Here is an email I received from the White House.

 

Amazing how they believe that anyone who is subscribed automatically is a Kool Aid drinker.

 

 

Hello --

Today President Obama announced a plan to help protect our kids and communities from gun violence. You're going to hear a lot about it, but I wanted to make sure you got a chance to get the facts, straight from me.

After hearing from Americans from across the political spectrum, we decided to focus on some key priorities: closing background check loopholes, banning military-style assault weapons, making our schools safer, and increasing access to mental health services.

The ideas we sent to President Obama are straightforward. Each of them honors the rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans to bear arms. Some of them will require action from Congress; the President is acting on others immediately. But they're all commonsense and will help make us a little safer.

Now is the time for all of us to act.

Read about the events that brought us to this point, learn about the plan we've proposed to help protect our kids, and then add your name in support to help build momentum for this plan.

Here's what we've put together:

We're calling for requiring background checks for all gun sales and closing the loopholes that allow dangerous individuals to make their purchase without going through one of these checks.

We're asking for a new, stronger ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that allow a shooter to fire dozens of bullets as quickly as he can pull a trigger. And we're asking Congress to help protect law enforcement by make it illegal for members of the public to possess armor-piercing bullets.

We're going to give law enforcement more tools and resources to prevent and prosecute gun crimes, and we're going to end the freeze on gun violence research that prevents the Center from Disease Control from looking at the causes of gun violence.

We're calling on Congress to help make schools safer by putting up to 1,000 school resource officers and mental health professionals in schools and ensuring they have comprehensive emergency management plans in place.

And we're going to increase coverage so that students and young adults can get access to the mental health treatment they may need.

We know that no policy we enact or law we enforce can prevent every senseless act of violence in our country. But if we can save the life of even one child, we have a deep responsibility to act.

Now is the time to come together to protect our kids. Learn about the plan, then add your name alongside mine:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/now-is-the-time

Thanks,

Vice President Joe Biden

If it has a returnable address, send it back with an appropriate message!

There's something I look forward to. Hearing the facts straight from uncle Joe Numbnuts. It seems signing up for their petition site automatically, at least in their minds, places you in their camp. I have signed several petitions and any of the responses I have received have always leaned in their favor. They address you like the petition you signed had nothing to do with their response and this must be what you really meant! It's probably just their way to put happy, flowery, I love Obama thoughts in your head. By the way, just a reminder, their petition website now needs 100,000 signatures before getting a response. If the responses are like the OP does it even make any sense to sign them?

If it has a returnable address, send it back with an appropriate message!

 

I replied back with a well thought out and articulate argument.

 

Got a reply "This mailbox not monitored" LOL

I can't load this page properly (http://www.whitehouse.gov/now-is-the-time) in any of my web browsers or through web proxy.

Anyone got better luck?

I can't load this page properly (http://www.whitehouse.gov/now-is-the-time) in any of my web browsers or through web proxy.

Anyone got better luck?

 

That URL has a tracking code as part of the link (to see who exactly is reading their email). If you just go to the plain URL, it redirects to http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violence

I got this email on my phone, skipped to the end, read the last sentence, gave my phone the middle finger, pounded the delete button.

I got this email on my phone, skipped to the end, read the last sentence, gave my phone the middle finger, pounded the delete button.

Same,

He wants your response on some list.

F them.

I don't need fixing, criminals do.