The burgeoning prison system targets minorities and the poor.The California justice system has criminalized many aspects of poverty and warehouses people for profit based on their ability to find a crime as an excuse to warehouse them.I'm done with it.

Like teachers across the country, I take my commitment to my students' safety very seriously. That's why I was so disturbed when the Michigan legislature passed a bill that would allow concealed guns in places like schools and day care centers. The recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut drew more attention to this bill, but here in Detroit, we already know too well that our schools and communities need fewer guns, not more. Thankfully, Governor Snyder vetoed the bill after days of public disapproval. But this bill should never have gotten as far as it did. Ensuring that schools are safe spaces for students to learn should be a basic point of agreement for every education- and youth-focused group. Keeping weapons off campus is vital to those goals. But StudentsFirst, founded by Michelle Rhee, endorsed and supported 15 candidates who were eligible to vote on the bill. Of those 15 legislators, 14 of them voted in favor of the bill to allow concealed weapons on campus. When the Huffington Post reached out to StudentsFirst, they initially declined to oppose a bill that would have opened schools up to strangers with concealed weapons. They only said they opposed the bill after it was vetoed, and they haven’t made any promises to consider issues like student safety when making future endorsements. This is troubling, but Bill Cosby and Roland Martin, who sit on the national board for StudentsFirst, have both been outspoken leaders on the issue of gun control and public safety. I sincerely hope that they will make it clear that as long as they remain on the board, StudentsFirst should not endorse candidates that support allowing weapons in schools. Mr. Cosby and Mr. Martin have the power to make a real difference. Please join me in asking them to use their influence to help make our schools safer for our kids.

Ban the assault rifle to stop the senseless killing of our country's children, students, and citizens. Instead push for the hire of our nations unemployed veterans to stand guard at our schools. What better way for our true heroes to continue protect our lives each and everyday.

Let's do all we can to protect the school children of our state by having state troopers assigned to schools. The state cut funding for this program. It's our responsibility to do all we can to protect our children.

The ability to purchase and acquire firearms is much to easy in this country. I propose we make federal and state laws and requirements that would make owning a firearm as easy/hard as owning and operating an automobile. Liability insurance and yearly registration being the key components to my plan.

No state raises a militia by asking citizens to come bearing arms, so citizens need no right to bear arms. Let sportsmen be licensed to have weapons designed to kill animals or birds, and let government buy back weapons designed to kill people.

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Please help to stop the gun violence, for the sake of our children and all the citizens of this beautiful country of us, that seems to still be under the wild, wild west era. Put the unscrupulous gun dealers, who put profit before our safety in jail!

Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook[1] on April 24, 1954) is an American convict, serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.[2] He was originally sentenced to death at his first trial in July 1982, before his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2012.[3] Described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate" in the United States,[4] supporters and detractors have disagreed on his guilt, whether he received a fair trial, and the appropriateness of the death penalty.[5][6][7] Born in Philadelphia, Abu-Jamal became involved in black nationalism in his youth, and was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970. Alongside his political activism, he became a radio journalist, eventually becoming president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists. On December 9, 1981, Officer Faulkner was shot dead while conducting a traffic stop on Abu-Jamal's brother, William Cook. Abu-Jamal was injured by a shot from Faulkner and when further police arrived on the scene, he was arrested and charged with first degree murder. Going on trial in 1982, he initially decided to represent himself, but was repeatedly reprimanded for disruptive behaviour and given a court-appointed lawyer. Three witnesses testified that they had witnessed Abu-Jamal commit the murder, and he was unanimously convicted by jury and sentenced to death, spending the next 30 years on death row. During his imprisonment he has published several books and other commentaries, notably Live from Death Row (1995), in which he dealt with social and political issues. In 2008, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the murder conviction but ordered a new capital sentencing hearing because the jury was improperly instructed.[8] Subsequently, the United States Supreme Court also allowed his conviction to stand,[8] but ordered the appeals court to reconsider its decision as to the sentence.[9] In 2011, the Third Circuit again affirmed the conviction as well as its decision to vacate the death sentence,[10] and the District Attorney of Philadelphia announced that prosecutors would no longer seek the death penalty.[11] He was removed from death row in January 2012 and in March 2012 the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that all claims of new evidence put on his behalf did not warrant conducting a retrial.

The key to containing gun violence is to providing and enforce individual accountability for gun ownership. Minimum Federal guidelines should be established. The States can create even stricter standards.

Stop killings in America

US must move toward Banning Guns like Australia did. In US the only way things are done is by putting extreme pressure on politicians. NRA does it against the wish of majority of the people. We must create a stringe lobby group that will understand the language of Washington DC and know how to make them hear our voices. We can waste our energy separately, or create a group to the specific goal of ultimately banning all guns in US.