Why does anyone think an online petition is going to accomplish anything???
Write or call your lawmakers instead. You're wasting your time with an online petition. They're too easily forged or "stacked" with unverifiable "signatures", and take too little effort to "sign". If there were 100,000,000 "signatures" on it, it would have as much effect as if there was one.
I especially hate these damn things because people "sign", think "OK, I've done my part!" and then don't do things like write their lawmakers.
Please, please, please... let this silly thread and silly "petition" die.