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.

That is a HIGH PRIORITY OF OUR AMERICAN PEOPLE'S CONCERNS because all of the children are really very very innocent that they killed in Newtown, Conn. Our US government should have lawmakers of Gun Control Restriction with Registration and Insurance! If without gun insurance, someone shoots each other that he/she will be death plenty without parole if possible. We don't want to hear our USA's futures to be screw up and spending costs!

Marissa Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three with no prior criminal record, was tired of being beaten by her abusive husband. She fired a warning shot at him in August, 2010, in Florida, where "stand your ground" laws are in place. While more than 13,000 shootings and killings have been pardoned under this law, Florida's justice system denied Mrs. Alexander that right. She was instructed to plead "guilty" to aggravated assault and, as a result, she would be sentenced to three years in prison. Instead, she insisted that she did nothing wrong. When she went to trial, she was found guilty by a jury in only 12 minutes and was sentenced to 20 years in prison! This is an outrage. So many shootings—including those resulting in death—have been exonerated by the "stand your ground" law. Yet, Mrs. Alexander was denied that right, despite petitions, marches, and cries for fairness.

It has come to the attention of us as a nation that the recent act of gun crimes that have spurred in the recent five years have become more brutal and dangerous due to the simplicity it has been to acquire these respectable power of weaponry. With all the fear and panic of what people view to be the guns fault for the violence, they have left out the biggest factors in the majority of these travesties. Mental illness, lack of knowledge for the amount of damage a firearm can produce, and accessibility to legally owned guns for illegal activity.

Who I am: I served 5 years in the Navy during the Gulf War, grew up shooting hand-guns/rifles in the mid-west with my Southern Baptist family, put myself through college at age 29 and now a mom to a 5 and 7 year old in school. "Let's not take away your right to own a gun but tax the type of gun one owns."