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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's get a million signatures on the White House petition for Gun Control
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-address-issue-gun-control-through-introduction-legislation-congress/2tgcXzQC"Immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress.
The goal of this petition is to force the Obama Administration to produce legislation that limits access to guns. While a national dialogue is critical, laws are the only means in which we can reduce the number of people murdered in gun related deaths.
Powerful lobbying groups allow the ownership of guns to reach beyond the Constitution's intended purpose of the right to bear arms. Therefore, Congress must act on what is stated law, and face the reality that access to firearms reaches beyond what the Second Amendment intends to achieve.
The signatures on this petition represent a collective demand for a bipartisan discussion resulting in a set of laws that regulates how a citizen obtains a gun."
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Let's get a million signatures on the White House petition for Gun Control (Original Post)
edhopper
Dec 2012
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1. Let's not and say we did.
Let's instead look at income equity, giving people health care, providing hope for the 99.
I am not on board this witch hunt.
edhopper
(33,589 posts)4. Thank you for your input
you can go away now.
Response to edhopper (Original post)
patrice This message was self-deleted by its author.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)3. Signed it yesterday. n/t
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)5. This one has over 2880 signatures:
"A gun in every classroom. Arm every teacher and principal to defend themselves and their students during an attack."
Dalai_1
(1,301 posts)6. An hour ago
I signed it..9000+ signatures at that time..now
almost 10,000 more!
Thank you for posting this!
edhopper
(33,589 posts)7. That's 90,000+
and in answer to post #5;
less than 3000 compared to almost 100,000, what's your point?
dickthegrouch
(3,175 posts)9. 159,308 signatures as of now!
I like the meme that Obama's not after your guns, WE are.