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	Name:	copperline -
	Subject:	Times change..
	Date:	1/12/2013 1:53:10 PM

I'm throwing out ideas I've heard but don't necessarily think will work. Arming teachers seems like a ridiculous thing to do. The people I know who want to be teachers are not the kind of folks who would like to carry a gun to work. Increased conceal carrying of weapons is something I am opposed to because I don't think more people with more guns are the answer. Increased school security is hard to argue with, except to say I don't think people will agree with the increased educational spending required to do this adequately. I think armed school staff & enhanced security could also change the educational environment in a school... and not for the better. Enhanced background checks are OK, making laws against violent video games is going to be very difficult to enforce, and a national registry of mental health would raise a firestorm of additional civil liberty issues. So only the background checks is an idea, other than restrictions on military weapons, that I could go with right now.

I just got back from the computer shop and had a short discussion with the tech about computing and video games. An avid gamer, he thinks that there is no relationship between video game violence and real violence, that laws attempting to curtain the content of video games would violate the 1st Amendment free speech provisions, and that aggressive video games give his 12 yr old son a way to ventilate any anger he might feel in a healthy way so that afterward he is more calm and less likely to be aggressive.

You?