• Decriminalize marijuana: legalize medicinal usage
    The statistics and the facts are staggering: More than 40 people a day across the country die from prescription pain medication overdoses; more and more doctors are getting huge payouts from pharmaceutical companies to promote these drugs; and in the past 10 years, U.S. spending on prescription drugs rose 475 percent. The current count on people dying of marijuana overdose? ZERO. Let's give a truly safe drug a medicinal purpose.
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    Created by Erin Stillson
  • Universal Background Checks for Firearms Transfers
    Gun related deaths are a national epidemic. Many people who are legally prohibited from owning a firearm can still purchase them through private sales and gun shows. Universal Background checks would reduce the number of sales to these people. A gun in the home is more like to be used on a family member or acquaintance than it is on a burglar or as a means of committing suicide. It is just too easy to lose your temper, pick up a gun and shoot someone dead.
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    Created by Diana Schwartz
  • Tougher Laws on Child Abuse and Animal Abuse
    Does not anyone realize that animal abuse and child abuse go hand and hand. A person who commits a crime against an innocent animal will do the same to an innocent child. I moved to KY from NH and am very appalled that child abuse is not an issue that is addressed here in KY. Animal and child abusers see a big welcome sign here in KY. Welcome the state where you can abuse a child and an animal and get away with it.
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    Created by April
  • Universal background checks for ALL gun sales
    Self-explanatory. NO gun should be sold in the U.S. unless the buyer passes a universal background check, proving he/she is NOT a danger to anyone else, by having NO known mental illnesses, a protection from abuse order, or felony conviction.
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    Created by Gregory J. Jaskolka
  • Protecting the public from the menace of guns
    Obviously, people need to be concerned that there are so many guns in circulation and so many deaths as a result of that.
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    Created by Ken Stevens
  • Make concealed weapons Illegal
    No one, other than law enforcement and the military needs to carry a concealed weapon. If you have a legitimate need to carry a weapon there is no reason to hide it.
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    Created by John Doyle
  • Appropriately Penalize Gun Assisted Crime
    The possession or use of a weapon in commission of a crime is always life-threatening, whether the weapon is fired or not. There must be a stiff penalty for this. Current laws do not make anyone think twice before using a gun to threaten or harm someone.
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    Created by John Doyle
  • Outlaw Automatic and Semi-Automatic Weapons in Maine
    Weapons are a serious health and safety issue. Automatic and semi-automatic weapons are battlefield equipment designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible. Maine is not at war with itself or with anyone else. These weapons are no different than the plague or the black death. We are all repeatedly affected by this "disease" and need to eliminate it.
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    Created by John Doyle
  • Ban the death penalty
    By enforcing the death penalty, states like PA are using the immoral act of vengeance as punishment. Studies have shown that it is not a deterrent; it is many times more costly than is a sentence of life in prison; it is much more likely to be imposed on the poor and minorities; and, worst of all, innocent people have been killed because of it. More than 130 people have been exonerated after having spent years on death row. No modern democracies support its use.
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    Created by Charlie O'Neill
  • Gun Control
    Gun control, gun control, gun control. Let me say it again - GUN CONTROL: assault weapons ban high round clip ban universal background checks including gun shows
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    Created by carson farley
  • Gov. Nixon: Allow Missouri Farmers to Grow Hemp
    Hemp is currently illegal in the US. Many American farmers wish to grow it to grow jobs, the economy and reduce our carbon footprint!
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    Created by Ashli
  • [email protected]
    All who want to legalize pot in Georgia should sign this petition to Governor Deal and the Georgia legislature.
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    Created by Rev. Paul J. Bern