This petition is not about stopping persons who want to protect their homes from doing so. It is about taking control. It's time to come up with a new plan to protect the populace.

Electing the President of the United States by direct one person, one vote. Ending the outdated electoral college system which in effect, disenfranchises the majority of Americans who are in either safe Democratic or safe Republican states. Our presidential elections are decided by maybe 10 states. This flies in the face of democracy. There are several ways to do this, constitutional amendment, or through the state legislatures who would vote to apportion their electors. It is absurd to maintain the electoral college. It serves no useful purpose except to preserve a two party system that is not working. Please sign this petition which will be delivered to Congress and the President.

Senator & Congressman totally ignore middle class issues (personally brought to their attention) ... and favor big business and wealthy PAC's

This petition is about congress getting special tax payer subsidized insurance while so many millions of American citizens cannot afford to buy their own. It is also about holding them accountable to any and all changes they make to the Affordable Health Care Act.

I'm petitioning the enacting of gun laws that will do a better job in keeping guns out of the hands of those with mental issues that should preclude them from purchasing or owning guns--something needs to be done NOW. I'm a survivor of a shooting similar to the one in Colorado. Mine was in Salt Lake City in a mall called Trolley Square--lots of people died there too.

These tragedies cannot be explained! We need to think about how we can stop these killings. When are people going to realize that we must change gun laws? No one should be able to buy two rifles plus a hand gun and and then all that ammunition on line. This is senseless!

Makng it more difficult to place initiatives and constitutional amendments on the ballot.

We are all effected by our current status of lobbyists running our country.

Lie detection and polygraph style analysis are mature enough to provide real-time feedback. Lets petition the major news networks to put on-screen lie-dection metrics similiar to how CNN provided live-feedback in the 2008, John McCain and Barack Obama debate in September of 2008: http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/scoring-the-debate-live-on-cnn-420/

Remove all special treatment the government receives. No special pension, no special health care. They are just like us and deserve to be in with us when it comes to laws and regulations!!

Congressional Reform Act of 2012 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office. 2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose. 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. 5. Congress loses their current health care system and Participates in the same health care system as the American people. 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

Members of Congress and all the Legislators exempt themselves from laws that they make, this should end.