From the years of (1981 -2010) there have been 112,375 infants, children, and teens killed by firearms. It was predicted in a recent article that this number would skyrocket dramatically sometime within this year of 2015, if stricter gun control laws don't get created and persist. Recently a new bill has been proposed to allow firearms to be carried in Tennessee parks and even on playgrounds where there will be nothing but innocent lives hanging in the balance. It has to stop, stand with me and millions of others to innovate the future and get stricter gun control laws made now.

As early as noon on Thursday, the Minnesota Senate could vote to legalize silencers and weaken our pistol permit law. Minneapolis has "shot spotter" technology to locate the source of gunshots. Gun lobbyists are claiming, with no evidence, that shot spotters won't be impacted by the use of silencers. At the same time, they want to weaken our pistol permit law to honor permits from any state with a "similar" rather than "substantially similar" law, a vague and lower standard.

We want the public to use our parks and public places without fear. I do not feel safer knowing the person nearby is carrying a loaded gun. This act will actually keep people from enjoying our parks and public places. Veto that bill, Gov. Haslam!

I have no problem with responsible gun ownership. However, as a wife and mother, I cannot sit idly by and allow the state to remove the permit required to carry concealed weapons in this state. Without this permit practice, it will be legal for criminals, domestic abusers and the mentally ill to carry concealed, loaded weapons. That is a threat to everyone's safety, my family's and yours.

The Tennessee legislature has decided that local control of local parks should be overturned. This legislative overreach will prevent localities from setting reasonable rules for using our parks. There is clear evidence that carrying guns endangers the public. Many innocent persons have been injured in Tennessee communities by guns, to the point where we are faced with a health epidemic due to gun injuries. Yet, the Tennessee legislature has passed legislation to prevent localities from establishing reasonable restrictions on gun carry on their local park property. Please stop this legislation from becoming law.

I hope for my son to attend the University of Texas someday unless this bill passes and any wacko can legally carry concealed handguns onto campus. Common sense has been lost in this legislation. Please keep our Texas campuses safe!

I teach at the University of Texas and would much prefer not to be shot!

I am very concerned about the potential for serious harm to innocent students, professors, or other staff if young immature students are allowed to bring guns onto campuses.

Allowing people whose brains are yet to mature and so have poorer impulse control than they will later in life to carry concealed weapons in the emotionally charged atmosphere of a college campus is in really poor judgement. People could be harmed and die needlessly if this passes.

We don't want to be bullied by the NRA any longer. This week, Stop Handgun Violence released a billboard campaign that said "We're Not Anti-Gun, We're Pro-Life: Massachusetts Gun Laws Save Lives." The hope was that people who read the message would understand that we're not trying to ban guns, instead we're trying to enact responsible gun laws that help save lives. However, this message is the NRA's worst nightmare: responsible gun laws work. They immediately called upon their members to harass billboard companies until they removed the billboards. These same intimidation and scare tactics are used against Congress and the result is 83 gun deaths a day. Our message must be heard. The Constitution is much more than the Second Amendment, in fact we could start with the First. Please tell Congress to join me. We won't be silenced and the NRA will not bully us any longer.

The Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence wants to send a message that people in Rhode Island CARE about gun safety and want to keep guns out of our schools, away from domestic violence offenders and to reduce the magazine capacities of assault wepsons.

The NRA lobby has gone far enough in our state and in our nation. The idea that people can carry a concealed weapon without a permit to do so is horrifying on many levels.