This can be a serious distraction and has been the cause of harmful accidents.

How many innocent lives does it take to realize that we need more protection in our schools. We need to not only make gun laws stronger, but provide each school nation wide with metal detectors. Security guards, and cameras inside and out. The cost may be great, but saving lives is greater. Children should feel safe in schools and parents should feel at ease.

State and Local Governments for years have been burdened with Defined Benefit Programs that are Actuarial unsound. These Golden Parachutes for Public Employees, have been and will continue to add hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Deficits to State and Local Governments. These costs guaranteed by the Tax Payers are Unsustainable in a Speculative Collapsing Economy .

With our voracious appetite for news, I believe we're encouraging these mass killers to one-up each other by publishing their names and backgrounds, thus allowing them to become infamous.

Last night at a Christmas concert in my church we began with prayers for the shooting in Connecticut. I could hear others crying as was I when the priest said the names of the children and teachers who died and then the name of the shooter. The traditional readings and songs, with imagery of innocent babies, the coming of the Prince of Peace and the words, "Comfort, Comfort Ye My People" carried a whole new meaning. I thought, let's seize this moment to try and end gun violence.

The reason I created this petition is to help stop Westboro Baptist "Church's" hate mongering.

The signatures on this petition represent a collective demand for a bipartisan discussion resulting in a set of laws that regulates (as the 2nd Amendment requires) how a citizen obtains a gun

I just read the quote popularly attributed to Morgan Freeman regarding all these senseless shootings. Whoever said this -- Morgan Freeman or someone else -- may very well be on to something. How about if the media stops reporting the identity of these terrorists? No names, no photos, nothing. It would be a very interesting experiment. And, really, does any of us even care about knowing these disturbed individuals' names or seeing their photos? Would it leave a void in your life to NOT have that information? Does hearing their names or seeing their photos enrich your life in any way? I don't want any more innocent people -- especially children! -- terrorized, injured, and murdered at the hands of someone who will do anything to go down in infamy as a household name.

After all the shooting schools have been through during these last years & especially the most recent school of Sandy Hook Elementary School it is a desperate need to be able to cover all of our children by allowing prayer back in our schools!

After all the shooting schools have been through during these last years & especially the most recent school of Sandy Hook Elementary School it is a desperate need to be able to cover all of our children by allowing prayer back in our schools!

After all the shooting schools have been through during these last years & especially the most recent school of Sandy Hook Elementary School it is a desperate need to be able to cover all of our children by allowing prayer back in our schools!

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