free medical care for mentally unstablepeople. tight gun control laws

Yesterday's tragedy in Connecticut should be a wake-up call. Gun laws are too lax, inviting tragedies like Sandy Hook to happen.

As the nation grieves for twenty schoolchildren gunned down in Connecticut, the religious right has the audacity to blame America's public schools for protecting students' religious freedom. The American Family Association's leading spokesman used his radio show to argue that God allows violence in public schools because the Supreme Court has prohibited mandatory school prayers. And speaking live on Fox News, Mike Huckabee said that this shooting happened because "we've systematically removed God from our schools." He added, "Maybe we ought to let [God] in on the front end, and we wouldn't have to call him to show up when it's all said and done." These words are an insult to the victims, an embarrassment to sincere Christians, and a dangerous distraction from the national scourge of gun violence. Hateful and unchristian rhetoric like this has no place on a major television news network.

I have been patiently waiting for our society to "get around" to dealing with the root cause of most of the gun violence in our country. Enough already, without a mental health safety net nationwide, occurrences like Newtown, CT can only continue.

Gun control

The rights granted to corporations have become more powerful than those of the citizens of the Republic. Legislation is needed to affirm the supremacy of citizens in this country.

With continued killings in our schools by people suffering a mental illness, a preventative and proactive program needs to be implemented, especially in the high schools before another tragedy occurs.

The gun lobby cares more about access to weapons of mass murder than the lives of our children. It's time we amended the Constitution and put in place a nationwide ban on access to and ownership of the weapons of mass murder that have put our children in constant mortal danger.

we need term limits for the senate and house of representatives

The guns like the .223 rifle, 9mm Glock and Sig Saur used at recent Sandy Hook Massacre and Colorado Theater tragedies were legally purchased semi-automatic or automatic guns. These guns are made for combat - i.e., killing human beings, and in the case of Sandy Hook Elementary, kindergarten aged children. Without an easily-obtainable automatic or semi-automatic weapon, there is no way 18-20 innocent five year old children and 6 parents would have been brutally murdered in just a few short minutes yesterday. Not only do we need to petition our leaders for gun control and supporting mental services but we need to take an active part as citizens to end this violence. We need to petition our corporations, like Walmart and others to take accountability - to stop supplying these type of weapons and enabling this type of tragedy. I thought last night after crying my eyes out - As a mother of elementary school children, what *action* can I take in protest to this violence in addition to petitioning to change gun laws? (see Staci Sarkin's SignOn Petition "Gun Contol.Now" http://signon.org/sign/gun-control-now-1?source=s.fwd&r_by=2262167) I realized I can also petition and personally go to Walmart, or other local gun shop and legally purchase one of these hideous assault weapons and with my sledgehammer in hand destroy it right then and there in front of the store. I can also ask Walmart to remove and keep them off the shelves. If every non-violent citizen in this country did this, we could get rid of them ourselves, and send a message - enough.

Tired of a government that won't stand up to the NRA? Tell the President & the Congress that civilians should not be allowed to own military weapons. Civilians should not be able to purchase ammunition for military weapons. And tell them to make it a crime if negligence leads to your weapon being used to commit a crime.

HSBC has been busted for having dealt with Al Qieda and other terrorist groups. They have helped to launder BILLIONS of dollars for drug cartels and terrorist organizations. They were responsible for a wire transfer to one of the terrorists just DAYS before 9/11/01. Its hard to know we live in a world where people who commit such horrific acts as dealing with the scum of the earth can simply walk free with no punishment... But that's where you live, unless we do something about it. HSBC "Failed to monitor of 60 TRILLION DOLLARS of wire transfers and bank account activities". The executives for this bank have gotten off with a very harsh... No Punishment!!?!!?! The US says basically they are to big to fail, and that prosecuting them could affect their licensing in the US which would affect the entire financial market, essentially giving a completely free pass to bankers at the top to break any laws as many times as desired as they are "To Big To Fail OR Jail!!!!"