Please vote against all new firearm legislation as this will only cause law abiding citizens to become criminals without the intent to commit a crime. States cannot legislate away criminals by passing laws that violate the Constitution of Vermont, the Constitution of the US, and the Bill of Rights.

Guns cost taxpayers millions for security,law enforcement, robberies,suicides, and homicides for investigation, prosecution and incarceration. The sales need to be taxed to help offset expenses.

Without infringing on the First Amendment, can all of the media agree to not publish the identities of the killers or interviews with their families? These home-grown terrorists probably want to be famous, no matter what it takes or what the human cost might be. It seems the quickest way to do this is to perform an unspeakably horrible act of slaughtering the innocents. The media do not publish the names of rape victims. Can this be extended to the names of mass murderers? Cut off the source of their energy and maybe they'll stop.

Our school employees should not work for a private company. School Food Service can be provided effectively without the expense of outside help.

The city of Lowell is considering starting a police body cam program and they want public input. We want to see a public meeting to address our demands: 1. IMPLEMENT THE BODY CAMERA TRIAL PROGRAM NOW! 2. FOR THE OFFICERS NOT TO BE ABLE TO TURN THE CAMERAS OFF AT WILL! 3. KEEP THE VIDEO LOCAL! SO THE PUBLIC MAY USE IT!

Let's make Louisville a place of refuge for Syrians displaced by violent confilict.

Require every piece of ammunition manufactured or imported into this country to have an identifying serial number. Each time that ammo is sold, the name of the buyer is registered to that number. If that ammo is involved in a crime, the last registered owner is held responsible. Gun owners can buy as much ammo as they wish; no restrictions. If a merchant "forgets" to register a buyer to a serial number, the merchant is the perpetrator. "Stolen Ammo" is no alibi.

Stop the city from requiring that yoga studios obtain the same costly PCE permit that giant franchised fitness centers are required to have. Yoga studios are not massage parlors nor are they fitnes studios!

Any society and/or economy based on growth is doomed to failure. The planet is not growing, so the human population and development cannot endlessly grow. A completely different economic and population paradigm, NOT based on growth, is essential to avoid the otherwise inevitable collapses.

The signers noted below urge Congress to pass a bill, rescinding any tax on existing Social Security benefits payable by any retiree who returns to work. This tax relief would provide a great stimulus to all retirees considering returning to the workforce while adding social security and medicare taxes, currently not being generated. If a Retiree receives $1,200 mo in SSI and could earn another $20,000 without the SSI being taxed, the new income of $20,000 would increase the SSI trust fund by $1,530.00 (7.65 X $20,000) a year. Currently, if the Retired Worker makes more than $13,000, they will pay $1.00 for every three dollars of SSI benefits received. Vested retirees deserve an opportunity to increase their income without any additional tax.