Every California citizen is touched by this issue including the 1 of every 200 Californians and more who reside in one of our 33 prisons. As a voting citizen of California and for the sake of our *children’s futures. * Will California Spend More on Jails than Universities?" By Sasha Abramsky

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A petition to mandate that congress create and pass a Public Safety Legislation Bill. The bill would classify voting on any Public Safety issues, but in particular new laws involving:controversial Gun Violence Control legistration, to be classiffied as 'secret votes". Therefore, the law would prohibirt any senator/congressman's individual vote on public safety legislation from ever becoming known to the public in general and specifically prohibit their individual votes from ever being made publicly known to outside lobbying groups. PURPOSE: The newly created law would free legislatiors from the fear of their votes being published, so they would feel free to vote in the best interest of the general public safety issue and not at the coersion of some outside lobbying group, e.g., NRA, etc.

Every Race and Creed is suffocated by special interests', corrupting of our democracy. Middle America is the boss,our employees (the senate and the house) should volunteer their services.

Many Hoosiers no longer feel truly safe in this state anywhere outside their homes whether that means going to a movie, visiting one of our fine state parks, dining in a restaurant. Not the least of the dangers facing us is sending our children to schools where "packing heat" is encouraged.

Big money has had a corrosive influence on our democracy. Corporate and wealthy interests are flooding our elections with millions of dollars threatening to drown out the voice of everyday Iowans. Legislators will tell you that they don’t want to spend every moment of their free time out begging for money, but they are forced to in the current system. In the past election cycle alone legislative races averaged $135,000 for a state Senate race and $50,000 per House race. Thankfully, we now have a chance to break the stranglehold big money has on our state elections. This week the state Senate began work on a bill (House File 43 & Senate Study Bill 1072) which would implement a voluntary public financing option for candidates statewide and place contribution limits on those candidates who choose not to participate. This is how we take our democracy back, by ending the campaign money chase and passing clean elections.

The use of drones to assassinate individuals deemed undesirable by the Executive Branch is wasteful of civilian life, constitutionally questionable (to say the least), and a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals. It should end immediately.

The Shandaken Town Board, at its Feb. 4th meeting, presented and passed a resolution stating ""BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Shandaken does hereby oppose the enactment of any legislation that would infringe upon the Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms and consider such laws to be unnecessary and beyond lawful legislative authority granted to our State representatives, as there is no documented correlation between gun control measures and crime reduction." This resolution, which was approved by three member of the Shandaken Town Board, will be sent to every elected official from President Barack Obama to County Legislator John Parate.

Let's take a solution oriented approach to curbing the epidemic mentally ill people committing violence. Get to the root cause of the problem.

Everyone knows killing people is against the law. Killing people with guns is also against the law. Laws do not stop bullets. Guns are not stopped firing by laws. I suggest more development of devices such as "Magna-lock" which does not allow guns to be fired by those other than the owner be developed, and required on all guns.

Our present education system is very outdated compared to most first-world countries. We have simply fallen behind. We need a fresh start.

On CNN News this morning announced that Congress is considering cutting soldiers pay. I have many friends in the military that barely exist on what they are paid. .