Please support gun owners in our time of dire need. Do no damage to the Second ammendment. It was there a long time before you. Not to hunt but to keep tyrannts from taking control. Alot like you’re trying to do now!

I don;t now who the president trhinks he is? I am not gpong to listen to hnim berate this country.All of us know why we are protected with the second ammend, for todays world. There is not a need for anymore gun control, most perticly gun restriction. All thrsr nut that commit thease act have broke the laws in place. People are killed with baseball bats everyday. What know more baseball. I ownws my first bbgun at age 8 a redrider. I owned my first 22 old bolt action when I was 16. And they have come and gone ever sence. This idiot is going to start i cicial war, that will make the last one look like a camping trip. our forefathers gave there lives wealth, so they put in place the conastution,and all that wen’t into. They were obviously much smarter than the modern day solutions.

All –

According to the FBI crime statistics, twice as many homicides have resulted from blunt objects (hammers, clubs, etc.) as rifles (source: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8).

In order to make our streets safer, I urge you all to look through your garages. Send a hammer to Dianne Feinstein with a note that you are doing your part to ensure the safety of your fellow American, since perpetrators of homicides prefer the hammer to the rifle by a two to one margin. Becides – nobody “needs” a large hammer, or a hammer with a black plastic handle. Let’s do this – together, we can make our streets – and garages – safer.

Senator Dianne Feinstein
331 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
TTY/TDD: (202) 224-2501

go after the real problem the revolving door that lets killers back on our streets, keeps gangs running free in our cities and then work on jobs, education, and the gang problem of the inner cities as its not a gun problem its a people and politician problem and the unwillingness to work on the real problem or to even face it truthfully! Its time we stop this left sided agenda and gun grabbing game that has show its self not to work time after time! As we have seen with the increases in gun ownership violent crime has dropped by over 50% in the last 20 years were in country that have banned gun as in privet ownership such as England there violent crime in the same time has risen almost by as much so lets honor the constitution and the bill of rights not destroy them as the left keeps trying to do!

I support the 2nd Amendment to the United States of America. The reason for the 2nd Amendment is for WE,THE PEOPLE to defend ourselves against………..and tyrrany
In order for a government to enslave its citizens it must first disarm them. B.HO has worked on this from day 1 of his first term. FAST and FURIOUS was part of that agenda.
If our government violate the constitution by slashing the 2nd Amendment; get ready for them to shredd the rest, starting with the 1st Amendment.

Leave us alone and stop the lies

I belive in the right to have weapons. I also fought for this country to protect what we have. I know from my time over seas that the countrys that try to ban firearms have more problems than they can handle. Just look at schotland yard up until about 8 years ago there officers were caring around billy clubs and the were getting there ass’s handed to them on a daily basis. If you want a current event look a syria they banned weapons and now look at the mess they are in. I don’t think that we need taxs or new gun laws i think that we need to enforce the laws that we already have in place more aggressivly. I also think that the people blaming it on video games are looking for a way to blame it on something other than the criminals that do the crimes. The fact of the matter is that law abiding citizens are the ones paying the price for what the criminals do. Look at who will suffer due to these new laws and taxs it will not be the people who have guns illegally it will be those of us who us use firearms to feed are familys not the ones doing drive bys. I don’t know about any of yall but i us my firearms to protect and to put food on the table cause i hunt and fish and i am living on retirement from the army and it is not that much so i know that i cannot afford 200 per assault rifle.

See Above Clarence Conner

There are a few problems, parents, background checks on everybody, and COMMON SENSE TESTS!

I’m sorry, I cannot, in good faith, support *THIS* petition. I am an avid gun owner and believe that the second amendment exists, not for us to own firearms, but so that we, the people, have the capability and capacity to overthrow the government should it no longer act in the best interests of the people. To that end, the private ownership of arms, both small arms and larger, was intended by the founding fathers.

However, this petition does exactly what the anti-gun side does. It scape-goats the tragedy that occurred by blaming something else: Video Games. A piece of plastic does not kill. Do not protect guns by scape-goating something else.

Do not defend the second amendment by attacking the first amendment.

THERE IS AN ADDAGE: AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE.
AS A SECURITY GUARD, MY PRESENCE TURNS SOME PEOPLE BACK, BUT SOME PERSONS WILL ONLY TURN BACK AT THE SIGHT OF THE SECURITY GUARD’S, OR POLICEMAN’S, “SYMBOL OF AUTHORITY” (OR AS SOME PEOPLE CALL IT “A GUN”). THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE. THOSE IN THE ABOVE NOTES, WHO DON’T WANT AN ARMED POLICE OR SECURITY OFFICER, SHOULD OPT AS A SECOND CHOICE FOR A ENTRY WAY WITH AN INTERCOM, & WITH BULLET PROOF GLASS ON BOTH DOORS, LOCK THE PERSON IN UNTIL A MONITOR OF THE ENTRY WAY CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT HE, OR SHE, WANTS INSIDE. CALL THE POLICE TO CHECK THE PERSON “TRAPPED” INSIDE THE ENTRYWAY, IF THE PERSON LOOKS, OR SOUNDS, SUSPICIOUS. THIS WILL PROTECT THE POLICE AS THEY ARRIVE, AS WELL AS THE OCCUPANTS. JEWELRY STORES & GUN SHOPS HAVE USED THIS TECHNIQUE FOR YEARS. IT IS A ONE-TIME EXPENDITURE. “OPEN DOOR” POLICIES ARE A HAZARD TO EVERYONE INSIDE. NOTE: IF THE BUILDING IS TO GUARD AGAINST A PERSON WITH AN EXPLOSIVE, THE ENTRY WAY SHOULD BE DESIGNED WITH A BLOW AWAY ROOF, TO MINIMIZE DAMAGE, AND PUT THE ENTRY WAY A DISTANCE FROM THE MAIN PART OF THE BUILDING. THERE IS NOTHING GUARANTEEING THAT THIS IS A “NUT CASE” (LIKE IN NEWTOWN, CT) AND NOT TERRORISM. YOU HAVE TO COVER BOTH THESE DAYS.

I went to the petition site, registered, and found that I COULD NOT sign the petition. Is this because it had already been responded to? If so, is the quick response a tactic used to prevent the number of signatures on the petition from increasing? It’s obvious, from the response that the administration has no interest whatsoever in listening to reason and accepting the fact that no ‘assault weapons ban’ is going to prevent violent rampages. Violence is perpetrated by the person wielding the weapon, not the weapon itself. The data shows conclusively that the Clinton era ban had no impact yet the current administration and the media would have us believe that somehow reinstating such a ban would make a difference? Nonsense!

Sorry, the link to sign to repatriate the Garands and 1911’s is:

http://wh.gov/nPHc

Thanks again

I hope our country dosnt make the huge mistake of trying to ban our guns then the only people with guns will be the bad ones.

GUNS KNOT THE PROBLEM! A SO CALLED CHRISTIAN NATION THAT HAS KICKED GOD OUT OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES, THAT SERVE GOD WITH LIPS, WHILE THEIR HEARTS ARE FAR FROM HIM. THATS THE PROBLEM IN AS FEW WORDS AS POSSIBLE.

May the victims of Adam Lanza rest in peace.

If guns are to dangerous should not the President be the shining example and disarm his security forces first?

Anti-gun legislation is the same as bringing paper to a gun fight.

Mr. President,

Just as quick as you may act to pass a gun control law in response to the killing of 20 innocent school children last week, please be just as quick to pass an abortion control law in response to the killing of 56,000,000 innocent babies since 1973.

Contact me at any time if you need further rationale.

Dib Waldrip

NECESSITY IS THE PLEA FOR EVERY INFRINGEMENT OF HUMAN FREEDOM
IT IS THE ARGUMENT OF TYRANTS
AND THE CREED OF SLAVES
(FROM ONE OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS)

POLITICIANS LIKE TO TELL US HOW TO LIVE, SO DO PROGRESSIVES AND KNOW IT ALL’S PUT MOST ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN REELECTIONS, $$$$$ AND POWER.

It’s a poor carpenter who blames his tools.
This foolishness of mistaking the finger for the moon has really gone on long enough, and now it is taking the lives of our children.
When will you face the fact that the gun is not the problem? They are the symptom, telling you that the PROBLEM is getting worse.
Why was this child, and the others who have committed similar crimes, so troubled?
Why are our children suddenly having “anti-depressants” forced on them in school? Why are they so fat and sick? Follow the money.
Why can’t we discipline our children? Child abuse laws. Follow the money. You can smell the lawyers from here.
Why can’t teachers, parents, and mental health workers talk to each other? Privacy laws. Follow the money. Find the lobbyists.
What allows children to abuse and sue their parents and teachers? Child protection laws. Follow the money. It leads to politicians and corporations, insurance companies, “health providers”, lawyers, lobbyists, and a lot of people who think they know what’s right for other people, but refuse to judge their own behavior.
“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Although it is found in the Bible, it is an ethic that is even more ancient than that, and you may notice, it doesn’t contain the word, “God”. It works for atheists, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and Taoists alike. Even Wiccans.
It doesn’t have to go any farther than that. We don’t need a global government. Just a little common sense.
Guns? You have a population gone so insane that the children are grabbing whatever they can find to make a statement loud enough to be heard,and you’re blaming it on the guns?
You are foolish and lost. You’ve lost your heart and common sense. You have my pity. I hope you can find forgiveness.

