Comments on: Congressional Lookup

By: amelia brown

amelia brown — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:18:42 +0000

I am old and not good at all with computer. are you reading this right now. If so my facebook page is amelia and I have the song posted there and I can also e-mail it to anyone. xavierb414@gmail.com. This gun violance has to stop.

By: Philip Goiran

Philip Goiran — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:59:40 +0000

The second amendment was written in a very different world than the one we live in today. I wonder what the founding fathers would think of assault weapons in hands of children. Certainly this isn’t what they had in mind. The NRA has used this amendment to defend their right to sell weapons and promote the use of firearms with reckless abandon. They haven’t made our world safer. They’ve made it more deadly.

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:27:58 +0000

Congress should enact a ban on all assault weapons and the ban on high-capacity magazines. Start working for a safe America free from gun violence now and stop working for the NRA and gun manufacturers.

By: DENISE MATLOCK

DENISE MATLOCK — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:01:29 +0000

Please support the recommendations of the President and Vice President on the Gun Safety Regulations. You are aware of all the gun violence in Nebraska.

By: Carmen Torres

Carmen Torres — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:22:38 +0000

I back President Obama’s proposal for gun control. We need to do this now.

By: Cynthia Collins Walker

Cynthia Collins Walker — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:44:32 +0000

We have reached a point in this great Nation of the United States of America where the lawful use of guns has been badly breached. In the year 2013 we see men, women and children gunned down ruthlessly in our schools and streets because there is not a series of laws currently employed or actively instituted in Congress that is working to save the lives of American people. When will the blood being being shed be enough? It is my ardent belief that every person interested in purchasing a firearm for any reason MUST undergo a background check. That includes all uniformed police officers to receive annual or biannual background checks to ensure ALL people in this great Nation that they are fit to serve to KEEP THE PEACE. If it is found that any individual has a history of violence, imprisonment, crimes or mental illness that the individual in question should NOT be licensed to carry a firearm. All firearms must be licensed. If firearms are easy to acquire via the internet or through other means that are difficult to monitor the FBI and the CIA, Homeland Security and other agencies directly engaged in operations regarding cyber security must be continuously and without fail on high alert for any and all threats to harm other people to ensure the safety of all American people and for that matter the WORLD. The FBI, CIA and all institutions dedicated to cyber security must FIND every potential perpetrator of senseless crimes BEFORE they take place. We are successfully averting problems on the WORLD stage regarding Al Queada, now we must concentrate more thoroughly on what is happening within the border of this great Nation, the Nation of the United States of America. Thank you…Cynthia Walker, Laurel, Maryland USA

By: Stephanie Stender

Stephanie Stender — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:00:32 +0000

This is madness. They have gone too far. Assault rifles. Body armor piercing bullets. The 2nd amendment? What-cowards hiding behind a false shield never intended to harm citizens but to protect them. Tools of the NRA gun industry. USA biggest gun in the world.

By: Laura Griffith

Laura Griffith — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:52:23 +0000

I will be checking to see that my representatives fully support and vote for all components of gun control that the White House is putting forth.

By: Adil Mehta

Adil Mehta — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:20:39 +0000

it is high time that some commonsense prevails and the govenrment does something really effective to help reduce gun violence. No other civilized Western country
has such lax laws regarding the purchase and possession of guns. Most Americans don’t need to have guns to protect themselves. Yes, criminals will always find a way to obtain weapons, but many crimes committed by guns are by people who were not prior criminals and found it very easy to buy a gun or get hold of one.
Providing better mental health is a farce. The vast majority of people who can obtain guns easily and then subsequently use them against others, are not those who would be found so mentally incompetent that they could be treated in institutions or be restricted from possessing any guns.
Reducing or stopping gun violence is by taking many steps at the same time, not by a few meaningless individual steps to make some people feel good thaat they are doing something.
Here are some steps to consider:
1) Cigarette companies are sued when people who smoke die from using cigarettes. Maybe gun manufacturers could be sued when their weapon is used to kill
innocent people !!
2) Increase the tax on guns and ammunition, just like taxes on tobacco have been increased.
3) Have ads that show people that owning guns is not the right thing to do. Americans have come a long way since the days of the wild wild west. Have they??
4) Increase the penalties SUBSTANTIALLY for possessing illegal weapons or obtaining them under false pretences and for carrying them illegally.
5) Only a stupid fool thinks that constantly watching violent movies, playing violent video games and listening to ‘music’ that glorifies violence has no effect on the
thinking and outlook of all people, let alone the younger ones who are the most susceptible to this kind of mental barrage. Address this fact !
6) Get the message to kids in schools that owning guns is not necessary, that it leads to death and the punishment could be
severe for misusing a weapon.
7) Children in schools must be taken to see the victims of gun violence, and they must also see the punishment meted out to individuals who disregard the law.
8) In general, most Americans today disregard various laws and rules. The majority do not get punished. This lack of punishment or lack of a svere enough
punishment is what makes Americans think that they can do anything and get away with it. Especially children and those with lesser intellects. This is why ALL
laws and rules need to be enforced, and anyone consciously disregarding laws should be punished.

I do not for a moment think that Americans as a whole have the will or the intelligence to forgo guns. Guns are a part of the American way of life and for making people feel stronger and safer and making them feel they have power. Until this mental attitude towards guns is addressed, there can be no banning of guns or any form of gun control no matter how useless or little.

By: Steve Usdin

Steve Usdin — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:42:11 +0000

PLEASE support Presisdent Obama’s gun control intiatives.