I think it is time the American need to stand up and be counted. We are supposed to be a free society and yet we are afraid of everyone, our neighbor, teachers, and people walking down the street. We are afraid to go hiking, shopping, movies. We can be shot anywhere. We have no chose and yet the NRA says we have the right to bear arms. Claiming that the Constitution allows anyone be armed. This doesn’t happen in the rest of the world unless they are at war. Are we at war? Do we all need salute weapon in our home to protect ourselves? Are the Indians going to attack any time soon? It sounds pretty uncivilized when you put it into prospective. This is not 1776 we are not the people of that time. But even if we were they didn’t use weapons of mass destruction to protect their family. Since when is it against our rights when we have required the following for years. Birth Certificate anyone can find on line. Social Security Card. Driver’s license we have to prove who we are and if we can read and write. Insurance requires a driving record. Marriage license usually require blood test to see if we have some deceases. Passport request a back ground check. Most jobs do back ground checks. If you want to rent a house or get any credit, you need a credit report listing everything about you. If we really follow the law we would have to do away with all this. I cannot believe anyone would want to allow criminals or unstable people to walk around with military weaponries on the streets. This is a no brainer. We need to feel safe and be safe in our own community. Just look at the number killing we could stop in the gang wars if all guns were registered and a finger print was taken of every people owns a gun. We require figure prints for many jobs and no one calls that infringing on our rights. Doesn’t public and especial the children have any right to live. Why doesn’t England have this problem or France or Italy etc? Why not enforce the laws you have on the books now? Why are laws signed with expiration day? Why isn’t the law enforced in every state? Who is getting a kick back to allow unregistered guns on the street? I know money has to have something to do with not passing a law. My husband worded for the federal government 20 years ago designing one of the first data bases to track crime in the streets I know the systems are out there. This is just as important as “Home Land Security” it is “Home Land Security”. What are you going to do about it? If the law you create goes to the Supreme Court that is fine then it will be proven and satisfied that we are not infringing on gun owners’ rights any more than the right of living in a free society.

10 years ago my 21 year old son became a homicide victim in a still unsolved murder case. He was shot on the spot after witnessing a hold up. Our innocent children are losing their lives at each others hands.

The 3+ yr-old law requiring a 3rd party intermediary (Logisticare) for booking medical transport is nothing short of chaotic--even life-threatening--madness for Medicaid patients: An hr on phone, no guarantee of transportation (regardless of need),late or missed appts, side entrance trucks sent instead of requested rear entrance trucks, stretcher vans instead of wheelchair vans, left stranded at appt. site because wrong van sent for return trip and would not send another because "..it's too late and we require a min. 48-hr request..", etc., etc., etc. Scheduling medical appts through Logisticare has done nothing but cause mass confusion for everyone. IT DOES NOT WORK!!!

This about NYC Department of Education and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offering not JOB Protection for unionized members. ATU Local 1181 needs JOB Protection for safety of employees, children, and student, including passengers on Long Island Railroad, Metro-North Railroad, when some school bus are used for substitute shuttle buses.

On November 6, voters in 91 cities and towns across the Commonwealth voted in favor of the following non-binding public policy question by a 3 to 1 margin. The measure passed in every city and town in which it was on the ballot. The question called for our Congressional delegation to: 1. Prevent cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans benefits, or to housing, food and unemployment assistance; 2. Create and protect jobs by investing in manufacturing, schools, housing, renewable energy, transportation and other public services; 3. Provide new revenues for these purposes and to reduce the long-term federal deficit by closing corporate tax loopholes, ending offshore tax havens, and raising taxes on incomes over $250,000; and 4. Redirect military spending to these domestic needs by reducing the military budget, ending the war in Afghanistan and bringing U.S. troops home safely now. I urge you to promote only budgetary policies that are in accord with the principles embedded in the aforementioned ballot question.

Dear Azusa City Council: We cordially sign this petition to ask the Azusa City Council to create an Azusa Downtown plan with the following goals and then look for private investors to finance it in phases. 1. We want the Azusa Downtown to be a fun place to go to where people from all over the valley come to have fun that they cannot easily find in the cities around us. When people think of the city of Azusa, we want their first thoughts to be that it is a beautiful city and a fun place to go. 2. We don’t want our downtown to look like everyone else’s downtown. 3. We want the architecture to be beautiful, not ordinary. When you look at many of the old cities in Europe, they were beautiful when they were first built, they are beautiful today, and they will be beautiful in the future. If a plan is not beautiful, don’t build it. We don’t want an ugly suburbia look. We want a creative, vibrant and beautiful city. 4. We would like to see inexpensive live entertainment with many small venues that can offer small live theater, singing, comedians, etc. Giving people many live entertainment options will make the downtown a go to place to have fun. One thought to consider would be to put the entertainment in basements or on upper floors to help keep the costs down. Restaurants could be built on the main level, and artist loft apartments and/or professional offices could be built above everything else. The restaurants would work together with these venues to market together. We think that the Azusa Downtown will be a great place for this, especially when the Gold Line Extension has been completed. It is something that other cities in the area don’t really specialize in and we feel that we can provide that niche. 5. We would like to have at least one restaurant that offers dancing. And at least one restaurant that offers outdoor seating. Thank you for considering our request.

I have ten grandchildren that I want to grow up without fear of gun-toting maniacs storming their schools. As someone who has personally been threatened by someone I knew, I am against gun violence and want tougher laws on gun control, including background checks and limiting assault rifles. The second amendment should not supercede all the others. Teachers have enough responsiblity; they don't need to add stress with the addition of MORE guns in schools.

We have been plauged with very high gas pricing in recent years. I am not OK with a .20 - .35 & sometimes higher price range of the stations in my city. Can the federal Gov. help in us not continueally being GOUGED.

While African Americans only make up12% of the U.S. population, they are imprisoned more than any race in America! Why? Because of racist views and racial profiling of law enforcement which must end now!

This petition is in support of a automatic increase of the usa mininum wages by $2.00- dollars per hour every 04-years , every time a usa president is elected or re-elected into office.

enables 1/2 Billion dollar break to Amgen, a biotech firm, slipped into bill enacted into law by Congress recently.

Last election the people of Richmond elected Gary Bell to lead them on our city council. Now, special interests are trying to force the appointment of their losing candidate to replace Mr. Bell who is unable to take his seat. Local media, civic leaders, and many residents all support a special election to ensure that democracy prevails.