I just received the email from GunsAmerica Blog that the petition numbers were not very good. On 12/17/2012, I went there, signed/sealed/delivered and a page came that said I would receive an email to use as verification so my response would be accepted. Guess what?!! THAT EMAIL NEVER CAME! They must not want anyone who is pro-guns to enter a comment.

AS A WINCHESTER PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEER IN 1968 (YEAR OF THE BIG LAW) TO 1973, I TALKED TO CONGRESSMEN ABOUT ALL LAWS. MY POINT WAS VERY SHORT AND SINCERE. THAT WAS THAT GUNS WERE NOT “HIGH TECH”. BAN THEM, AND DO ANY LEGISLATION AGAINST THEM (AS OPPOSED TO PROSECUTING AND EXECUTING KILLERS) AND I, OR SOMEBODY ELSE, CAN GIVE YOU, OR CRIMINALS, ALL THE GUNS YOU WANT. IT ONLY TAKES AN ACCOMPLISHED MACHINIST, A LATHE AND A MILLER, AND ASSOCIATED TOOLING, AND THE KNOWLEDGE I POSSESS, TO DO IT. HOW DO YOU LEGISLATE THAT? I OFTEN WONDERED: WHY DOESN’T THE CRIMINAL WORLD START THEIR OWN GUN FACTORY? THAT’S WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AS WE PUT MORE PRESSURE ON THE GUN COMPANIES AS WE KNOW THEM NOW. WE EVEN TAUGHT THE AFGHANS HOW TO DO IT IN CAVES, WHEN WE WERE HELPING THEM AGAINST THE RUSSIANS. P.S. I HAVE BEEN A N.R.A. MEMBER SINCE 1966, LIFE MEMBER SINCE 1974. WE SHOULD HAVE 40 MILLION MEMBERS BY NOW, NOT JUST 4 MILLION. I PROPOSE A GRADUATED SCALE OF COST PER AGE (LIKE INSURANCE PREMIUMS) TO GET MORE LIFE MEMBERS IN OUR RANKS, AND HAVE A BIGGER BASE OF VOTERS. I HOPE THE N.R.A. MEMBERS SUGGEST THIS IN THEIR CORRESPONDENCE.

As law enforcement officers we must first remember that we are private citizens of the United States of America! We swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, it’s Amendments and the Bill of Rights!! As Americans we should study the Federalist Papers, as the content clearly explains the thoughts behind the aforementioned from the authors themselves. It must be impressed upon us all that the 2nd Amendment is all that protects and ensures the remaining Amendments!! We shall not infringe upon that right! Violence is a social problem that we must continue to seriously work to stop by all means except infringement of our, and the citizens we swear to protect, RIGHTS!! Erosion of those rights is never the answer and only propagates and encourages tyranny!! May the blood of war stain our hands so our children forever know peace!!!!

Heres some common sense. DEMAND THE SECURITY FOOTAGE OF ALL SHOOTINGS! How can you allow your govt to create legislation based off of hearsay? I dont care what the news says.
Introduce Legislation that says: ALL security footage, unaltered, unedited, should be available to the public, if laws resulting from it are to be created.

If the security footage cannot be released due to pending investigation, no legislation can be passed, as a result of the same pending legislation.

Beat them at their own fake ass game.

Sorry about the spelling a didn’t correct it before I posted.

Anyway I just wanted to say a couple of things here. I am a gun owner and I am very responsable with them. I have trigger locks on them and also lock them up. How about putting security at schools to check students when they come into the schools and also watching constantly around the school grounds so that it would be nearly impossible for crazy freeks to make it into any schools. One example is my girlfriend is from the Phillipines and she was a school teacher there for 14 years and she said no one could ever make into any school there in the phillipines beacuse the have high fences around all school facilities and if you want to go into visit the school or talk to someone there, you must have valid Identification, and have a very valid reason to be entering the school premesis. I am wondering if they can do that being a pretty poor country, why here in America we cannot do something like that, since we are much welthier here than in the Phillipines? Good question? I think it is.

Amen to all post.

I am so mad with our so called NRA! Where are they at at in our greatest need now? They even closed there Face book page. I have lost all respect that I had for them. I have been a member for over 20yrs, But not any more. All there good at is taking your money!!

RAYMOND WHITE DO YOU KNOW WHAT QUALIFIES A FIREARM AS AN ASSULT WEAPON BE CAREFUL WHAT YOUR WILLING TO GIVEAWAY ….ANY FIREARM WITH A DETACHABLE MAGAZINE AND HIGH CAPACITY ? WELL WHATS HIGH CAPACITY 10 ROUNDS 12 ROUNDS THERE GOES YOUR FAVORITE SQUIRREL OR PLINKING 22LR, YOUR GLOCK THINK IN BIGGER TERMS AND NOW YOUR THINKING ON LINE WITH THE ANTI GUN MOVEMENT YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER THE 80S HUGH? LETS KEEP WHAT WE HAVE AND THANK RUGER FOR GIVING IN JUST A LITTLE NOW WE HAVE GUN LOCKS!

Everyone wont’s to blame guns. But real blame belongs to the United States Government. Look at the games
kids play on TV, and you take praying out of school. Never teach thou shell not kill.
The Government wont’s your guns so it can have total control over you.

James Moody
Splendora, TX

People will always have guns. It’s not the gun that kills people it’s the person holding it. Safety regulations do work.

Guns do not kill people so if you take our guns away only the outlaws will have guns. I have them to protect myself and family. People who are a few fries shot of a happy meal should not have weapons and as far as assualt weapons they should be only for the well qualified owners. Maybe we have to arm the teachers so this will not happen anymore

We have a constitutional right to bare arms that no man has the right to take away.

Thank you

you really think making a school a day time prison with security guards bullet proof glass security doors that lock kids in is the answer! i think not. i know times have changed but there are bigger problems and this tradgic shooting takes away from some of the real issues that plague this country. you can not stop crazy unbalanced thinking. look at presciption drugs. that and doctors kill more people yearly than any shooting.look at good old fashion war.men and women where once children and when they die in the service of the goverment its seems that know one has a problem with that . he or she becomes a hero. add up this year how many have died fighting overseas . for what , freedom .sorry no. for greed. do you really want to see armed soldiers on the steet corners of schools . mental instability how do you secure that ? you can’t. the media, now there’s a real weapon of mental destruction. they thrive on dirt and public misdirection. my heart goes out to the families of those victims killed. i am pro gun

The constitution allos for defense of the nation, Not your personal hoard of guns Quit trying to re-write the constitrution. The sick FOOLSwho arethe tea party are the same scum who forced christianity into the schools with a COMMIE scare in the 1950s. Want to help the nation? stop forced religion. The country was not and never had any intention of being founded on guns. The United States of America was founded to ESCAPE the TYRANNY of the church of england and its false god.

why are we letting them think that they can change the constitution they are still trying to fix the leak buy painting the inside walls of the basement rather then fixing the real problem which is on the outside

Signing one of those “White House Petitions” seems a bit silly, especially when a bit further down the list was a petition to, “Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016”. So, any idiot can create one of those petitions. Having said that, every little bit helps even if it may seem silly at first. So, go sign the petition anyway but most importantly, DON’T STOP THERE!!!

Folks, write your local editor. Hammer your local, state and federal representatives phone lines. Email. Fax. Voice your opinion as often as you can, however you can. In politics, the squeakiest wheel gets the grease and the lib-progressive-serial-whiners learned that lesson looooooooooooong ago. Please don’t surrender due to apathy.

Think!!!What if one of the people in the school had been armed and stopped the maniac at the door. He or she would have been prosecuted for bringing a gun to school. We have to make certain concessions for our schools to be safe. How Lanza got the weapons is not the big question, what made him do it is, you can see by his photo that he wasn’t too tightly wrapped. Gun control is not the answer, mind control isn’t either. This debate is going to make people realise we have a problem in this country, I have 5 grandkids 3 who are about the same age as the children in the school, I would do anything to protect them, and you would too!

Legal people that carry firearms are not are problem in America it people that are criminals that are the problem they will always be if you take guns away they will use something else to kill or hurt so don’t take rights from good law abiding gun owners because that will only make thing worse

Ok so Obama wants to put gun control in place n take the very thing that law abiding citizens use to protect them selves from who ever wants to take them by force so say in our 2nd amendment . The gun control act will force the law abiding citizen to lay down there arm n allow the unlawful abiding citizens to come in to your house and take over as they please . So I ask this to our government if you place a banned on guns and force the American people to lay down our arms will you force our milartey , secret service , personal body gards, or the police to do the same ? If not I will not lay down my arms n hope the American people do the same

Respectfully Cody stansbury

How come non of our political leaders are talking about all of the very violent video games out there. Oh I know they are protected by the Free speech amendment. Including all of the foul language that is on them. May be if we would get back to moral living it would help.

