Tragedies have occurred across America as the result of the ease of access to purchase guns and assault rifles. Innocent lives have been lost, families have been shattered, hearts have been broken throughout our country. Since the tragedy at Columbine rocked the nation, countless tragedies have followed with no action from lawmakers. Since the 1999 tragedy in Columbine, there have been countless mass murders due to the ease of access to guns, among other socioeconomic issues. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/14/1337221/a-timeline-of-mass-shootings-in-the-us-since-columbine/?mobile=nc Please sign this petition. I hope we can stand together and inform our lawmakers that we demand a change in order to save lives. No parent should be afraid to send their child to school.

To President Obama, who has run his last election and has no excuse for not doing the right thing, and to every U.S. Senator and Congressperson who lacks the courage to stand up to the NRA: It's not just the mass murders the occur with disturbing frequency. It's the unending day-to-day shootings that blight every city. The time for tolerating your inaction is over.

Not, but many children died from gun shots.

I expect the Congress and the President to address the carnage that happened in Newtown, Connecticut before we face another massacre!

Americans are affected by an unprecedented amount of lethal gun violence. We want our safety with reasonable gun control.

I created this petition for President Obama to regulate guns very strictly now. NO MORE PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN!!!!!

We must move from grief to action in the wake of the Newtown massacre. Let us make gun manufactures illegal in the United States (with a few well-controlled exceptions for "sporting" use or law enforcement). Give manufacturers grants to convert to useful products; begin levying heavy fines on those who do not make moves to comply within a year. In another action we will address the question of imports.

This morning I had to explain the senseless deaths of school children to my 10 year old son. This is the world we live in, but it's not the world I want for him. Firearms claim one life every 20 minutes in this country. Yet the purchase and ownership of a gun is less regulated than cars and pets. It is time to put politics aside, lobbyists in their place, and save lives. We need stricter gun controls.

Every time a murder is committed, the media is quick to include a name and photo in the story. As a result, the public all learn the name of the murderer. He or she becomes notorious. Rather than killing just themselves out of loneliness and misery, they die knowing that they have effectively become celebrities. And worse yet, nobody remembers the victims except their immediate families and friends. This is backwards.

Many Americans claim that their Constitution gives them the right to own and openly carry firearms. Most states have struck down limitations on gun ownership, but not one single state has provided for a balanced level of legal responsibility that gun ownership entails.

We need to reframe the debate about gun control. Every mother and father in America needs to stand up and say gun control laws need to protect our children, not " interest groups".

As a teacher for 21 years I am brokenhearted for the kids and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. We are loosing too many lives due to LACK of SECURITY. Its time to take ACTION to protect our children and their teachers.