Republicans should start representing the 91% of Americans and they should pass backround checks.

Most Arizona state lawmakers think its okay to allow guns on school campuses, bars, restaurants, and most places of employment. Why not their workplace? Why are they insulated from their own laws?

Over 10,000 Americans die each year from gun-related injuries. So why are Gun manufacturers protected under the law?

Now is the time to put your signature to a petition to keep the Senate and the Starte of Oregon on notice that this an Important Issue.

We need to pass gun control legislation in Arkansas which will help us protect our children and families in public places. Connecticut and Colorado have recently passed State gun legislation which we should use as our pattern to guide this effort.

My 10 year old son attends an inner city school in Washington, DC. He is consumed with concern that another Newtown could place.

My right to not fear for my life, liberty and happiness trumps misinformed paranoids' claims to unregulated gun ownership. Do not let the railings of the rabid right prevent the voice of the majority of Americans from being heard. We support universal gun registration and a ban on assault weapons.

I know of many who have suffered from gun violence, suicides included over my 73 year life span--neighbors, relatives, school mates, children of my students.

Like the majority of Americans, I want my elected representatives to take strong steps to relieve the growing epidemic of gun violence. While no law or set of laws will end gun violence, we must act now to reduce it. I urge you to pass legislation now that would: • close background check loopholes to keep guns out of dangerous hands; and • ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines to reduce the risk of mass murder. These common sense solutions will save lives without compromising our Second Amendment rights.

Show some courage and listen to the voice of the people. Americans want some reasonable regulations on firearm transfers. If you continue to listen to the special interest groups, you better hope they can get you elected, we won't.

Almost six years ago, my daughter Emily was in French class at Virginia Tech when a gunman opened fire, killing her teacher and 11 of her friends and classmates. Emily was shot twice in the back of the head, but survived. Last December, after a gunman shot and killed 26 children and faculty members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, politician after politician promised this time would be different and we'd actually pass meaningful legislation to help stop these senseless acts. But now all that's in danger of slipping away--because a group of Senate Democrats are possibly wavering in support of common sense measures like universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Enough! How many more mothers must suffer what I went through and the paralyzing grief the mothers in Newtown and across our country continue to suffer every day?

The pace of gun violence that continues in the U.S. is tragic and disgraceful. The dead, wounded, and grieving deserve action, not political posturing. Universal background checks and regulating the size of gun magazines are reasonable, constitutional measures that a large majority of voters support.