Today is the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. Just this week we saw more gun violence in a school in Colorado. While there is support for common sense laws that would limit these gun deaths, and the hundreds that have occurred on a daily basis in our County, the gun manufacturing industry is doing all it can to bully lawmakers into backing down. As an Oregonian, I am asking that our Governor and state lawmakers make a decision to divest in the gun industry and keep the public pension investments away from an industry that is unwilling to recognize or take responsibility for the consequences of it's actions.

The remaing funds from the gun industry must be divested. On a daily basis, there continue to be a signifigant number of shootings in Detroit.

We must let our State officials know we do not want our state's pension fund to profit from weapons. Not when these weapons are being used to kill thousands of innocent people. Please take a stand with me and let our officials know what is happening is NOT okay with us and it must end NOW.

A day before the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings, another school shooting occurred in Colorado, at Arapahoe High School. Schools in PA—like the one my daughter attends—are staging drills to teach pupils what to do in the case of a school shooting. What should be happening is gun control should be enacted in the wake of all of this—and the NRA's political power should be weakened.

I'm a mother, a grandmother, and a nurse. I've worked in urban hospitals that have had to be locked down because of gun violence. The problem is escalating!! Another school in CO on the eve of Sandy Hook!

Profits should not come from murderer's, or those who push and bully people around, and I am starting this petition to weaken the stronghold that the gun industry has on our proud Commonwealth! I just want to save people from the devastating losses that seem to be running rampant.

In the last 10 years, I've watched as more and more people have been killed by guns in mass shootings. When Sandy Hook occurred, I was confident that this nation would finally become disgusted with the gun industry and the politicians who protect it. Instead, our leaders do nothing. Well, maybe we can't get Congress to pass even an assault rifle ban, but, at least, we can stop financially supporting the gun industry with public dollars.

As a high school teacher, a mother, a relative of Columbine High School survivors, and a gun owner, I am appalled by the lack of concern politicians have had in creating real solutions to gun control. Our community's safety can only be secured when common sense is used when discussing gun control issues. But while the gun industry's political power is still strong, there is a way to help. Right now there are many city and state pension funds that are supported with dollars from the gun industry. Demand that such pension funds divest from the gun industry as a means to weaken the political power held by the gun industry and to clear the way for common sense gun violence prevention laws.

Until there is proper control of sale and ownership of guns, Tennessee governmental entities should not be in the business of making money from investments in the gun industry. The gun industry needs to help promote the control of the sale and ownership of guns.

To have Arizone divest the state pension fund from companies profiting from the sale and /or manufacture of guns.

I want a better gun free Enviroment for my Children

The smear and retaliation campaign by the extreme right against progressive Colorado legislators who backed this year’s gun safety reforms has taken a terrible toll. But they were right to not give up. Now we can see the reforms they fought for are working--preventing guns from being sold to people who shouldn’t have them--while allowing law-abiding citizens to go about their business. Common-sense gun safety in Colorado is making our state better.