These are common sense laws that should have been made law years ago. This affects everyone's safety and should be put into law today.

You don't have to be a Mental Health professional to care about the state of the emotional and psychological well-being of our citizens. If you are one of those who believe it is time to prioritize mental health and you agree with the statement above, please read on and sign this petition! In the not-too-distant past, affordable behavioral/mental health services were available in most towns and cities in this great country. Services included psychotherapy, family counseling, psychiatry (including medication management) and various other important community programs for people struggling with emotional problems, trauma, and/or mental illness. In the last ten-fifteen years, these programs have been systematically stripped from the federal and state budgets. Not only did this send countless mental health workers all across the country to the unemployment lines, it more importantly left hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people to fall through the cracks of our society. With the latest horrific school shooting occurring in Newtown, Connecticut, we are clearly sowing the seeds of this outrageous decision to marginalize the most mentally unstable citizens of our country. We can no longer hopelessly sit by while more innocent people's lives and families are destroyed by our government's unwillingness to shoulder the responsibility of the mental health crisis we are clearly experiencing. We must demand REAL REFORM -- and insist on the re-funding of public mental health programs and services. And we must demand it NOW. We can turn this crisis into an opportunity to take real action, TODAY. Thank you.

The 2nd Amendment protects the right of the people collectively to form a well regulated militia. This amendment enacted in 1791 is out of date, and in fact has been misinterpreted by the courts that everyone has a right to a gun. Currently, many local governments attempts to enact common sense gun control have been continuously blocked and overturned. Its time to get rid of this amendment.

How many innocent lives does it take to realize that we need more protection in our schools. We need to not only make gun laws stronger, but provide each school nation wide with metal detectors. Security guards, and cameras inside and out. The cost may be great, but saving lives is greater. Children should feel safe in schools and parents should feel at ease.

Everyone is affected in someway when the community's safety is jeopradized.

Guns are not toys.

It is apparent that a majority of the elected members of the United States Congress do not have the political courage or political will to enact meaningful legislation to deal with the epidemic of gun violence facing our nation. Accordingly, under Article V of the United States Constitution, we the citizens of the United States demand that the Legislatures of two-thirds of our States apply to the Congress to call a Constitutional Convention to adopt the Amendment to the United States Constitution set forth below.

How many more people have to die before we become a "civilized country"? July 20, 2012; 12 people killed in a movie theater in Colorado. December 11, 2012; 2 people killed in a mall in Oregon. December 15, 2012; 27 people killed in a school in Connecticut. We should be able to go on with our lives without fearing to be killed in a school, a movie theater or while shopping. Possession of semi-automatic weapons should be banned.

No doctor can practice in the U.S. without a residency. The number of residency positions has been capped since 1992. Unless more are added it is irrelevant how many med school graduates we have, there is a bottleneck. If you agree we will need a lot more doctors to care for our aging population and all the people who will be eligible for care under the ACA, tell your people in Congress to support the bills being proposed in both Houses to increase funding for training spots.

Isn't it about time that we stop killing innocent people including young children with gun?

Protecting our children is the number one priority at every level of our society. In light of past and present violence and the potential for future violence in our schools, the signatures below hereby call for an institutional policy of having a full time police officer assigned to every public school in our nation during the school hours of every school day.

High School should be reformed so that it helps students find what they are truly interested in. Currently, schools focus too much on preparing their students to take standardized tests. High school becomes an unrelenting routine of studying subjects in which you have no interest and dealing with peers with whom you have little in common, all the while experiencing the stresses of puberty. To relieve these tensions, I propose that students be allowed to set the pace at which they complete the high school curriculum, perhaps extending it over a fifth year. Students should be able to explore a range of subjects, pursue extracurricular activities, take some free time, and discover their true interests and passions. Also, they should be able to go to school just to attend classes without being stuck there for the entire school day.