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.

We have just witnessed yet another horrific instance of the killing of young children and adults, this time in Newton, Connecticut. My heart is broken for the innocent victims and their families. We need to take action now to prevent mass killing and to reduce all killing.

I'm asking the news outlets and online forums to please stop releasing the names of shooters in massacres like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary. The news media refrains from mentioning victims of certain crimes to protect them and their families. We need them to stop giving out the names of those who shoot multiple people to protect us all. If people with mental health issues, anger, and a desire for fame cannot get their names remembered in this way, maybe they will look for a better outlet. And we should remember the victims of these horrible tragedies, not the shooters.

Gun Violence

Gun control.

Ban Automatic and Semi-Automatic weapons in Colorado.

Automatic and semi-automatic weapons were created for combat. They were created for the purpose of killing as many people as possible in the shortest ammount of time. There is no place for them outside of war. They are not needed for hunting. They are not needed for self defense in your home. They are being used in massacres across the country because they can be very easily acquired. Imagine a 5 year old sitting in a classroom trying to learn to read and instead being blown to pieces with an assault rifle. And then sign this petition. One week from today I will send it to Gov. Hickenlooper. We have to start somewhere.

Automatic and semi-automatice weapons were created for combat. They were created for the purpose of killing as many people as possible in the shortest ammount of time. There is no place for them outside of war. They are not needed for hunting. They are not needed for self defense in your home. They are being used in massacres across the country because they can be very easily acquired. Imagine a 5 year old sitting in a classroom trying to learn to read and instead being blown to pieces with an assault rifle. And then sign this petition. One week from today I will send it to Gov. Hickenlooper. We have to start somewhere.