US must move toward Banning Guns like Australia did. In US the only way things are done is by putting extreme pressure on politicians. NRA does it against the wish of majority of the people. We must create a stringe lobby group that will understand the language of Washington DC and know how to make them hear our voices. We can waste our energy separately, or create a group to the specific goal of ultimately banning all guns in US.

That is a HIGH PRIORITY OF OUR AMERICAN PEOPLE'S CONCERNS because all of the children are really very very innocent that they killed in Newtown, Conn. Our US government should have lawmakers of Gun Control Restriction with Registration and Insurance! If without gun insurance, someone shoots each other that he/she will be death plenty without parole if possible. We don't want to hear our USA's futures to be screw up and spending costs!

As parents our number one job is to keep our children safe. It is evident as a society we are failing at that. You can change that by signing this petition. We are not against the 2nd amendment but we are against high powered assault weapons. We are against anyone being able to purchase these kind of weapons that can cause massive casualties in a very short period of time. We are against magazines that have more than 10 bullets. We are against loopholes associated with purchasing guns at gun trade shows. The only place these kind of weapons belong is in war zone and our schools, theatres and malls are not a battlefield. No child should ever have to ask "Mommy is it safe to go to school?" and no parent should have to ponder that question.

Please do not cut SSI, Medicare & Medicaid

I have been a single mother since my son was 1 years old. When I went through my divorce I was juggling two jobs to make ends meet. My son's father hasn't held a job no more than 4 months inorder for him to recieve his unemployment and when that runs out he gets a job and then looses it around the same amount of months and this has been going on for years. Due to him loosing his job the courts will either lower his payment to 50 dollars or he doesn't have to pay until he finds a job. If you have a child the non custodial parent should be financially responsible for that child till the child is at the age of 18. It shouldn't become the Custodial Parent to be fully responsible if they didn't make the child by him/her self. Please sign this petition to help Custodial Parents get the support they need for their children.

Marissa Alexander, a 31-year-old mother of three with no prior criminal record, was tired of being beaten by her abusive husband. She fired a warning shot at him in August, 2010, in Florida, where "stand your ground" laws are in place. While more than 13,000 shootings and killings have been pardoned under this law, Florida's justice system denied Mrs. Alexander that right. She was instructed to plead "guilty" to aggravated assault and, as a result, she would be sentenced to three years in prison. Instead, she insisted that she did nothing wrong. When she went to trial, she was found guilty by a jury in only 12 minutes and was sentenced to 20 years in prison! This is an outrage. So many shootings—including those resulting in death—have been exonerated by the "stand your ground" law. Yet, Mrs. Alexander was denied that right, despite petitions, marches, and cries for fairness.

I will be personally affected as the amount I am receiving is very small already.

It has come to the attention of us as a nation that the recent act of gun crimes that have spurred in the recent five years have become more brutal and dangerous due to the simplicity it has been to acquire these respectable power of weaponry. With all the fear and panic of what people view to be the guns fault for the violence, they have left out the biggest factors in the majority of these travesties. Mental illness, lack of knowledge for the amount of damage a firearm can produce, and accessibility to legally owned guns for illegal activity.

I'm jobless and need to pay my mortgage. My daily expense has been reduced to minimum, and the SS is very important for my very basic needs.

Many retired people depend on their Social Security and Medicare for survival with no room for less. They have contributed over a lifetime of work so they could be secure in their retirement. They are ENTITLED to these benefits including cost of living increases. There is way more room for saving in places such as the Defense and Homeland Security and the Drug War.

Instead of focusing on access to firearms, we should be concerned with the help that is available to the mentally ill, in our sorrow over the shootings in Connecticut.

Eric Swalwell has a history of supporting developers, and he received large sums of money from real estate firms, builders, law firms, contractors and other businesses for his campaign for Congress. His campaign literature in 2012 said, "we need government and business on the same page," which is Republican-speak for "government needs to let business do whatever business wants to do"--in other words, unregulated capitalism, which is what threw us into the Great Recession, from which we're still recovering. Some of us--even some who strongly supported Swalwell in the election--are concerned that now that he's elected, he'll turn into a conservative, Blue-Dog Democrat, often voting with the Regressives rather than the Progressives.