I believe that if we started to enforce existing laws instead of adding new ones it would be a big step in reaching the desired goal of everyone. More laws just make it tougher if not impossible for law abiding citizens to enjoy their sport. Who are we deceiving by spewing out information that by limiting private citizens from owning firearms the criminal element would also be deprived. We talk about how many private firearms there are but ignore the fact that the largest stockpile of weapons are owned by the government (police/military). These institutions always seem to be misplacing their weapons and they keep turning up in the hands of the wrong element.As long as firearms exist anywhere on the planet the bad guys will have easy access. I think that we ban coccaine and heroine but they are very common in all of the US with easy access. The only people that will be disarmed with more laws for firearms will be the honest law abiding citizens of our country. Don’t we trust those people or does our government think we are untrust worthy. Maybe the next thing to be eliminated is our right to vote because we are not trusted as a whole to make the right decision.

First, and foremost I am like so many others very sadden by the lost of so many innocent lives; Second I feel sorry for the gunman’s family because the one’s that are left will have have to live with and through the tragic events that their family member decided to create! They are the ones that will have to wonder what and if anything could have been done to at least try an prevent such a thing; They are one’s left in which the whole world is expecting some logical answer from; last but not least what will more gun laws do for legal gun owners? What about those who have illegal guns? Legal gun owners must go through a background check; There is a waiting period before you can actually bring your firearm into your house; Legal gun owners must now take training classes to learn how to shoot their weapons responsibly; Legal gun owners must register their firearms with their local police departments etc; Illegal gunowners don’t have a foid card; Illegal gun owners don’t undergo a background check(9 out 10 they have a long criminal histories); Illegal gun owners don’t have to paricipate in the waiting period nor do they go to gun training classes; Nor do they register their firearms with their local police departments; Most importantly, they don’t go into a legally operated gun shop to purchase their firearms; Illegal gun owners are not breaking into your house to sit down and drink a cup of coffee; or ask your mother or sister out on a date with a gun to their head raping them; Illegal gun owners are not going to ask you can they have a ride in your car, while they carjacking you at gun point; Nor are illegal gun owners going to ask you nicely while the are commiting strong arm robbery on you! The issue of more control will do nothing for those indivduals that have illegal firearms! It will put more laws into place for legal gun owners! Concerning the events that unfolded in Newtown; I can’t help but wonder if the mother had her guns locked in a secure gun safe! It appears even if she did her son was aware of where each firearm was being kept in the home! And what I am about to say I know many will probably not agree but I will write it anyway: This is not meant to shame the mother in anyway but; If you knew or was aware that your child had some sort of problem why introduce him to guns in the first place, there are so many other positive activities that she could have tried introducing him to(Not Saying That She Didn’t); Secondly; This youngman appeared to have some type of hatered toward his mother, to shoot your own mother in the head four times is not an accident;taking time to destroy your computer; taking the time to put on a bullet proof vest; making the choice to get into your mother’s car and drive to the school for the sole purpose of taking others lives without a second thought; This person made a decision to take the lives of his mother, as well as the lives of innocent children and his own life; We as a society may never know the answer to all the why’s, But I truly believe that responsible gun owners should not be held responsible for someone elses reckless decison.

Shane December 18, 2012 at 4:07 am
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TROOPS 4 SAFE SCHOOLS <<<<< Let's Make It Happen!

I'm really pleased that some folks like the idea of hiring former service men and women for school security. I'm especially happy that quite a few gun owners and Second Amendment supporters are willing to pay a small ammunition tax to support a program that could…

1– greatly improve school security;
2– provide jobs for returning servicemen and women; and
3– demonstrate we are compassionate citizens who are committed to the strengthening of school security.

I haven't heard anyone on the outside promoting this idea. I haven't found any similar discussions online. So maybe it's up to US to organize and present a proposal to the public and elected officials. We can do that! We can talk it out, think it through, write a proposal, gather signatures from other gun owners, and then mail it to anyone who might read it.

Does it make sense to create a semi-private online forum where we can develop the idea further before trying to take it to people who might listen?

My thinking is that we need to focus this discussion and try to figure out a few more details about how this might work. We need a place to talk without being distracted by naysayers and detractors.

Please email if you have any interest in participating. If you want me to start a private forum where we can meet and discuss, please let me know, and I will reply to your email with the forum address (yet to be set up). Better yet, if you are familiar with creating and running discussion forums, maybe you would want to do this for us. I have no experience running forums, but, if need be, I'll learn.

I look forward to hearing from you. How great it would feel to get off of the sidelines and try to do something for the our troops, our young people, and the Second Amendment!

– Shane
[email protected]

Do you honestly believe, deep in your own mind, that if Adam Lanza had not had a gun that he would not have killed anyone? He was sick with blood lust. He would have killed no matter what weapons he had to use! And if he had used an explosive no one in the Sandy Hook school would have survived!
Here is a law the will work! When one family member kills someone then the his or her family is punished, especially when the weapons used are registered to the mother! Parents MUST BE HELD responsible for the actions of their children! No matter how much whining liberal politicians scream that such a thing will not work! Do not leave gun control up to the government! It is your responsibly! Leave it up to the liberals and they will take away our guns. Then America is a free for all, up for grabs to any idiot who owns an illegal gun. And there will be many many hundreds of thousands of those roaming the streets. When the law abiding man has no gun to defend himself or his family from the murderer who has an illegal gun, the murderer will always win.
American voters have placed the responsibility of child raising in the hands of the government. So how does the government teach your child not to play with guns? It takes the guns away from all other Americans. So why not take away the cars of the drunk drives who run down innocent people? The car did it!
Pot smoking engineers on trains and dope sniffing captains of ships murder thousands of people, to say nothing of the irreversible damage done to the environment by their stupidity. So next the liberals ban trains and ships. That mean old train just ran down that school bus full of children and should be punished!
As soon as we clean up the mess at the railroad tracks then a bus driver slaughters another bus full of school children by being drunk or drugged out of his or her head while driving. The drugs and the alcohol did it. The bus driver is innocent. He had a fight with his wife the night before and he was so upset that day. He just had to get drunk and take the children away from fifty families to unwind.
If you will watch the reality shows on your television and take a close look at what kind of weapons are being used by thieves and robbers of convenience stores you will see that a gun is used least of all, in only one in ten robberies. The rest of these holdups are done with pipes, knives, hammers, bats, screwdrivers and even snakes! So now the liberals must come together and devise a plan to ban all pipes, knives, hammers, bats, screwdrivers and snakes from being privately owned.
How can the grief of the families of lost loved ones at Sandy Hook ever be consoled? What can any of us do or say to help them with this mind bending and heart rending hole in their lives, left there by a murderer who decided to take his pound of flesh from innocent babies
Remember, it was the bullets that actually killed, not the gun. So next we punish the ammunition!
So how do you punish the killer who kills himself at the scene of the crime? Of course we can’t punish him, but we can sure punish anyone who emulates him. Elect people into office who pass laws to punish evil and not give it sanctuary in the “system.” If Adam Lanza would have lived and been caught he would never have seen a day in jail. He had to be studied and analyzed. He was insane.
Ban guns and people will use knives, poison gas, explosives, hammers, bats and anything else they can use to bash the brains out of someone else. So ban everything that kills and then begin to ban rocks and sticks for they are also lethal weapons just as capable of taking a life as any gun.
It is the private ownership of guns that keeps a nations leaders, law enforcement agencies and general public respectful of others. Guns do not make people like each other but they will make people leave each other alone. Take away the guns and the American house hold will be overrun with knife and pipe wielding gangs murdering at will.
Stop protecting evil, sheltering insanity, and allowing liberal politicians to punish inanimate objects for crime! Say no to banning firearms in the United States!

Al the killings of innocent people by whatever weapon they use is chilling and quite unacceptable. We need to beefup security at schools and where crowds usually are gathered. Gun bans are total failures and not a good idea. Gun control hits law abiding citizens more than anyone, which makes these crimes easier for the bad guy to commit. Take Washington, DC for an example with very high gun control and very high murders per capita.
The answer is to recruit law abiding citizens of very good background to volunteer for very extensive training to deal with these threats in not only schools to protect our children but other places as needed and to receive proper instruction and licensing to handle firearms and use them to remove the potential threat quickly.
These terrorists are cowards and not brave when there might be a danger for them to carry out their mission and usually take their lives because they are cowards to face justice. A lot of volunteers could be found and help to reduce this problem dramatically. John

I truely feel sorry for those who have lost all there loved ones on that day and any other day that such an incodence has taken place! Just remember one thing people kill people not guns! Who will protect americans on the day we face attack and the goverment has taken our guns away? Just remember were are military is today and the next day how long do you think it will take the military to get here? As the military is not big enough to protect every american and neither is the police force!

