They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety will receive neither.

Every time a murder is committed, the media is quick to include a name and photo in the story. As a result, the public all learn the name of the murderer. He or she becomes notorious. Rather than killing just themselves out of loneliness and misery, they die knowing that they have effectively become celebrities. And worse yet, nobody remembers the victims except their immediate families and friends. This is backwards.

Many Americans claim that their Constitution gives them the right to own and openly carry firearms. Most states have struck down limitations on gun ownership, but not one single state has provided for a balanced level of legal responsibility that gun ownership entails.

The time is now to change our culture of violence and prevent the horrific massacres that are occurring with increasing frequency. The 2nd amendment is a relic of our revolutionary past and is no longer relevant in our modern society.

I am a disabled American who has a mental illness. I was fortunate enough to receive the proper care I needed to maintain my mental health. Thousands upon thousands of others have not been as fortunate as I have been, and this needs to be taken seriously. Now.

There are thousands of federal employees and military personnel who are paid with federal tax dollars but who are delinquent in reporting their income on annual federal tax returns and in paying their fair share of taxes. Many of them neglect to resolve their own tax situations and in setting the proper example as public servants. These people should not be deserving of paychecks that are funded by federal tax dollars if they are not willing to report and pay their fair share.

About unconstitutional and unecessary gun control

We are all financing the lavish lifestyles of the elites by paying an illegal fee on our everyday money.

It has been several recent incidents of horrific shootings in schools taking the lives of innocent children and adults. We did not have this issue before prayer was taken out of of schools.

It has been several recent incidents of horrific shootings in schools taking the lives of innocent children and adults. We did not have this issue before prayer was taken out of of schools.

I am outraged at the senseless killing of innocents , and by the killing machines in the hands of almost anyone these days. Nobody but law enforcement should have use of assault weapons.

Each year, it appears that bullying, and bullycide are becoming an epidemic amongst our children nationwide. It saddens my soul to hear about children taking their own lives as a result of being bullied. Their peers who are pushing them to this point are going along as they please, free to cause havoc to another child's life. Bullying should not be tolerated in schools, on social sites, and nowhere else. Our children should feel comfortable in school. It shouldn't be a place they dread going. I know people who have been affected by bullying, and I am affected indirectly every time I see or hear that a child has been tortured by his/her peers. In my opinion, it should be a crime punishable by law just as is rape, murder, drug dealing, or any other crime. Our nation should band together and stand against bullying of any kind. It would cut down on some of the other senseless crimes that have happened such as students who have been bullied at some point taking it out on other innocent victims.