Please Sign and Share. We will deliver your signatures. Yesterday, another mass shooting took place in a school leaving 17 people dead and many others severely injured. The shooter used an AR-15, a military-style assault weapon with large capacity magazines. This type of weapon was also used in previous mass shootings, including Aurora, Colorado; Newtown, Connecticut; San Bernardino, California; Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, Oregon; Sutherland Springs, Texas; and Las Vegas, Nevada. We do not want to hear our state and federal officials offering their thoughts and prayers for this latest tragedy – we want action now! Military-style assault weapons and large capacity magazines have no place in civilian society and are only designed to kill and injure large numbers of people in a short period of time. We cannot allow the daily carnage in our country to be the new normal. Tell the President, Congress and various state legislatures (including North Carolina) to act now to ban military-style assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

It is time for elected officials to stop taking money from the NRA and supporting their agenda instead of protecting our children.

Two school shootings in Michigan this year. Are the gun sales not high enough? I would say the NRA is more then adequately represented in Congress. It's time for this special interest lobby to stop being represented louder then the actual members of this district and this country. Hiding behind states rights, and laws that could never have predicted the problems we find ourselves in now must stop!

How many families need to be destroyed before we come to our senses? Reasonable gun laws are supported by a majority of Americans. It's common sense and can no longer be ignored.

Gun laws are one thing. Making the user of guns strictly liable would be one clear way to protect Americans. Everyone is licensed and the license requires insurance, much like a car. Uninsured will be covered by gun manufacturers who must pay for the right to sell guns and are also liable for any acts or deaths arising from the use of the gun that they put into the hands of anyone. Liability is the answer. When someone else has to pay, the Congress will take notice. Market economics to control the sale and use of guns.

Guns are too powerful and in the hands of too many people. How many lives have to be lost? How many bullets have to render another person dead? How many schools, nightclubs, churches, music events, etc., have to be the host of people being killed left and right? How many people have to face the barrel of a gun and pray that the last thing they see isn’t a bullet charging at them, through tears causing their vision to blur? How many people have to overpower and reign with terror, all while behind a gun? How much has to happen before change happens? So many of the people we’ve lost to gun massacres could have done so many wonderful things, but more than that, they could’ve been around to see tomorrow, to face yesterday, and to embrace today. Military-style assault weaponry should be banned from civilian possession, including former military members. Psychiatric tests should be administered before permitting gun licenses and gun sales; tests should be given as regularly as every 6 months or so, to every gun owner. Complete, legitimate background checks should take place before supplying a gun, a fatal weapon, to someone. Control the type of guns allowed to be possessed by a civilian. You don’t have to rid of guns completely, but control the possession and restrict the uses of guns. Guns are lethal, and the longer we wait to change the culture of guns and control gun use and possession, the more blood there will be on the hands of all government officials.

We are barely 2 months into 2018 and there have been many school shootings by people who shouldn't even have had access to a gun in the first place. Most recently in Florida, there was a school shooting by a boy who had many Instagram posts of guns and dead animals. He also had previously commented on YouTube saying he was going to be a professional school shooter, yet he was able to purchase a gun.

The National Rifle Association has a financial chokehold on much of Congress. It's one of the main reasons why, in the wake of mass shootings such as the ones in Parkland, FL, Sutherland Springs, TX, Las Vegas, Orlando, San Bernardino, and Sandy Hook, we remain unable to pass commonsense gun laws.

Enough is enough.

I'm a high school student. There have been 17 school shootings in 45 days this year. Children should feel safe in school, not terrified.

The NRA's financial hold on our Congress is overwhelming, and it is one of the primary reasons why, in the wake of national tragedies, we remain unable to pass commonsense gun laws. This needs to change.

The US has more gun violence than any other country. We don't have more mental illness, or worse mental health treatment, or worse law enforcement, or fewer criminals in prison. The only difference is that we have WAY more guns. The easy availability of assault rifles and other weapons that have no sporting purpose increases the risk of intentional or accidental misuse, leading to avoidable deaths. The NRA has spread the lie that the 2nd Amendment prevents any kind of regulation of firearms. It doesn't. It was intended to enable national and self-defense via militias during a time in our nation's history when we had no army or police (and no assault rifles). Mr. McMillon, it's time to be a leader. Stop profiting from death. End gun sales in your stores and use your influence to convince Congress to pass common-sense gun laws.