We have a law banning guns from schools all it has done is disarm educators from protecting innocent children. If an educator throws their body against a door to hold a person with a gun out dont you think that if that educator had a gun they would have used it to protect those children whom they dedicate their lives to? As an educator I can tell you any good educator would hope that they would never have to use a gun to protect but would much rather have one and not need it, than not have one and need it.
To you folks who are willing to pay extra taxes to pay for an armed guard to guard schools are well intended, but unrealistic to several basic facts. 1. educators armed and trained will be a whole lot more effective in stopping an attack than one or two guys running around with guns on doing the same- simply one person can only be in one place at the same time and again educators who spend all their time teaching- nuturing- mentoring students all day long will have a greater passion for protecting those children than someone who is not vested in the children as much. Multiple people who may or may not be armed causes the attacker great nervousness because they dont know who will come at them from where. 2. the cost of paying armed guards for every school would be enormous and totally unrealistic considering the huge debt that our country is in, many cities, are and some school systems. the National debt is equvivalent to approx $52,000 for every man, woman and child in the USA.
As mentioned in multiple places in this blog that guns dont kill people, people kill people, and guns are by far not the most deadly weapon out there. the Automobile is far more deadly. More people are killed in one week in traffic accidents in the United States than all the mass shootings combined (in the USA)outside of war. when you look at all fatalities of US citizens caused by war starting at the Revolutionary war to the present (including any occupations that wasnt declared an official war) and compare it to the traffic fatalities from 1900 to the present you will see that there is somewhere around twice as many traffic fatalities as combat and combat related fatalities. So why are so many so intent on trying to destroy our second amendment right under the guise of how deadly the gun is. If they are truly concerned about reducing deaths enforcing laws that would reduce traffic accidents is where their focus should be.
The old adage of “when you outlaw guns then only outlaw will have guns” the 2nd amendment was created so that the people could stop tyranny if it should try to occur. Crime will always be less around law abiding gun holding citizens than citizens that dont have guns. When you look at the areas where guns have been banned city officials have armed guards and crime rates are up.
I cannot help but truly believe the politicians that are working for gun ban laws, are wanting more power and to subject the citizens to their whims, that or they are just plain stupid and misled.
As a citizen of the USA I should have the right to purchase any gun that is accessible to the military. this is the right of the 2nd amendment so that citizens of the USA can rise up against tyranny if it should present and try to subject US citizens to it. In saying this with this right comes great responsiblity to not misuse that right to infringe upon the right of any other law abiding citizen, and if any one should misue this right the consequences should be swift, severe and made known to the public. Part of our problem with mass killings is the media coverage and slow court processess that keep a perpetuator in limbo and attorneys perverting our laws. A fair and quick trial means that justice will be served. I know many will cry “fighting violence with violence is not the answer”
Well when a murderer is executed that is called justice and when it is done methodically and quickly and televised, others who may think there is glory in being a whacko with a gun may think twice. Yes taking a life is a horrible thing- but those who go out and do it intentionaly should be subjected to the old adage “let the punishment fit the crime”. bleeding hearts are unrealistic in their expectations and saying “killing one doesnt bring any one back” No it doesnt but it does act as a deterrent to others who may consider killing someone. Equity and justice is the only thing that can long maintain order amongs good human beings.
Someday when the Savior returns and rules the world, then we can live by a more perfect law, but until then not meting out justices with equity and swiftly only deteriorates civilization.

It is very tragic what happen and it should not. Not the gun’s fault but the person as always. if a law needs to passed then do it smart . Like NO chambered weapon in a school zone period.And hold a person accountable and then some. But what is going on about banning is not the answer Where was the outrage , the tears when our Border Agent was killed , and over 180 plus Mexicans citizens killed by guns that US government personnel ran to known drugs cartel members under this president’s watch . Did he visit them or even give one simple I am sorry , we will get those responsible , even shed one single tear to any of the 180 plus family members..Or the 4 US security personnel and a US AMBASSADOR killed Some family members said he could not even look some them in the eyes . And still no answers [truth] just lies and In all before mentioned events not one single tear . I always wondered why he has more actors visit him than heads of state, or people that could make a positive change , they must have been giving him acting lessons. Like that Noble Peace that was GIVEN to him i guess now he wants an Oscar GIVEN to him . ALL VERY SAD INDEED.

The constitution say that we have the right to bear arms. Let’s keep it.

We need to arm the teachers and all the other staff in the schools. We need to do away with gun free zones so that the criminals do not have easy prey, which will eliminate many of the shootings because the people are cowards that do this.

Please don’t take a social mental health issue and turn it in to a gun issue. There are many many more important and pertinent issues to focus on. Like employment (higher employment rates mean less crime done by otherwise good people out of desperation) and social mental health which is of course affected by stress. Stress = the culprit that causes society to malfunction. Deal with the major stresses our nation and world are facing/fighting and watch how it irons itself out. “He who governs best governs least.”

I may as well add my comment. To start, I am 71 years of age and was raised in the South (Alabama). Firearms were a way of life for me. Target shooting and hunting. I had my first firearm at the age of 6. My father and uncles taught me the safety features of my 22 cal, 5 shot, clip fed. Winchester bolt action. I was also taught how to responsibly handle and use a gun. In that day and time (1947) parents were considered not fit to raise a child if discipline wasn’t provided to his child when needed. My father didn’t hesitate to adjust my attitude when it came to proper handling and use of a firearm. I have owned firearms for 55 years and not once have I misused it. But let a mentally deranged person go a rampage and the knee jerk reaction is to penalize all of the legal gun owners. I have an AR-15 that I bought in Maryland. I had to fill out the paperwork for a federal background check and Maryland paperwork for local investigation and then had to wait 10 days before I could actually take custody of the AR-15. I did not purchase this firearm to kill anyone. I bought it because I wanted it and I could finally afford one. Mine will be used to shoot at inanimate targets. I have 20 round clips and consider them a convenience since I want have to pause after 3 seconds to load a clip again. The rhetoric in regards to clip size is another knee jerk reaction.
The Government is attempting to further restrict firearm availability to legal law abiding citizens. The focus should be directed to finding out what caused the total disrespect for human life that these mental cases have. I personally believe it can be attributed to removal of prayer from school, explicit violent killing video games, TV, Movies, and lack of discipline in the USA. The moral values of the country have been going down hill and has almost reached the bottom.

I served 26 years in the U S Navy doing my part in protecting our constitution (as millions of current and previous veterans have done) and I believe the constitution should be left intact, especially the 2nd amendment. Our forefathers were more intelligent than our current crop of politicians. They knew that technology would advance and newer firearms would be available for the US citizen. This is the reason the particular firearm type isn’t spelled out. The 2nd amendment is intended to provide the legally armed American citizenry with the ability to protect himself/herself, family, property, and If necessary to band together with other legal gun owners to protect our country from domestic and foreign enemies. I for one intend to keep my firearms and use them responsibly.

Mr president: you do what you think is best we as a hold we cant stop you .
But know as a hold we are watching an you all need our vote next time who ever it may be.
The tragedy is bad by no means put dont lay it on every ones feet that owns
a gun that in itself is going out an a way from what this country was build on from year one to today
guns have an all ways been part of our right .

Cars kill far more people every year than guns but I do not hear anyone crying for reform on car control! I feel for every family but I am not going to mix two sepreat issues! This guy killed his mother took her guns & killed people so he committed a crime to commit more crime. How can we as a country be against gun violence but yet we killed over a million Iraqis in that war! I don’t hear anyone crying about the needless loss of life committed by a countries govt in the name of war! STOP being biased!!! Life, every life should be protected at any & all cost- so until all countries give up their arms I sure as hell am not giving up mine!

Why did the mother of that 20 year old, whats his name, let her son have access to those firearms! Those weapons should have been secured, hidden and locked up tight! And this incident would have never happened. This goes back to the mother being Irresponsible!!!

To punish the many for the acts of a few sounds like something from the Roman Empire. I would like to think that we have progressed in our civilization beyond thinking of that nature. I am a gun owner as was my father and his father, and his father.etc. I hunt, go kerplunking, skeet and trap shoot. I have books on guns as I also collect war rifles. Does having these make me dangerous? People I socialize with also have interests in guns, movies, playstation games, football,baseball,hockey,horses,hunting and fishing. We are the average person with many likes and dislikes. Are we to be punished because we also may like guns? Keeping guns out of the wrong hands should be your concern. Keeping them out of the hands of honest, law abiding AMERICANS is not the answer.

What they need to change is gun safe zone they make it easy for nuts go in and shoot people.

People kill people, not guns…gov’t needs to do something about all the drugs coming into this country. Lots of rat poison would do a whole lot of house cleaning.

