NJCK 5 Posted January 16, 2013 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/protect-rights-us-citizens-posses-firearms-under-2nd-amdendment-enforce-laws-currently-enacted/FlMBDY4M https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-not-allow-congress-or-executive-staff-ban-high-capacity-magazines-or-what-they-term-assault/FqlZTLvy https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/recognize-second-amendment-accordance-founding-fathers-original-intentions/7hCtRCzB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
plode 0 Posted January 16, 2013 Done, Done and Done. EDIT: I see they raised the threshold on any new petitions now to 100,000 votes required for a response. Cowards. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jamie6607 0 Posted January 16, 2013 Signed all three... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JustJoe 0 Posted January 16, 2013 FYI: The number of signatures requiered for any petition to be awnsered by the White House increased from 25 to 100 thousand . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray Ray 3,566 Posted January 16, 2013 What's with this white house website? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeke 5,504 Posted January 16, 2013 Signed a couple of days ago. Everybody should sign the petition to lower the signature requirements, that is bullsheet Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maximus 16 Posted January 16, 2013 And when it gets to 100,000, will he just up it again? Sure sounds like he doesn't want to hear any issues the citizens of this country may have. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EchoMirage 137 Posted January 16, 2013 first, i dont believe signing these petitions do anything at all. nothing. it may be a one line blurb in hussiens daily briefing. he'll look at it, and move on. second, they could have raised the petition bar because the one guy who actually does have to read them probably go sick of all the different ones coming in, and decided to raise the quota to knock down some of the less popular ones Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hd2000fxdl 422 Posted January 16, 2013 Done X3 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mmjr 0 Posted January 16, 2013 Done and although I may agree that this is most likely a fruitless attempt at preserving our rights, I do think that the cause is 110% worthy of exhausting every single possibility that we encounter regardless of how effective it may be. That's what the anti's do and it's obviously working out pretty good for them... just my 2 cents. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NJCK 5 Posted January 17, 2013 Guys, it takes seconds to sign off on these even if you think fruitless. However, consider a couple of things: 1) if the battle grows and the antis claim they have dominating support, petitions like these can be used to demonstrate otherwise because they are public record and would need to be turned over; 2) we need to show resound, solidarity, and convinction in our stance and cause, and this is one easy way; and 3) the WH responded to the very petition started on the very same website to have Piers Morgan sent home! Someone is paying attention... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EchoMirage 137 Posted January 17, 2013 Guys, it takes seconds to sign off on these even if you think fruitless. However, consider a couple of things: 1) if the battle grows and the antis claim they have dominating support, petitions like these can be used to demonstrate otherwise because they are public record and would need to be turned over; 2) we need to show resound, solidarity, and convinction in our stance and cause, and this is one easy way; and 3) the WH responded to the very petition started on the very same website to have Piers Morgan sent home! Someone is paying attention... i never said i didnt sign them. i sign nearly all of them. i still think it doesnt do much Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnnyrebel70 0 Posted January 17, 2013 What do you expect from the White House when they wouldn't even take the Death Star petition seriously Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EWC88 24 Posted January 17, 2013 Signed all three. Will be emailing my congressman in couple minutes as well for the millionth time. But this time will be even better considering how they think to make kids safe is taking these guns and mags away, but yet a Philadelphia school yesterday had some random lady walk in who they did NOT question and she took a kid and they were searching for her, don't know if they found them yet or not just woke up lol. But it shows that school security should be more on their mind not guns. Even the news station walked into the school with no problem, wouldn't want people I know going there! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raz-0 1,256 Posted January 17, 2013 first, i dont believe signing these petitions do anything at all. nothing. it may be a one line blurb in hussiens daily briefing. he'll look at it, and move on. second, they could have raised the petition bar because the one guy who actually does have to read them probably go sick of all the different ones coming in, and decided to raise the quota to knock down some of the less popular ones It does something. AT the very least the opposition has already used it publicly as a measurable indication of how correct their position is. If we don't show up, that statement is not easily refuted. We STILL may not get a fair shake when the topic is discussed, but if there isn't anything up there to show, we can't refute that statement. Someone says they are meaningless and too easy to fill out, what does that say about your position if you can't even manage to do that? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MedicYeti 96 Posted January 17, 2013 Done x3 Ditto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JrzyGuy30 0 Posted January 17, 2013 Signed X3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deuce 0 Posted January 17, 2013 Signed all 3 as well... kinda feels good Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mmjr 0 Posted January 18, 2013 Guys, it takes seconds to sign off on these even if you think fruitless. However, consider a couple of things: 1) if the battle grows and the antis claim they have dominating support, petitions like these can be used to demonstrate otherwise because they are public record and would need to be turned over; 2) we need to show resound, solidarity, and convinction in our stance and cause, and this is one easy way; and 3) the WH responded to the very petition started on the very same website to have Piers Morgan sent home! Someone is paying attention... Sorry if I came off like a tool but I'm definitely on board by doing whatever I can to fight for our rights including signing petitions. After re-reading my last post, I think I was just overly frustrated, given what's been going on. Keeping tabs on everything that's been happening over the past month and trying to defend gun-ownership has been tiring but I'm 100% in the trenches! In any case, I've been signing anything that I've come across and wrote a ton of letters, emails, and made calls. I've been getting some responses to the emails that I sent but it's all mainly generic type stuff... nothing in response to anything I actually wrote about. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray Ray 3,566 Posted January 18, 2013 not signing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hd2000fxdl 422 Posted January 18, 2013 Ok Ray, what's up? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray Ray 3,566 Posted January 18, 2013 these petitions are a joke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hd2000fxdl 422 Posted January 18, 2013 Well will it do something, who knows, but to thumb up your nose at them and not take a whole 1 minute to do the first one and then the 5 seconds each for the others, well too much time I guess? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray Ray 3,566 Posted January 18, 2013 it's got Obama's name at the top, im not signing it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites