Americans have the right to own police and military grade weapons and unlimited ammunition. The second amendment states that it is the"right of the people to keep and bear arms" but we must impose the question, what about the constitution's "unalienable rights"... which state that all citizens of our United States have the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? All of these things were taken away from from the children at Sandy Hook Elementary school, as well as Columbine, Virginia Tech, Red Lake High, Thurston as well as countless others. Nearly 100,000 people per year are victims of gun violence in the United States. 20,000 of those victims are our children. They cannot vote. But they are citizens. It is our job to protect them above all else. Those same "unalienable rights" are theirs too. Let the deaths of the 20 precious children at Sandy Hook not be in vein. If we truly feel compassion for their families let us do something. Now is the time. We can make a difference.

I am a social worker helping people whose loved ones were murdered or suicided by gunshot in Los Angeles, CA. First we need to outlaw the National Rifle Association so they won't be able to continue to brainwash and bribe politicians and the public. Next we need to federally outlaw sale and possession of all ammunition and firearms, even for hunting.

Congress is not doing their job just fighting among their selfs like children if we did that we would be fired. Take away their pay & Health care we need to show them they are accountable to the people.

I have worked in the mental health field and am also personally affected because I have seen family and friends try to get help at various times to no avail, or they have been in-patient for a short period and turned loose to fend for themselves because of short-staffing or no room. Something needs to be done because there are so many people in need of mental health services in New Mexico and all over the country.

Only the U.S. government should sell guns, especially military weapons

these children killed....this madman who killed them. and his mother owed the guns. when will we banish guns from this country? why is congress so afraid of the NRA.? what can they do: shoot the president and members who pass gun control? we are a shameful, criminal country.

This petition is intended to have President Obama proclaim the first national week of awareness for the prevention of gun violence in the United States of America. We the petitioners are profoundly affected by the devastating loss of innocent lives due to gun violence in the US and request the President of the United States take both executive and symbolic measures to reduce and eliminate gun violence in this great nation.

As a longtime educator, the growing deaths from handguns must be dealt with, and now is the time.

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We are Americans. Not red, not blue, but red, white and blue! Like Americans everywhere, our grief and sympathy for the children and adults brutally murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary, and for their families, is profound and lasting. This petition seeks to create a memorial at Sandy Hook School that will serve as a lasting reminder of a community's, and a nation's, grief over the loss of these precious Americans.

Protect the Second Amendment without altering it in any way as another petition declares. The Second Amendment is sacred and as important to our Constitution as the First and without the Second in place, we will surely lose our First Amendment. Laws are on the books and must be enforced to ensure criminals who use firearms irresponsibly are punished to the fullest extent of the law each and every time.

Ban the sales of semi-automatic weapons and handguns. Limit the amount of ammunition sold to anyone each month. Remember the Connecticut school massacre and protect us, the American people, from having to mourn victims of gun tragedy every week of every month of every year.