Mother Against Drunk Drivers don’t want people to stop driving or drinking. They want people to be responsible when they drive and when they drink. They want the PEOPLE made responsible for their actions. Let’s stop making the guns responsible and start making the people who wronly use them responsible.

this shooting is tragic and i feel for all those affected, but lets think about this . a school is a weapon free zone (zero tolerance) for guns. a theater is a gun free zone a church is a gun free zone.all these places have had a mad person come in with a gun and start shooting, but you never hear this happen at a police department. do you? why not? get rid of these sign train teachers not all just some of them that don’t mind using a gun give them a fighting chance not only would this change the outcome but i think it would slow down or stop these action, remember the 60s or 70s i can remember when the parking lot at my high school during deer season had gun racks with guns hanging in them in the hunters pickups ready to go hunting after school and we never had this to happen,and now back to the theater in Denver i understand that some of the victims were x military men and if these guys had had a service 1911 colt you could bet there training would took over that would have been a different situation if you can trust them with serving our country i think you can trust them in theater with a conceal carry but i know our government they are going to try to take away our rights they punish everyone but the guilty with spiteful anti American policies and lets not let these elected officials use this tragic event as a diversion to sneak and screw all of us with the phis cal cliff

Dear Mr. President: It is my belief that guns did not make Adam Lanza take so many very innocent lives in Newtown. Guns are a means of eating meat–for us, and entertainment–target shooting. Never in our born lives would we ever even DREAM of shooting a human. Please take yourself out of the politics of this and use your tears to cry with America over this.

Please do not take our guns.

Sincerely,
Yvonne Oliver

I agree with you guys 100% but please do not let kids under 18 or 21 to attend shooting ranges no matter if with paarents or any other adults, don’t let kids to be familiar with deadly weapons, don’t let them have any phisical contact with firearms, this stupid mother also caused this tragedy and also paid the price for this. Those stupid American movies is a different story, but that’s what our youngones are feeding day and night and everywhere

I haven’t read all of the above blogs, so I may be repeating one. Anyway, here goes. Obama is going to do what he wants. No amount of signitures on a petition will deter him. All we are doing by signing this is giving him another 25000 easily identified names and faces to send his minions after.

Yes, I saw this before…it is a great way to look at the problem…the problem of not wanting to really address the problem.

Banning guns is not the answer. It’s like banning cars because of a car wreck, the car didn’t drive itself into the wreck, a person is responsible.

You can’t legislate crazy people

In deference to Bob Costas we live in a culture that is becomming more and more an antigun culture. If it were not so then there would be no problem training and arming teachers. But sadly our antigun culture will not go there. Teachers and law enforcement officers share responsibilities and dangers. It is only reasonable that they be aforded some of the same training as officers, such as, intensive close quarters firearms training and the right to defend themselves. Then they would be better able to defend the children entrusted to their care. I would call for a requirement for teacher certification responsible firearms training along with full encouragement and legal right to bear arms in thier place of duty. Is this war? If war then we do not sit idly by and be slaughtered. If you want to call it war then it is not law abiding 1st graders, teachers, and those that believe in upholding the constitution that initiated it. We must defend ourselves and our children. Passing more laws that “infringe” on constitutional rights is not the answer. If one part of the constitution can be so infringed the the entire guiding document is null and void because any part or all can be negated and any time. Teachers mus adopt the public protection responsibility mindset required to be a leo. If they can’t do that then they are not qualified to be teachers.
Infringement on any

If MY people who are called by MY name will humble themselves, repent and turn from their wicked ways I will hear them and heal their land!

ditto

What happened to those teachers and children was a tragedy we will never forget. And these situations will be repeated in the future as long as the media is allowed to make the perpetrators out as glorified products of our society. No gun control law will correct the mental health of those inflicted. Additional institution protection will help those in school, churches, shopping malls or where ever people congregate, but, what laws or protection installation has ever stopped the mentally deranged from committing their horrendous crimes. If firearms are banned these people will use any devise available to perform their horrendous deeds. The Government needs to attack the problem not the devices used to perform these tragedies. Lets hope,we as voters can get the right agencies involved to at least get on the right track to help eliminate these tragedies. Our Government has to find out a way to get over their nitpicking and finger pointing ways and start acting like the representatives the American voters put in office to represent them. They have to represent all our residents and not just their party.

something like this always brings the wingnuts out. Those of us that enjoy gun sports need to be proactive. Offer up solutions. Don’t just rail about 2nd ammendent rights.
Several problems surfaced as a result of that massacre. !. The school recognized the need for restricted access and security at the entrance. But did not have the funds to secure access sufficiently. Solution; provide funds and expertise for schools to fortify their entrences sufficienty to with stand an attempted force entry for a sufficient time for law enforcement to arrive. Granted this is a passive defence, but schools are “weak” fortrices now. Make them strong enough to hold out an assaiiant until law enforcement arrives. They are the ones to confront the assailant.
Assualt weapons. There will ge a clammer for banning. That won’t happen but there may be a stupid compromise law passed, like last time. Instead lets offer up the following.2. Assault weapons are to be kept locked unless in use. The owner of the gun must possess the key at all times. Large capacity magazines are permitted only on gun ranges. For hunting use no more than an 8 round magazine can be used.
If these two simple policies had been in force those children would be alive.

The more insight we get, the more we learn that there is a greatly ignored relationship between the use of prescription drugs for behavior modification and for poorly measured and more likely contrived mental/social disorders. Seldom will the media ever identify that these drugs are destroying our young people and are contributing to these perverse actions. I am also a retired principal from the public school system, and I have never seen a positive outcome from medication–they do not improve academically and too many become severely out of touch. They contribute to extreme actions to include suicide, violence, and substance abuse. I also believe they contribute to sociopathic and addictive personalities. I bet we will never learn whether or not this “psycho” has a history of medication. The media would rather use this as another incident to restrict law abiding people from protecting themselves and to create another polarizing issue. Watch Medical, Inc, a new documentary about the drug industry, if you can get it. These horrifying incidents are what you get when you educate too many children in an overcrowded fishbowl, medicate them as newborns and continue to medicate them lined up at the nurse’s desk. In today’s world, you cannot protect them enough, because there is just too much to protect them from.

I was an elected constable here in Ky.I am now disabled and can not do much to protect my family.have had my conciled and carry permit for many years.we did not have to worry about a person that had their weapons permit.they have been checked for felonies and breaking the law.we have a good law enforcement in our city county and state.but sometimes you only have a second to react.and they cant get to you in time.so you do what you have to.so my weapons mean a lot to me.and my wife knows how to protect her self.now she might scare me. If just one teacher had a weapon and knew how to use it this whole story might have turned out different.GOD BLESS THE CHILDREN AND THE PARENTS!!!!!

Yeah guys, enough is enough on the “gun ban and gun laws BS”, It is such a tragity, the killings of all those inocent kids and adults!, same as Colorado, same as Columbine, they all are devistating!. Folks it’s not the guns that kill it’s the psyco’s behind the trigger!, People that qualify, pass background, have regular jobs and love either collecting or target shooting, DO NOT GO OUT AND KILL PEOPLE. This kid in Newtown unfortunatly had a mental problem, as did the idiot in Colorado, they stole legaly owned weapons and did the deeds, just as gang bangers do!, they don’t buy guns legally either..
It’s so very terrible this happened again, but people wake up, Obahma wake up man!, if parents are asking for help with their disturbed child, HELP THEM!, don’t hurt the “law abiding citizen”, stop the BS BANS & LAWS

Don is on track.
Most of the comments; whether intelligent, ill-considered, right or wrong about what they express, are off the subject at hand. The matter before us is this: Will you sign the petition?
If you will not sign for reasons intrinsic to yourself and your world view, please leave them and unrelated observations about society, out of the discussion for now. If the reasons have to do with the petition, then let us productively discuss how to improve it. Anything else does not immediately contribute to our mutual purpose, i.e., a petition presented with 25,000 signatures, which we share by implication through the action of logging-on.
I offer these critical observations:
1) The petition is much too long
2) It is not quotable
3) It is nauseatingly obsequious in tone
Our Adversary-in-Chief cares nothing for the Constitution, the rule of Law, or individual rights. Personal defense rests on the idea of individual initiative. Does a collectivist embrace that concept? Finally, why do we end our supplication with an appeal to fairness? It’s as if a thief broke into our warehouse and we react as if he’s simply wandered in, provide him directions, and neglect to mention that he’s on our property. Yes, yes, he is powerful and has unseen allies, but by analogy, it is confrontational to inform a trespasser that he has strayed?
Finally, we must address the greater audience. If we hope win over the uninformed our points better be sharply brief, memorable, and appeal to common sense. The weakness of all utopian schemes is the suspension of belief in the real world and a preference for the idealized brighter world to come. It’s sustainable only as long as the consequences are remote and ultimately when someone else picks up the tab.
When you choose to desperately place your body in front of a bullet, the consequences are usually severe and frequently final. Even if every teacher were heroically willing do so, everyone knows that is not effective.
The liberals will then propose professional protection. The conflict will shape up around this and our adversaries will seek to exploit the sentiment for safer and better schools to gain more votes and power. This is a political struggle and this group seems a bit inept. The Libertarian Party just released a very effective response on the issue. May I suggest we learn from it? Its title follows: Halt the Massacre of Innocent Children by Ending Prohibition on Self-Defense in Schools

many responses here with hopes and thoughts of doing the right thing as a nation , my 2 cents , let us all for a moment put your self in one of those parents shoes , we cannot begin to understand how they feel or what is the next step to rebuild (if possible) the emptyness that has a hold on them. I have kids , one a cop , one a criminal justice major soon to work for the FBI (maybe) . I could not imagine life with out them. and the paths they have chosen or will put them in harms way everyday . And for who ? us all. yes they carry guns , yes I’m an avid gun owner and hunter .yes I was in the military, yes have lost friends and family to war. are guns the real problem ? or our fear of offending someone in our culture that thier kid needs help and NOW!! you will find the history is there on the people that committ such acts . How do we identify early on of these type of kids becoming adults and doing such things. And getting them help , we all know them in our towns and cities . we just don’t know when and if they will snap some day . Mental health is key , education is key. parenting is key , I don’t have a solution , but I’m convinced its not guns as the problem , its the guy using it , my thoughts are with those that have lost so much during this time of year for forgiving and giving , Christmas will never be the same for them, you and I will move on , they will never. Mental health !!!! not gun control

