No! Our votes are not unlike petitions. How has that been working out. I hope that it would do some good but, I don't see it.

As an experienced activist, I can verify that Petitions DO help.
Showing up in person has even more of an impact.

I actually do see the real need to keep weapons living in a wilderness setting for reasons of protecting family and livestock from dangerous predators. I can see also that a bow and arrow may not always be adequate for these kinds of particular needs. I do remember that the old Winchester single shots used to bring home a lot of deer meat! If you are in the country and can't shoot something using a weapon with a single action, then you have no business with a gun!

I do remember that the old Winchester single shots used to bring home a lot of deer meat! If you are in the country and can't shoot something using a weapon with a single action, then you have no business with a gun!

I also feel however that gun permits need to be issued for any person owning a gun and that only after a person has taken a class and a written exam, undergone a skills test at a shooting range, a drug test, and a mental evaluation. Once a person passes those tests, then they can file with the police, who can then run a background check, insurance can be purchased, and then a photo ID can be issued, and that this ID needs to be presented for each gun purchased during any sale anywhere, and that all sales must be registered and put into a national database.

I DON'T see civilians keeping weapons that could kill inside of a city setting.
I feel that zones for people who live within a rural setting and registered rentals might be an idea for hunters who live outside these zones, either for using a gun while there or for gun-range storage areas for one that they themselves own where their names registry and weapons are kept on file, and ID showing the person's identity and permitting needs to be required to check the gun out or to have one in their home or on their person.

Our well-regulated militias now are our armed forces, so the reasons for keeping weaponry today is not the same as the time that it was written for. Even in the armed forces, the weapons are kept in lock-up and not issued until times of use.

Being armed doesn't guarantee safety, and increases one's chances of actually getting shot...
Ronald Reagen, James Brady, Fort Hood, the security officer at Douglas Stoneman. all were surrounded by people who were armed, but it didn't stop anything.

If you are armed when an officer shows up at such a situation, the police are looking for the person with the gun, and now you fit that description! Your own life may be put in even more danger.

Gun regulations may not totally stop these kinds of things, but statistics show that Hawaii, who has the strictest gun laws on US records, also has the fewest amounts of homicides, accidental deaths, and suicides, and compared with other countries. The USA is #1 for highest amounts of gun deaths.

For matters, of school security, the schools need an enclosed lobby with a second, interior door and security checkpoint, with a guard, a metal detector, and an emergency button to lock down the door like they have inside the federal buildings. That should (hopefully) stop any rogue visitor (or student) before getting inside.

No teachers with guns. No guns inside PERIOD.

Gun laws should include

1. No guns for convicted felons
2. No guns for the Mentally ill
3. Background checks at all points for all gun sales.
4. Longer mandatory waiting periods for all gun sales.
5. A capacity limit on the size magazines.
6. Banning the sale of anything that can turn a semiautomatic weapon into an automatic one
7. Strict penalties for unlicensed weapons.
8. Every gun owner should have to have proof of taking a gun safety course and take a gun-range test to prove that they know how to use it.
9. Gun owners should have liability insurance for every gun they own.

Right now everything is decided at the state level. Things can be accomplished at the state level, but that doesn't prevent a person from driving across a state line and buying a gun. Federal laws that prevent loopholes are needed.

Right now there exists something that is called a "Gun Show Loophole".
For those unfamiliar, the federal laws and some state laws are in place to require criminal background checks and detailed record-keeping relating to the purchase of firearms.

These laws typically apply only to licensed firearms dealers, however, so depending on where you live, secondary sales and gun sales between private parties, such as at gun shows, are often not covered by any law.

This means that any person with a criminal record or history of mental health illness could potentially show up at a gun show and purchase whatever gun he pleases, and this is why it is known as the "gun show loophole."

Some estimates suggest nearly 40 percent of gun transactions in the country occur through private party sales such as at gun shows, reports HuffPo. And more than three-fourths of U.S. states have no laws requiring background checks or documentation for private-party sales.

Have a gun store around the corner-no desire to go in