No other advanced country has our rate of gun violence. We can stop this only if the people force our legislators to put gun control in place and take this issue seriously. Prayer and thoughts don't cut it. We need gun control.

There is the presence of a group carrying guns openly in Gallup Park in Ann Arbor drinking and partying next to the children's playground. In the past I have been affected by this issue - in a couple of near-fatal accidents with guns.

There has been a group carrying guns openly in Gallup Park in Ann Arbor drinking and partying next to the children's playground. In the past, I have been affected by this issue - in a couple of near fatal accidents with guns.

See above.

How many more kids do you want to see on the ground?

This petition is rather self-explanatory. It's to offer a disincentive towards the purchase of such unnecessary weapons, while not punishing those who use guns only in respected, sportsman-like ways.

I believe the Second Amendment and the freedom to be safe can coexist, but significant changes need to be made to prevent tragedies. I support common sense background checks, closing the gun show loophole and limiting the sale of high-powered assault weapons.

There is no other country in the world that allows the kind of destruction we allow in the US from gun violence. It is time to stand up to the NRA and the gun manufacturers and do something to stop the carnage. We need to take back our freedom to live in a civilized country.

I live in Tucson and share the devastation of public acts of murder with those living in Roseburg, Charleston, Newton, Kileen , Blacksburg, San Ysidro, Austin, Edmond, Binghamton, Littleton and on and on-- all of our cities in which mentally ill individuals have sought fame by committing a mass murder. As a psychotherapist, it's obvious to me that major media collude in these heinous acts by rewarding the perpetrator with worldwide fame. At the same time, I am someone who has filed a federal lawsuit against the government in defense of the First Amendment, so treasure the media's right to inform the public about these events. I am asking Congress and the White House to create and adopt legislation that requires the media to RESPONSIBLY speak: In the same manner that we prohibit an irresponsible cry of, "Fire!", when none exists in a crowded theatre, we must limit the media from divulging specific identifying information about the perpetrator to only one readily accessible archival website where those who want to immortalize in their minds the identity of a mentally ill killer of children (or a terrorist committing a beheading) can go and do so.... ...BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE of encouraging other disturbed people to compensate for their feelings of powerlessness and damaging the American psyche-at-large by the systematic destruction of families, knowing they will be push-glorified, their rantings read and their faces globally seen and remembered for shooting bullets into school children, folks watching a movie, people eating lunch in a restaurant....folks just like us, future victims served up on a platter to all the would-be murderers watching the news, reading the headlines, surfing the web and plotting their immediate paths to similar fame.

It is my hope that the symbolic value of a flag so frequently at half staff will motivate change that recognizes the value of American lives.

With each new mass shooting, and on the heels of the horrendous shooting at Umpqua Community College, our collective anguish is drowned out by resignation that no action will be taken to stop the next shooting. Far too often we give candidates a pass – in the name of respect for cultural traditions, hunting and sport shooting, and the 2nd Amendment, we permit candidates to dodge the question of their support for common-sense gun safety legislation. But these killings must stop.

Too many Americans have died in mass shootings, from Columbine to Aurora and from Sandy Hook to Umpqua. The President continues to call on Congress to act, and yet they do nothing to pass common sense gun laws -- laws, which are supported by a vast majority of responsible gun owners. Until Congress finally moves forward with legislation aimed at preventing further tragedies, we demand that they erect a monument to the hundreds of Americans who have died because they chose inaction. Join us in calling on a national monument honoring the lives we've lost, located in Washington, DC near Capitol Hill.