Although I am signing this petition, I must agree with those above that the video games were to blame. I play Dead Space, Call of Duty, Call of Duty:Modern Warfare and various other first person shooters and war simulations. Just as the weapons used in this atrocity were not to blame, so are video games a tool, only for entertainment. If video games played a role, it is that it only increased a break from reality that already existed. They did not initiate the break. Just because a sequence in Modern Warfare 2 called for the mass murder of civilians in an airport does not mean that I have any iota of intention of attempting to carry out such a thing in real life for the same reason that most of us do: IT IS WRONG. For the vast majority of people, nothing justifies the mass murder of innocent people, children topping the list of innocents. No weapon, no game, no law will change that, just as it won’t make someone incapable of feeling empathy toward another human being suddenly have it.

In place of the word “tragedy”, can we please use the word “atrocity”? Like 9/11, this was not some sad accident. It was a vile, deliberate act of a coward and bully. We don’t see these atrocites attempted at police stations, or other places where the potential victims are armed. I refuse to bestow any sort of dignity on these sub-humans.

Where did the assault rifle come from? He took the two pistols from his mother, which makes me wonder why she thought she needed that kind of power for self protection. It’s a good thing he killed himself. He would have never gone to trial because he was insane. Something made him snap and we’ll never know what it was. Also, if mom owned the guns…. where did the extended clips come from? Where did the assault rifle come from? And don’t blame the video games. This kid was already a loner…no friends and stayed in his room most of the time. The typical profile of a person who would do this sort of thing.

I stand with all who support our 2nd Amendment.

I believe laws are simply an “umbrella” that “generally” shield us from “most” of what can happen. But when the wind changes direction unexpectedly, the umbrella can’t provide complete protection so your going to get wet. A bigger umbrella will simply impede your vision and a new crop of UN-intended consequences will be allowed to rise.

I believe the current laws are “generally” correct however, I believe tweaking WITHIN them is necessary. I don’t find this issue an all-or-nothing debate — the posts above all indicate we truly would lay our lives down for the liberties and convictions we hold dear, but only a few have touched on possible solutions. We all are painfully aware of money constraints in our communities (also an unfortunate issue being delt with today) so generally, a full time police / armed protection to fall within current no-weapons-on-school-property legislation is really not a viable option – but going without has sickeningly proven what an UN-intended consequence truly can be.

I want my children safe as they spend most of their waking hours focused with our teachers in our community schools ( translation is: “I can’t personally keep them safe when they are under someone else’s care”) and as we all know by now, windows and locks only keep out “honest” people; so what could be a possible solution to my rambling — I find it viable to think in terms of what the airlines have instituted in that pilots have “access” to a firearm (I did not say toting a firearm) and also take a lesson from the military using a two-key access to confirm release of the weapon (missiles, sensitive documents ect…) … maybe even incorporate a panic button networked to the schools head office / Police that has to be depressed FIRST before the safe will accept the two-keys to be turned) Train one, maybe two in the school personnel (its highly likely there IS someone on staff that has had military training) responsible for defense. (As I write, I have a hard time thinking it has to come to this – and even what I am suggesting here give me a lump in my throat, but I don’t believe (nor could I handle) another confirmation of a soft-target shooting to finally invoke some kind of on-site defense).

It is my understanding the principal, obviously UN-armed, tried to dis-arm him. I know this suggestion of being armed absolutely grates against the mindset of a teacher but yet look how they rallied and indeed laid down their lives unarmed to protect all in their care.

This is a geographic issue. First responders can only respond after-the-fact. That is not a fault of theirs, simply a limitation to the conditions as they unfold and when they are summoned. They provide an invaluable service, but simply are not front line. Time is of the essence — at this time, my thoughts are even in a slim chance for the designated personnel on site to acquire the firearm is better than the unbelievably heroic measures the principal and other took to provide a human shield for the children.

The schools practice for all sorts of drills including an intruder but we have to now provide the keepers of our children the wherewithal for this threat. ( I have a hard time thinking we need to “arm” an instructional institute and I don’t take this lightly as “UN-intended consequences” are not exempt here either, but with a well-thought-out plan (my offering above is only concept however a good thought-provoking start WITHIN current gun laws) and multi-level security that absolutely secures the firearm but allows reasonable access in extreme conditions is an unfortunate direction on our horizon.

Obviously, I have stayed focused on a school scenario but I would be fine for other programs to be put in place. The county I live in does not have a concealed carry or firearm training course – (DNR does) I would suggest it acceptable to have the police initially hold these courses to “put a name to a face”. As someone stated above, we are law-abiding so this should not be an issue. This also allows the officers to “get a feel” for who has purchased a firearm and state of mind. (I understand recent events he tried to buy and was denied, so that part worked) but still got to his mothers firearms — which makes me wonder (I have not heard) if they were secured in a safe or not. This kind of local profiling is better and within the current laws than making alterations or stricter bans on them. Again, time is of the essence.

We as a pro-2nd Amendment community should help think out and offer solutions on how to weed out the issues rather than just take a belligerent stance, ultimately letting someone else make the decision. If you like the 2nd Amendment, you obviously like control, so take control and make attempts to offer reasonable suggestions that strengthen our community — once you let issues digress to legal language, you have given up your control.

Strongly consider signing the petition and offer sound solutions for the good of all! We owe the recently departed and the ones still with us, at the very least this much.

Dee

What schools need are 2 -fulltime school police officers. Create those jobs for those that need it.Keep the kids safe and put officers in schools permanently!!!!

ENOUGH GUN LAWS NOW.

Remember Guns do not kill people, people kill people. The questions Congress, Senate and you Mr. President should be asking is why are so maney young people becomeing violent?

It is so many remarks about our president not caring or being a Muslim (which is a religious freedom in this country) and other disrespectful remarks that will do more harm than good. There is far too much radical behavior and thinking amongst the gun toting groups of this country. I hear them at the gun shows and see the conspiracy theory videos and anti-Obama literature and our presidents face on targets. Do you really think this puts us gun owners in a positive light or furthers our cause? Absolutely not. It makes us look as crazy as the people who are out their shooting into crowds and our children in schools.
A responsible gun owner is one who respects the president and this country. It is the radicals and all that conspiracy crap, Obama hate and ignornace that permeates the gun shows that gives us all a bad name and makes us look as crazy as those who are committing such horrendous crimes. It is you people I fear when I go to buy my guns… not the people I can’t see.
Wake up people! It is you and your radical thinking that instill fear into us good citizens wanting to protect ourselves. It is you people handing out conspiracy videos and literature and selling our nations presidents face on targets or displaying him in minstrel or Muslim form/attire that helps provoke and seed dangerous thoughts into these young people who are entering these gun shows. Even at 18 or 21 a mind can be very impressionable.
We need more responsible people participating in these shows and less ‘so called’ freedoms to promote radical and violent thinking that conjures up reminders of Hitler/Nazi Ku Klux Klan mentalities.
I have stood in line with all those ‘good old boys’ talking about how they don’t need to prepare or store food. “We only need our guns so we can take it from those who stored it.” You are the people I fear as I go and buy my guns and supplies. I am preparing myself to protect myself and my family from radical thinking people like you.
Support your president. You can change his mind much quicker by having someone monitor these sites and eliminate all these ignorant and radical rantings.

This child neeeded help and many people knew it now it is too late. He did not buy those guns he stole them. I would have died trying to protect those children gun or no gun. What ever happened to those good old westerns and good entertainment insted of the crap on TV now?

This is a no win situation for law abiding gun owners. People are angry, rightfully so, by this senseless act. The shooter is dead, the gun owner is dead, so there is a need by the masses (especially the press) to assess blame. The only thing left to which blame can be assed is the gun! The inanimate object that has now become a symbol for the root of all evil in America. We, as law abiding gun owners, are now guilty by our association with guns! We can argue until we are all blue in the face about our violent society, video games, loss of faith and the list goes on, for a reason to make sense of what occurred. But those arguments will never stand up to the faces of dead children, the crocodile tears of Obama, the liberal media, and a general public sentiment that guns are bad, they can kill, and people who own them (legally) are all out there in the lunatic fringe.

