I do not want to hear about one more child, student or teacher placed in an early grave due to shootings and gun violence. It has to stop now. We are loosing many future brilliant minds due to lives being stolen too soon through gun violence. Let's stand and say NO MORE gun violence. We are DONE!!

Killing has become far too easy. Guns proliferate. In Indiana, it costs more to get a marriage license than to get a gun license. The application for a four-year handgun license is $10. The application for marriage when at least one person is a state resident is $18. Out-of-state residents must pay $60 for a marriage-license application.

America must stop its dysfunctional love affair with guns. This includes supporting the industry that produces weapons whose sole purpose is to kill. My Great Uncle Cliff fought in World War II because he believed he was protecting our freedom. He died in a mental hospital because he shot and killed someone who was simply knocking on his door because he thought he was an enemy soldier. Uncle Cliff was not a violent man. He was a man with mental issues who should have never been allowed to have a gun. This was 1972. Not much, if anything, has changed.

There are far better investments for the State of Nevada, such as green and sustainable energy. We do not need to invest in an industry that produces weapons that kill our teachers and children.

Too many lives have been lost due to the easy availability of guns, even including automatic assault weapons. Citizens' attempts to curb the sale of these have been thwarted by the weapons industry and the limitless funds they control. We must not support them, in any way, in their callous and overwhelming greed for ever increasing profits.

As a mother of two young children in school I was devastated with the Sandy Hook actions. My oldest being the same age and grade of these beautiful babies that were torn away from their families hit me in such a way that I wanted to do something to make sure no family would ever have to experience such a horrible heartache ever again.

I am Claude Conkrite, I am a Volunteer Community Organizer for Move-On, Organizing for Action, the Progressive Democrats of America, And I am a long standing member of the SokaGakki. A Buddhist lay Organization dedicated to World Peace. As a Buddhist and a human being I have no choice.

The only way to produce change is to hurt the gun industry financially! This is a first step.

Back in 1985, a good friend was killed in a convenience store robbery 3 months after he graduated from the University of Iowa. Then 23-year-old Miya Rodolfo-Sioson was shot on Nov. 1, 1991, along with other faculty members at the University of Iowa, in a mass shooting. I do not object to hunters having guns, yet I think the types and numbers of weapons available to people is ridiculous. The right to bear arms does not include automatic/semiautomatic weapons, nor does it include nuclear arms, chemical arms, etc. Since the NRA has too much influence and ability to manipulate the corrupt system of government we live under, it is responsible to take action where one can.

We were all affected that morning, as we woke up to the news of the tragic shooting at that Sandy Hook elementary school. All parents, brothers and sisters can sympathize with the horrible pain that those parents must still feel. Yet, even in the wake of that tragedy, more gun laws have been passed loosening the restrictions on the sale or manufacture of guns than have been passed to strengthen these protections! The reason for this? The powerful gun lobby and the money they use to influence elections and lawmaking. After the shootings at Sandy Hook, many hedge funds, private equity firms, as well as city & state pension funds divested tens of millions of dollars from the gun industry. A year later, there are still funds and firms profiting from murder. If they divest, it'll weaken the gun industry's political power and clear the way for commonsense gun violence prevention laws. Please sign and lend your voice to the call for state pension funds to stop profiting from the gun industry!

I am Claude Conkrite, I am a Volunteer Community Organizer for Move-On, Organizing for Action, the Progressive Democrats of America, And I am a long standing member of the SokaGakki. A Buddhist lay Organization dedicated to World Peace. As a Buddhist and a human being I have no choice.

It has been one year since the atrocity at Newtown. Since then, some 1,000 people have lost their lives to guns in America every month. It's time for New York State to stop participating in this insanity.