A petition urging the Obama administration to “produce legislation
that limits access to guns” has more than 25,000 signatures just hours
after its inception.
“The goal of this petition is to force the Obama Administration to
produce legislation that limits access to guns,” it reads in part.
“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.”
A petition on the White House’s “We the People” website needs 25,000
signatures in the first month of being posted to earn an official White
House response. The gun control petition – initiated in the wake of the
Connecticut elementary school massacre on Friday – reached that
threshold in a few hours.
“Powerful lobbying groups allow the ownership of guns to reach beyond
the Constitution’s intended purpose of the right to bear arms,” the
petition continues. “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.”
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