Obama, like him or not, is smart and sly. If the US signs the NATO treaty then the US will be at the mercy of what other countries dictate with regards to gun ownership and control, without congressional approval! So no worries, no fight in congress, just sign the document and in the dark of night are rights disappear. With public sentiment squarely behind gun ban advocates there is little anyone can do except wait and see how far the bans go. Will owners be grandfathered, or will they have to turn in their arms. Will pistols also be banned? The fallout from this one 30 minute act of violence is about to shape the American landscape, with respect to gun control (banishment), for generations to come. I am not advocating we as legal law abiding gun owners simply give up, yes we need to fight to maintain our rights, but I am not optimistic about our chances given the climate that currently exists. The press is against us, the general population is against us, parents are against us, and once supportive legislators will be hard pressed to support us, less they be labeled insensitive toward the deaths of children. I fear this uphill battle may just be too steep a slope to overcome. On December 14, 2012 America lost two of its most precious possessions, innocent young children, and our freedoms.

Leave my right to purchase and own guns alone lawmakers and law breakers.

More gun laws is not the answer needed to prevent these terrible incidents. Better help for the mentally handicapped and control of the violent computer games may help. Guns do not kill people. People kill people.
People have been killing people since the begining of time. You will not be able to control every implement that
can be used for killing.

I know most of you will not agree with me but here it is anyway….New laws against guns and mag. capacity or anything else similar will not stop a moron who is hell bent on killing masses of people….Law abiding gun owners will be the casualties of this war…..a ball bat in the hand of a twenty year old man wielding at his peak strength years could have killed the same twenty children….Taking away the tool of their trade will not be the solution for this problem….THERE IS NO ONE OR TWO SOLUTIONS FOR THIS NEW NORM TYPE OF CRIME….We now have a new society or culture in the USA that will have to be changed starting at each persons home before this can be turned around….People as a majority must participate for this to take place….Live for GOD,,mothers stay home and raise your children and quit letting them raise themselves or the schools raise them for you,,take the nasty filth off the televisions,,Fathers start being men,,moms and dads quit getting divorces at the drop of a hat,,NEED I GO ON!!….NO because 80% of you already despise what I have said so far….We did not get where we are today over nite….It will take years to turn back what we have done and become….It will never happen at all unless the majority of people participate….Casualties of this war is what law abiding gun owners will be….There will be no stopping the movement that is about to take place against gun owners in the months ahead….I love my country and I value my freedom….I believe it is my heritage and a privilege to own a gun….But face it….The America we all remember is over now it will never be the same again….Read your bible….Pray…..Watch for the signs….Even so Amen….

Obama is too Anti-gun. He’s not going to help us. Him being Anti-gun was the number 1 reason I didn’t vote for him.

Lets get real people out in the streets to collect real signatures. Bet we could collect millions in support of the 2nd Amendment.. Lets send those to Washington, and out petition the anti gun people 10-1…

This kid was very sick, the system failed him as he clearly should have been in a treatment facility and not walking the streets of America. He was a clear example of evil and how it is around us every day. I’ve never seen a gun hurt anyone but I’ve seen a lot of bad stopped by the judicious use of a firearm.

Bryan,
I have to agree 100%. Blame the mother, for teaching a mentally unstable kid to shoot, and not having her guns locked up in the first place. Blame the kid for wanting to be a coward and to hurt defenseless, innocent little children. Look at Illinois, the POTUS’ home state!!! They just lifted the gun ban law in their state because of how bad violent crimes were there. The WORST in the country!!
I also like the idea of us putting our money where our mouth is. Local ammo/gun tax to hire add’l police officers to protect our lower grade schools, not just our high schools.

What if this guy walked in with a knife would we need to have new knife laws or if he drove his car through the building would we need to revamp our driving license regulations. The fact is that there are far to many mentally. Unstable people in this world and no matter what laws or government intrusion cant stop that my heart is broken for those mother’s and father’s. That lost thier children the husband’s. And wives. And everyone else effected. As a father myself all i can call do is teach that life has meaning. And to respect others. I have no idea how to change the world but a jnee jerk reaction is not the rite thing to do.

tell diana f out in calf. guns did not kill those kids it was the goof on the other end

I grieve for the lost loved ones in Connecticut. The media seems set on pushing gun control buttons. They should focus on the real problem. Taking the Bible from schools has produced decades of some troubled young & older adults. Without the Bible to guide them some can’t cope with life and grow up lost, not knowing the love of God or Family. We have children who Murder their Parents and Classmates. Many Video Games kids play are about Killing and Death. Some seem de-sensitized to death. Killing seems like a Video Game in their Mind. It’s like the Devil won them over. It’s time to put the Bible back in Schools. Those who object can Home School. We are a Christian Nation. We’ve just been Run Over by Non Christians. We don’t need Gun Control, We Need the Bible to teach our Children Right and Wrong & Love. Statistics show more children die from bicycle, swimming, & car accidents than gun shootings. Jack The Ripper didn’t use a gun, neither did Jeffery Dahmer and a Straight Razor can be fatal when applied to ones throat. Adults over 50 remember when the Bible was taken from schools. Tragic events have taken place since. Let’s send a message to Washington that we Christian Americans demand the Bible be put back in our Schools. Guns are not the Real Problem, Lack of God in our Schools and the Devil working on young minds are the Real Problems.

If I were a teacher I would like the option of having a firearm to defend myself and my students. Put yourself in the teacher’s shoes, if you can imagine the scenario. You would at least have a chance to make a difference for the better.

We don’t take cars from everyone, when a drunk driver kills innocent people.

That person should not have been able to access any gun ,Sad.

I agree with the assault weapons ban. But I also agree with 2nd admenment of the right to bear arms. I don’t think our forefathers were thinking of assault weapons when this was written. Most of these people who bitch about keeping their assault guns are the same ones who wanna play G.I. Joe. They never served a day in the service and have no idea what kind of sound a bullet makes when it hits flesh and not zombie targets. I feel at this time we have more to fear from extreme newscasters who’s only purpose is to sensationalize the news no matter what the cost.

why would anyone want to believe that fake teard speach that obama mr. monkey dung gave to the american people and the parents of the 20 dead childeren / he said at the end of his speach may god bless all of you he does not believe in our god / he has done his level best to take our god out of our everyday life and worst of all out of our schools / obama is a radical crooked muslim trying to tear this country down and make it a scumbag muslim filthy country / look at the muslim countries the people all sit around on the streets all day like a bunch of micack monkeys waiting to be told what to do by someone like mr. monkey dung obama / guns do not kill people people kill people / if any of the american people believe anything that obama tells them they are worse off in the head then adam lanza you need your heads examined and quick / obama is again trying to buy votes for his illegal 3rd term in office that he is working on while all of us sleep at night do not think for one minute that he is not going for a third term / obama is the end result and squirt from a lude sex act committed tall in the trees in africa by a large limb rat / he is a muslim and hates the american people young or old / if he disarms this country he will take us over without fireing a shot just like he wants / he is a modern day hitler and george sorros is the radical crook behind him pulling his strings / sorros is obamas puppett master and has been since the beginning / obama is not for the american people / let him get your guns people and all of you will die in hell with no chance to fight back / do you think for one minute that the muslim scumbag people in the united states care about what happened to those 20 innocent childeren that died at that school truth is they are probly real upset that an american killed those childeren and not a muslim / people better wake up / obama is a fake piece of monkey dung / obama just told the american people that god called all of those innocent childeren home he does not believe in god another one of his lies to gain votes for his third crooked term / everyone better sleep with one eye open as long as mr. monkey dung calls himself our president / he is not my damn president i did not vote for the idiot / i pray everynight that i wake up in the morning and that obama has died overnight of a massive heart attack before he takes this country plumb to hell like he is doing right now / you let him take god out of your everyday lifes and our country / god is going to send us all to hell before breakfast he is pissed

I feel so Sorry for the families that lost there children in all the school shootings, But the bottom line is this. More Gun Laws only make it easier for those people who want to cause Harm to others easier. Its been proven in other places that Strong Gun Laws just make it easier for the Mentailly Distrubed and Thugs to do what they want. And Stronger Gun Laws only makes it Harder for Law Abiding People Like Myself to Defend Myself and My Family. It was said on local news about a year ago, That there was not enough Police to protect everyone. So what does that mean, It means that some of us will have to protect our selves. Think about it, how many times does the police show up in time to stop someone from harming you and or your family ???

This is a sad situation not caused by guns but by a societal failure to provide adequate mental health services. Guns can’t do anything by themselves. Our society is almost completely without basic morality, not to be confused with religion, but simple responsibility and respect for others. These attributes are in short supply at the moment.
Mrs. Lanza had four or five guns which are being described as an extensive gun collection. She is further described as a paranoid prepper.
The best course of action is to think and then act; not react and then think.

Dear Mr. President,

Tragedy is a time when a President has to let go of the politics and cry with the people. But as the tears dry and the anger kicks in, the politics usually come back, and that is what is happening in the case of the tragedy of Adam Lanza. Already the media is suggesting that gun control could somehow have prevented the murder of the 27 innocents in Newtown Connecticut, and as you almost definitely already know, this is not the truth. Gun control may have actually been partially responsible for the tragedy, because all of the potential protectors in that school were disarmed by state law. Adam Lanza did not care what laws he was breaking on December 14th, 2012, and another law would not have gotten in his way. The real question is what made this disturbed young man into a murderer of children, and that certainly was not the availability of guns.

