i want to walk my dog on my street safe in the knowledge that no one passing by has a loaded gun in his pocket

My grandchildren attend elementary schools and I want to help then get the best education possible throughout the years. I also want to keep them safe by decreasing the number of illegal guns; as well as, guns sold without background checks in the United States

A dear friend was directly affected by this when his five-year-old nephew found a gun and shot and killed his six-year-old brother. It was pretty devastating to everyone—friends and family alike. And now all these senseless mass murders. Somehow this madness needs to stop and stop now.

This initiative is introduced EVERY session, and dies in committee before ever making it to a vote on the floor. Stop playing politics. We do not want Daylight Savings anymore.

I am starting a petition to request our state pension to divest from the gun industry In honor of the students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Today is the one year anniversary of their untimely deaths. I am advocating for less gun violence on a grassroots local level to respect the Newtown families' wishes that citizens wishing to pay tribute to their children and loved ones do an act of kindness in their own communities. On a personal level, I was mugged and robbed in July in Santa Fe, NM. The young assailant crashed into me, knocked out a tooth, gave me a concussion and bruised my face, chest and ribs with the force of his body. Luckily he did not have a weapon other than his body. Had he had a gun at such close range, my injuries would have been severe, perhaps fatal.

Gun violence in Kansas City alone has tripled in 2013. My godson was gunned down for no reason. My neighbor's two sons were shot and one died. Our communities need to feel safe. Our young people deserve better and should be our top priority before our future slips away, right before our eyes.

The social and economic benefits of legal cannabis would be enormous. Millions of tax dollars could be saved from no longer incarcerating people for doing no more than our last three presidents themselves admitted to doing but was laughed off as if it was actually funny. We do not find it amusing in the least. If you deny people from using something that makes them feel better, then YOU are the criminal. Cannabis does not meet the criteria for it to be a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. It does not even meet the criteria for it to be called a drug. You work for us and you are to do what we wish for you to do. You represent the people of Kansas, and the people have spoken.

In my opinion the punishment does not fit the offense, suspended for a whole year and cause him to possibly miss his graduation? Come on now, should he be punished? I do not know, could there have been other steps taken to maybe remove Sam from this class? Absoutely, with the drop out rate of kids these days, not to mention other barriers to success many of our children face, for Sam to make it to 12th grade, then tell him get out? Unacceptable, I am sorry, but this is just not acceptable and will damage Sam way more than the teacher. Plain and simple the punishment does not fit the offense. Thank you in advance Governor, please help Sam get back to the books, please help him to keep his scholorships

The normalized frequency of shooting deaths and horrific mass murders in America is terrorizing each of us going about our daily lives. Just how does the Second Amendment right to bear muskets (shooting one bullet at a time) for self-defense give license to a crazed gunman mowing down a school of six-year-olds in ten minutes? You and I are the targets of a cold-blooded gun industry that promotes paranoia and a false sense of protection to drive sales, escalating a Wild West culture in which none of us is now safe. In a theater near you. Put the pressure on our elected officials to divest from mercenary corporations selling massive weapons of war as if family-friendly shotguns, easier to buy than a six-pack of beer, assaulting our country that's already armed to the teeth.

I do not want to hear about one more child, student or teacher placed in an early grave due to shootings and gun violence. It has to stop now. We are loosing many future brilliant minds due to lives being stolen too soon through gun violence. Let's stand and say NO MORE gun violence. We are DONE!!

Killing has become far too easy. Guns proliferate. In Indiana, it costs more to get a marriage license than to get a gun license. The application for a four-year handgun license is $10. The application for marriage when at least one person is a state resident is $18. Out-of-state residents must pay $60 for a marriage-license application.

America must stop its dysfunctional love affair with guns. This includes supporting the industry that produces weapons whose sole purpose is to kill. My Great Uncle Cliff fought in World War II because he believed he was protecting our freedom. He died in a mental hospital because he shot and killed someone who was simply knocking on his door because he thought he was an enemy soldier. Uncle Cliff was not a violent man. He was a man with mental issues who should have never been allowed to have a gun. This was 1972. Not much, if anything, has changed.