HR 2646 and S 1945 are bills waiting for action...people are dying while congress dillies around. Millions are affected by serious mental illness and our support system is almost non existent for them. Please support, co-sponsor and help to move along these important bills.

I am starting this petition because I'm terrified by the escalating gun violence in this country. I am a grandmother, mother, aunt, retired teacher, Sunday School teacher and women's Bible study coordinator. And I will not stop fighting for gun control in every arena of my life and you should do the same. Please sign my petition.

I cannot continue to sit idly by while more innocent people are killed by guns in this country. Other countries have figured this out. Now it's up to us and our elected leaders to find solutions.

My husband is an English professor in a community college, the same kind of class that was attacked in Roseburg by a man with armor and multiple guns. My daughter is a 1st grader, the same age of the children who were killed by a man with an assault rifle in Sandy Hook. Until assault rifles are illegal and background checks are mandatory for gun buyers, I feel like my family is at risk. No community is immune to this trend in America.

We have seen too many mass murders, especially here in Colorado. If the federal government cannot stand up to the NRA, then we Coloradans surely can!

Hello my name is MJ Gresham aka MJroknrepublc a political rights activist and overall exposer of government corruption! I would like to take you on a journey of the last year of my life in hopes that hearing my story, maybe some change will come from it to help others not ever been subjected to the torture and terrorism I have had to endure over the last year of my life! I invite each one of you to see the website www.torturedinamerica.org as an explanation of exactly what my life has been like over the last year. I have had my son kidnapped by dfcs in San Luis obispo county then tortured in every single possible way by Santa Clara county department of family and children's services! Without ever having entered a shred of hard evidence against me these modern day Gestapo have ultimately had my entire life every single thing I have worked for taken away from me to keep me from speaking out against them! I refuse to remain silent any longer! It is painfully obvious that the entire government has forgotten who you all really work for and without an ominous undertone to this I am raising a lot of supporters to my cause! If the current government would like to continue in place my suggestion is that every single one of you take a moment to think of how exactly you would feel if without any evidence at all entered against you the state has taken your children locked them into a system designed to instantly discredit the parents and lock the children in for federal funding! Our children are not currency! And turning a blind eye to this has created a weakening of the American people's belief in our own government to protect us from such horrific corruption! I am MJ Gresham a single mother an illegally implanted tortured American citizen! I need your help! I am raising awareness of the horrendous targeted individuals life that is a direct result of the corruption currently plaguing our government! Illegal human experimentation on American citizens must stop! I demand an immediate lock down of all California child protective services offices and family courts! I envoke my rights as a sovereign citizen of the independent republic state of California right now and demand the immediate return of my son skyler hunter Gresham who has been illegally removed without investigation and without any cause to do so right this minute! Any refusal of this demand is cause to call to arms a civil uprising and. Civil war against the corruption of this government who has forgotten that you work for us! The people of the United States! The constitution of the United States has been stomped on long enough! The rights afforded to me and my child has been stomped on! The horrific deprivation of my rights as a mother and a citizen will not go unanswered! I suggest that if your current government officials in possessions of power wants to remain in power then I would take this quite seriously and make swift action to remedy the assault on American citizens nation wide! Public corruption is weakening American belief in our government making us vulnerable from the inside out! It must stop not this is the only warning that any of you will receive before I begin calling to arms all sovereign citizens to help me in my fight ! Please give me back my son! Thank you for your time! MJ Gresham aka MJroknrepublc

Most of the US citizens are affected by this. I am a 56 yr old worker who is once again losing a job to corporate greed after 25 yrs of service. I work for a fortune 500 company who is moving South where they can pay workers 8.00 an hour part time and not pay benefits. I have no choice but to take early retirement to keep insurance on myself, husband, and 2 grandchildren. In doing so, I am losing 28 percent of my retirement and will have to take a lower paying job. I am very afraid that the reckless borrowing of social security is endangering the ability to provide for my family in the near future. If it is not there, many elderly will starve and go without much needed medication. This is not meant to be used as tax money. We worked and paid in to it to insure the ability to provide for us and our family in old age or disability. PERIOD!

Can there be anyone in this country who isn't appalled every time we are greeted with the news of yet-another mass shooting? Or, every time we see more senseless gun violence and innocent lives lost on our city streets? I'm just one of millions who want change, and want our representatives in Washington to take ACTION, now!

IMPORTANT UPDATE: In December 2016, the Journal News revealed that County Executive Astorino will permit a new Gun Show to take place at Westchester County Center on January 21-22, 2017. In response, on January 9, the Westchester County Board of Legislators approved legislation to ban gun shows on all county property, by a vote of 9-8. County Executive Astorino is expected to veto the bill, and we expect to keep working to pass it, by obtaining enough votes to override the veto. We will deliver all signatures on this petition to the Westchester County Board of Legislators and County Executive Astorino in January 2017 before the vote. Please SIGN THIS PETITION and visit our Take Action center at www.PreventGunViolence.org to see how you can help. Thank you!! PERSONAL STATEMENT: As a Westchester resident, I am shocked and saddened by the recent horrific shooting of eight students and a faculty member at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. My friend Rachel was shot and killed by a 14-year-old playmate in 1982 when she was only 12 years old. Over 30,000 people die in the U.S. every year from gun violence, including suicide, homicide, and accidents.

My nephew's life was stolen and my family have suffered injustice at the hands of local police when called for a Wellness Check.

I was a Seattle firefighter and have had many personal experiences with gun violence including accidental shootings, suicides, and homicides. I never saw a shooting in my thirteen years as a firefighter that was in self defense.

Gov Synder sent in Emergency manager,who in turn switched the water from Detroit to the Flint river. This water has high, DANGEROUS levels of lead, which can lead to brain damage and/or death! Demand clean water for Flint and recall Gov. Snyder!