do their job

Michigan's Emergency Management Law should be declared unconstitutional. Rick Snyder has taken away the power of several elected officials in his state. Even after the original emergency manager law was overturned, they just passed a new one. This can't be constitutional. But if it is, then why not take the law to it's logical conclusion. If the State of Michigan has so many cities in such bad shape, such that the governor can usurp the power of his cities' mayors, then why can't the Feds usurp HIS power as a governor?

This Act would require all US Senators to reduce their salaries and expenses by 50% before cutting funding for other programs.

Let's encourage our legislators to work within a timeframe by not rewarding poor work habits.

Every year since the passage of SB1070, I have volunteered to register, educate and mobilize voters in Arizona so that we can make a real, lasting change. We've turned out hundreds of thousands of voters and last year we reached record numbers of new voters! This massive voter participation exposed the inadequate election administration system in my state. Thousands were turned away from the polls or never got their vote-by-mail ballots. Rachel Maddow exposed the hundreds of thousands of votes not even counted until after Thanksgiving! So what do our politicians do? They are trying to fix the problem by making it harder to vote, rather than overhauling the broken system. First, they are voting on a bill this week that kicks you off the vote-by-mail list if you miss just one electoral cycle. But that’s not all! They’ve got another measure that would make it a felony for volunteers to help these voters by turning-in their vote-by-mail ballots at polling places once it’s too late to mail them in. They are actually trying to criminalize helping people participate in our democracy! Please join me to stand up for the right to vote in Arizona by signing this petition now!

Marijuana is ok to ingest, for a free people.

The federal government has classified industrial hemp as a nacrcotic in schedule 1 along with cocaine and heroin, even though hemp is not a drug at all.. Remember the government film "Hemp for victory" (in 1943)? Hemp has over 300,000 uses. It can be used as food, fuel and fiber. We currently import hemp from Canada (which grows some 550,000 acres of hemp). Hemp is arguably the most useful plant on the planet, and the people of Washington state have a God given right to grow it. Free the people from this unjust legislation. Hemp for victory 2013!

State workers in the current retirement system have to work until age 65 before receiving their pension, regardless of their years of service. (This bill allows workers as young as 55 to retire, but they would have to have at least 35 years of service.)

Congress regularly legislates laws on social security, medicare, medical, federal/union/private state pension rights WHILE the whole time being seperate and inequal from those systems they invoke on the tax payer paying THEIR salaries. Only two years of work as a senator give congress full golden-parachute rides their whole life while they vote to freeze cost of living increases to police/emergencyworkers/military and they are not affected by the same draconian reductions they pan out. Let's require congress to work a full 20-30 years before vested in the SAME pension the rest of us taxpayers work.

Take all the money out of politics. Not only should we overturn Citizens United, but we also demand using only public money from our taxes to fund short, substantive campaigns. We demand free TV time for policy speeches and debates with the public's questions. There should be no more 30 second sound bites. Politicians would need to talk policy in the (let's say) six weeks of a campaign cycle.