Domestic violence is an epidemic that affects women, children and families in communities across our nation. Firearms play a special role in increasing lethality rates in domestic violence incidents. More than half of women murdered with guns in the United States are killed by intimate partners; in 2010 alone, more female homicides were committed with firearms than with any other weapon. Additionally, the mere presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide for women by 500 percent. Yet domestic violence offenders who are federally prohibited from owning or accessing firearms routinely avoid the background check system by purchasing weapons through unlicensed private sellers at gun shows and online. This can have a devastating and lethal effect on victims of domestic abuse and Congress must directly address this issue. By requiring a background check for every gun sale, we can reduce violence against women and save innocent lives. In states that require universal background checks for every handgun sale, 38 percent fewer women are shot to death by intimate partners.

GUNS ARE MADE FOR ONE THING - TO KILL! THEY ARE "VEHICLES" OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. All other "vehicles" are registered and owners must pass tests to be licensed to use them. Why not guns also? Gun registration and training and testing with rules and regulations do not hamper your Second Amendment rights if you are safe and sane and responsible as an American citizen. But with guns, there is another added problem: the possibility of gun-running for profit from states with loose laws to supply the crazed demands for firearms in inner city ghetto areas where being armed is like living in Wyatt Earp's times of the Wild West. Years ago, the U.S. Congress passed a Uniform Commercial Code to standardize paperwork for much of interstate commerce. Today's need for up-to-date gun laws requires us to develop a modern registration system, administered nationwide by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). COME ON AND WAKE UP AMERICA - STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS!

Deaths from Mass Shooting gun violence are increasing every year. We urgently need to identify the causes and treatment of mental health disorders for those who may become a danger to themselves and others. Funding for mental health care must be increased and adding a fee to all gun and ammunition sales would work in the same way as the tax on cigarettes for cancer research.

Hi, my name is Jim Tate, I’m starting this petition through MoveOn.org because I stand with those Sarasota City Commissioners who support the reform of “Stand Your Ground” in Sarasota. Area Republicans are already expressing their displeasure. Gun Crazy right wing Republicans are calling it “an outrage!” and e-mailed Republican Party members castigating commissioners for including Stand Your Ground reform in its list of priorities. Let's show Sarasota Commissioners our support for the reform of Stand Your Ground in Sarasota and that WE'VE GOT THEIR BACK! By signing this petition.

In 2013, a bipartisan bill to close the 'gunshow loophole' in New Mexico died in the final minutes of the legislative session. In 2014, we're ready to finish what we started. But, Governor Martinez must agree to place gun violence prevention on the agenda for the 2014 legislative session and legislators must start working on a bipartisan bill to fix our mental health record reporting system and approve background checks for firearms purchases.

Just look for yourself at the variances in requirements in the 50 state laws regarding ownership and use and transport of firearms. Click on this link to see for yourself and judge this hodge-podge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state We need a uniform system - to be developed by Congress and good in all parts of America and its possessions and territories. This whole system is out of date and out of touch with reality. There is undocumented but widespread profiteering from gun-running from the south which has extremely loose and lax laws, transporting stockpiles of weapons to northern cities for resale at blackmarket prices to those who should not have a gun. This pandering feeds on the fears and fantasies and cravings for security and power by those who know no opportunity than the rule of the jungle - to take by force. THE USELESS CARNAGE OF INNERCITY INNOCENT YOUTHS BY IRRESPONSIBLE GHETTO GANGBANGERS MUST END - BY OUR TURNING OFF THE SPIGOT OF SUPPLY OF WEAPONS TO IDIOTS.

In the past week, there have been another two news stories regarding guns that have received international attention: the brilliantly thwarted potential massacre in another elementary school, in Atlanta, Georgia, and the random fatal shooting of an Australian exchange student in Oklahoma. When I heard in a foreign news report, about Mexico City's Gun Swap Program, I had to wonder: Why isn't this being tried in the U.S.? - It sounds like just what we need.

It’s been four months since Senator Ayotte voted against criminal background checks and the 89% of her constituents who support them. Since then, she’s screened out constituent questions on the topic, dodged press interviews, and rotated through reasons why she sided with the NRA lobby over Granite State families. It's high time Senator Ayotte held a gun violence prevention town hall so that constituents can speak with her directly about this important topic. Please help us call on Senator Ayotte to hold a town hall on gun violence prevention during Congressional recess this month.

Nevada is the 9th deadliest state for gun violence and has the 4th highest gun homicide rate among women. Felons and domestic abusers can buy guns on the Internet and from private sellers at gun shows. The majority of Nevadans support background checks on gun sales. Ask Rep. Joe Heck to co-sponsor HR 1565 which extends background checks to Internet and gun show sales.

This is a plea to Representative Jake Wheatley to open up discussions for repealing the Castle Doctrine Expansion (PA's version of Stand Your Ground). While his intentions to protect his constituents from violent crime are commendable and certainly understandable...these types of laws INCREASE the numbers of "justifiable homicides".

North Carolina's Stand Your Ground law allows citizens to defend themselves from a threat of violence without first being required to retreat. This law allows a wild west mentality and fails to hold the shooter to a moral or reasonable standard unlike the self defense law that requires you must first try to retreat.

I am a seventeen African American student that is tired of seeing senseless murders. Shoot first laws are destroying our community and taking lives year after year.