We are not the gun lobby Mr. President. We are America’s law abiding gun owners, and we would have all died with Victoria Soto and Dawn Hochsprung in defending the children with only our bodies on December 14th. Every single one of us would have obeyed the Connecticut law that mandated no guns on school property and left our guns at home. Gun owners are among the most law abiding of Americans, Mr. President, and we deserve your consideration to step aside from the politics and support the truth about this tragedy, not the political agenda put forth by the media and those who would compromise our 2nd Amendment rights.

Adam Lanza did use guns to kill his victims, but a gun is just an inert piece of plastic and steel. Without the addition of human will and a willingness to kill, a gun is no different than any other potentially dangerous object. In this time of tragedy there is no point making this letter a statistical analysis, because you already know the statistics Mr. President, and you know that guns are used to defend the lives of innocents far more than they are used to take the lives of innocents. Cars, plastic bags and swimming pools are all responsible for exponentially more accidental deaths of children every year than guns, yet none of them are blamed for the deaths. These killings of 27 people in Connecticut were not accidents, but Adam Lanza would have used whatever means possible to commit this crime. He tried to buy a gun legally and couldn’t, so he stole the guns from his mother. Another law in his way would not have stopped the bloodshed, because Adam Lanza, like all criminals, didn’t care what laws got in his way. He was clearly going to do this one way or the other.

Guns or not, Adam Lanza had to be willing to walk into that school and start shooting like he did, as if he were in a video game. But where is the outrage for the violent video games that Adam Lanza played? Was he a fan of “The Walking Dead,” a TV show that is teaching our young people that they may have to someday kill their neighbors when they turn into zombies? On Youtube it is possible to watch helmet cams from soldiers in Afghanistan, firing at a living and breathing enemy. If you were to weigh the factors of what led Adam Lanza to feel justified in killing schoolchildren on December 14th, how much of that blame do you think would really fall on the availability of inert pieces of plastic and steel?

Nobody expects newly re-elected President Barack Obama to stand up and call for a law forbidding the states to ban lawful carry of a firearm on school campuses. And certainly nobody expects you to call for an end to violence in the movies, on television and in video games when so much of your support came from the entertainment industry. But during the debates you had the courage to stand up and admit that “assault weapons” were not the problem with street crime. You also didn’t claim to have an answer to the inexpensive handguns in the hands of those street criminals, but you probably do know the answer Mr. President. It is to get more cheap handguns into the hands of inner city law abiding Americans. More guns in the hands of law abiding citizens always equals less crime, and that will be as true on school campuses as it is every other place it has been tried.

Nobody knows what would have happened at that school had a few of the teachers been armed on December 14th. Guns don’t always prevent evil from winning. At best, guns in the hands of the good girls and guys only give us a shot at beating evil, and evil is a determined enemy. In a perfect world we would all live without violence or tragedy of any kind, but this is not a perfect world. There will be violence, and there will be tragedy, no matter what laws we try to use to prevent it. As America’s law abiding gun owners, we ask you to stand with us, Mr. President, and just speak the truth about this awful thing. Another gun law or laws wouldn’t have stopped Adam Lanza. It is an insult to the victims and to the heroines who gave their lives trying to stop Adam Lanza to suggest that any one thing could have prevented this terrible tragedy. All we ask is that you step aside from the politics and the pandering and speak the truth Mr. President. The media frenzy is well underway, and America’s law abiding gun owners don’t deserve the blame for Adam Lanza. You don’t need to get re-elected again Mr. President. Please support us in this time of tragedy.

1. The very act of petitioning to avoid “politicization” is, in fact, a political act. That’s the logic bomb for this petition.

2. In the minds of many, organized gun owners are characterized by being “against”. Against registration. Against closing the Gun Show Loophole. Against assault weapons and large magazine bans. So the question in my mind is, “What is the collective of organized gun owners FOR?”

Isn’t it time for the gun owners, perhaps led by the NRA, to get out in front of this issue? Isn’t it time to lead on the issue of protecting rights AND making America safer? Gun owners don’t have to stay in the narrow lane of ownership and the 2nd Amendment (which, by the way, isn’t much of an issue any more). No one answer is going to do anything — and it takes a pretty narrow perspective to assume that increasing gun ownership is going result in fewer Americans injured or dead from firearms.

Lead. Offer America a holistic solution.

Dear Mr. President,
My heart was broken when I was informed of the shooting, murdereous rampage that took place, and yes we have experienced far to many of similar situations in our past. Gun control should take place at home. Responsible gun owners should keep their firearms locked up or on their persons, and can not be responsible for events that occur if their firearms are stolen. People that commit such terrible crimes do not care about laws. They simply want to destroy lives. I strongly urge you to not buckle to the folks that want to rip the 2 nd Amendment from our constitution, but work with people to come up with ways to recognize when disturbe people need help, whether it be therapy, detained, imprisonment, etc.. I find it extremly difficult to believe that there was not warning signs from the killer before the shooting took place. If those weapons were locked up in a gun safe, he would not have had access to them. My two cents worth.

First, I think, whether or not he really is legal to be president. Get the docs. and papers and lets go to town getting this Islamic president out of office. Didn’t he force (threaten) some people that were in a position to expose him with threats of ???
I believe our Lord would have given us all Barett .50’s with the new s.a.w. repacement.

AMEN! The only realistic approach to stopping the current Fad of shooting up our schools is to eliminate the prohibitions which are in place that have made them into a “Target Rich Enmvironment”! Any responsable adult who is trustworthy enough to be left unsupervised with my children has my permission and encouragement to train themself to defend themselves and my children by whatever means necessary. Had this been an option to the staff of our schools over the past 40 years we would have nothing to discuss now!

Guns do not cause crime! Kennesaw, Georgia, USA, has celebrated 33+ years of zero Murder/Violent crime Since enacting a law stipulating that households must have at least one firearm! How many murders have occurred in Chicago, Illinois or New York City in the last year alone where guns are heavily restricted if not practically banned?

Louis McCain nailed it. BO and the Clintons would like nothing more than to disarm America, so they can get to the real business of rounding up all those irritating Constitutional patriots that stand in his way. Yes, I would be proud to sign.

We need to keep our bill of rights in tact.

I ONLY HOPE WE CAN STOP THE LIBERALS OF THIS COUNTRY FROM TAKING OUR 2ND. AMENDMENT RIGHTS AWAY? OBAMA & HIS “CLAN” OF MOBSTERS WILL TRY ANYTHING TO TAKE AWAY WHAT LITTLE RIGHTS WE HAVE LEFT? IF ONLY ONE TEACHER WOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO CARRY THOSE CHILDREN COULD BE ALIVE TODAY? O,BAMA WILL USE THE DEATH OF THESE INNOSCENT CHILDREN TO ADVANCE HIS SOCIALISMN CAUSE AGAINST THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS! NOT HIS BUT YOU & I ??

People kill people with cars each day, and nobody is trying to ban cars. So way are the left wingers trying to ban my gun????

BO conspired to get this anti-gun campaign going ever since he has been in office – what makes you think he had nothing to do with this?

It is a very sad thing that happened to those childern & adults .But as a gun owner I have to agree that another gun law would not have stopped Adam Lanza from doing what he did. As a law bibing citicen and gun owner , I beleive that we as gun owners should not have to give up any of our guns because of those people who do use them to kill. You can kill with bows and arrows , kitchens knives, baseball bats, a sharp stick etc.etc.etc.. So should the goverment ban all of those things to from all of us too. I don’t think so . The second ammendment says WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BARE ARMS, The goverment sends us to war and to fight for our country and put our lives on the line , and when and if we make it back home , the Goverment want to take our guns away from us law bideing citicens , thats just not right , we have not done anything wrong, So why punish us because other ill people kill others. MR. Preisdent look at reallity guns don,t kill people , people kill people , and they can us just about anything to do too. It just so happened that a gun is what Adam Lanza chose to use, ones that he stoled from his own mother.

NO MORE GUN FREE ZONES!

Video games? really?! He didn’t go into the school armed with a joystick! He used an assault rifle. I am sure when the principle tried to over power him had he had a joystick, knife, or some other weapon she would have had a better chance. I respect one’s right to own a gun, but its time to renew the assault rifle ban.

How about a $0.02 per center-fire round tax with proceeds required to go directly toward increased school security? Let’s put our pennies where are loud mouths are. Most (all) state governments are NOT going to arm teachers. But we CAN install double security doors with blast resistant glass, electronic locks, and employ well trained security guards (former Soldiers and Marines would be great). This will cost money. How much is the Second Amendment worth? We talk a lot about “fighting” for our gun rights – “cold dead hands” and all of that – how about actually trying to sound like sane grownups and offer solutions that might – but only might – save the Second Amendment? This event is Connecticut is changing people’s minds quickly. Crazy BS and insulting the twice-elected President of the United States is NOT going to help. Let’s 1- demonstrate compassion; 2– offer serious proactive ideas to at least try to prevent future tragedies.

It’s a waste of time BO doesn’t give a damn for our Constitution or our Bill of Rights. But I’m signing anyway, only GOD knows what is worming around his brain!