It's about reducing the inordinate influence of a very powerful gun lobby.

The mass shootings in Tucson, Aurora, and Newtown have prompted the American public to consider new legislation that will reduce the likelihood of these tragedies. However, the NRA has consistently stood in the way of common-sense regulations, often by pressuring the government to avoid taking a closer look at the real factors that are contributing to the national problem of gun violence. The group has also poisoned the debate about public safety, even to the point that they featured President Obama's children in an inflammatory TV advertisement. Given the urgency of solving the issue of gun violence, this violent and threatening rhetoric must be stopped.

Our grandchildren did not attend Sandy Hook, but we think of what our state of mind would be right now if our babies had been terrorized at that young age, and forced into loosing their freedom to live out their dreams. Gun ownership has become so common, that we are now questioning whetherr we are safe without a weapon in our home. We are concerned about how many other people feel unsafe for the same reason.

Gun violence is an intolerable and solvable problem in this country. We can protect our people and at the same time protect the 2nd Amendment by placing RFID chips in weapons. American Passports already utilize these chips.

Protect the welfare of innocent children. Avoid senseless violence and needless deaths. As a pediatric emergency physician, I can no longer sit by and watch this discussion deteriorate into an argument about the second amendment to the US Constitution. We must amend the US constitution so that children's rights take priority over all existing legislation. Only then can we enact stronger, federal legislation protecting children from this epidemic of gun violence.

The republicans are trying to win elections with fewer votes than the democrats by changing the way ballots are counted in Pennsylvania. Shame on you. You should try to be on the side of the people instead. And you might think about getting ready of those crazy tea party people.

Congress has granted itself immunity from many laws that ordinary citizen must comply with. Congress is not some form of royalty that exists above the rest of us

We need more reasonable limitations on the excessive killing guns. If the NRA doesn't want to work with the government in creating those limits, then they should be given a dose of their own medicine with an extreme remedy of eliminating the constructional amendment that empowers it.

My health care insurance is too costly, inadequate for my needs, and poorly managed by the provider. Members of Congress have made a political fight out of Health Care Reform, because they don't have to deal with the consequences. All U. S. House Members, Senators and their dependents get free and complete health care for life, paid for with our tax dollars, even after they leave office. If Congress members had to deal with the same health care chaos and inflated medication prices as all other Americans, they would be well motivated to improve the system for everyone.

I'm tired of politicians who care more about special interests than me.

To encourage all governmental and non-profit organizations to stop using violent tones or hateful tones against actions that are protected by the constitution. This includes Pro-choice, freedom of speech, firearm owners, civil servants, the right to assemble and many hateful and bitter statements of areas that should be protected by the rights of the people. Democracy is not about the masses preferred choice but the rights of the individual to be able to provide a resource for the greater community.

Make the citizens of each state responsible for the salaries and benefits of their representatives to Congress. It is grossly unfair for citizens in the more populous and relatively wealthier states to be paying for the salaries of representatives of states with relatively low populations and wealth, especially when these representatives vote against the interests of those in the more populous/wealthier states, e.g., Hurricane Sandy relief.