I commend your diligence on the matter, however I see a fatal flaw with this concept...
If I wanted to start a petition, I make an account, write one up, and post it on the White House website, and share it with my friends.
200 other concerned citizens get the bright idea as well and write one up for themselves.
So now there are 201 petitions with the same goal in mind, but the 100,000 signatures needed are spread between these 200 petitions.
So unfortunately there are 200 petitions with only 500 signatures each and the legislators don't take a second look at it, if they even took a first to start with.
We need a political group to act as a head for the cause, and everyone hops on that bandwagon to make each signature count that much more.
I appreciate you doing your part to try and protect the hobby that we all love so much tho.
Good luck to you and all of us
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