How many more people have to die before we become a "civilized country"? July 20, 2012; 12 people killed in a movie theater in Colorado. December 11, 2012; 2 people killed in a mall in Oregon. December 15, 2012; 27 people killed in a school in Connecticut. We should be able to go on with our lives without fearing to be killed in a school, a movie theater or while shopping. Possession of semi-automatic weapons should be banned.

Protecting our children is the number one priority at every level of our society. In light of past and present violence and the potential for future violence in our schools, the signatures below hereby call for an institutional policy of having a full time police officer assigned to every public school in our nation during the school hours of every school day.

!00% background checks. No sale of automatic guns to the public.

Stop the senseless mass killings. Enough is enough.

In light of the tragic murders of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we urge you to pass sensible gun control legislation and ensure that mental health care is adequately funded in the ongoing "fiscal cliff" negotiations.

END THE VIOLANCE,GET RID OF THE ASSAULT WEAPONS.

Gun control to cut down on senseless violence. Everybody has been affected by this tragedy. How can we protect our children when evil people can get guns so easily. I am a retired teacher and I know how little ones get scared with a clap of thunder. Or loud noise what must these little have endured with this ordeal.

Let's start stop the debate about what's the 2nd amendment means today and repeal it. Then we could begin to regulate guns as a privilege rather than a right.

Years ago it used to be "fashionable" to wear fur. For years animal enthusiasts have been "up in arms" over the kiling of animals for clothing and wearing fur is not just out of style, but frowned upon and stores selling real fur are few and far between. Yet, the mom of the killer of the children in Connecticutt was a "gun enthusiast", which is where the killer got his guns and no one bats an eye. How many children and adults need to die before being a gun enthusiast goes out of style??? How long before we stop accepting gun love and acknowledge guns for what they are, killers of our fellow human beings? How long before we are as unaccepting of collecting guns as we are of wearing a fur coat. Its time we put our children in as high priority as seals and fox and minks and stop accepting this violence as a way of life.

I was sitting in a hotel lobby, surrounded by a TV screens. Half showed the horrendous events of the CT shooting, while the other half had a crime show with an equal amount of carnage. I'm incredulous, that networks and broadcasters are allowed to make their money by promoting violence for "entertainment" each and every hour of the day.

We need to control the spread of guns and easy access to automatic weapons. Given that there is really no justification for an average person to own and use a military grade weapon and the fact that such weapons continue to be used in tragedies such as the Connecticut massacre, we need to change the Constitution now before it destroys more lives.

In a day an age where 29 states and Washington, D.C. have legislation allowing medical marijuana, and the Federal Government is on the verge of changing its outlook on it, Kentucky is behind the curve. Most of Kentucky's elected officials have yet to take positive steps toward helping terminally ill citizens get the medicine they need. Their only other choices as of now are addictive narcotics that do more harm then good.