Governor Martinez please issue a message on Representative Miguel Garcia’s rewrite of HB44--the bill which calls for background checks on all private sales at gun shows and which codifies our mental and criminal adjudication reporting to the FBI NICS database for the 2014 session.

I'm sick and tired of Congress meddling in the policies of the District of Columbia! We have no vote in Congress, yet Congress can change any laws that are passed by our locally elected officials. You hear Americans complain about the 'federal government intrusion' yet the most glaring example of this - the lack of statehood and full citizenship for District of Columbia residents - goes ignored.

30,000 people are killed by gun violence each year in this country. There have been 28 school shootings in the one year since Newtown. Through divestment, Pennsylvania can send a clear message to the gun industry that we no longer accept gun violence as "business as usual."

I have started this petition in order to help fight back against the gun lobby in the US. Gun sellers and manufactures are profiting from the mass slaughter of innocent US citizens on a daily basis. The state of Illinois has no business supporting this industry with taxpayer money.

After the shootings at Sandy Hook, many hedge funds, private equity firms, and local pension funds divested tens of millions of dollars from the gun industry. Yet a year later, there are still funds and firms profiting from murder. If Oregon divests, it'll weaken the gun industry's political power and clear the way for common sense gun violence prevention laws. We must weaken the gun lobby and its support of the ongoing carnage of our youth. Please sign my petition to Governor John Kitzhaber.

If the gun lobby can affect elections, we need to hit them in their wallets.

My son was killed in a home invasion in his 21st year. He was my only son and the grief of his death brought about his father's early death.

One year after the massacre at Sandy Hook, nothing has changed. If anything, things have gotten worse. Guns may be a necessary evil in society, but let us neither invest in their production, nor profit from it.

Every time there is a mass shooting, gun control legislation is proposed, people hurry to buy guns, and the gun industry profits. When the Commonwealth invests pension funds in gun manufacturers they are also profiting from the death of innocent people. Massachusetts can do better.

In light of all the gun violence in Colorado, it is time to divest from the gun industry.

I grew up in a small town in Washington state. That small town—Moses Lake—was made infamous after a deadly school shooting. If it can happen in Moses Lake, believe me, it can happen anywhere. We need common sense gun handling laws to both protect our children where they are most vulnerable, as well as to ensure that responsible gun owners are protected. Sadly, the agenda of some overshadows common sense by manipulating the truth with money. There is no price for keeping our children and their teachers safe. Therefore, with safety and protection as paramount and priceless, let us lead the way for transparency in funding.

A rifle owner from the age of 5, an NRA member at age 14, I am disgusted that the gun manufacturers have taken over the NRA and transformed it into vengeful political extremism. I want to reclaim our proud heritage and to loosen the stranglehold that the gun industry has over our legislators.