I'm telling you Beth, the common sense party, but you're going to have to be the president. I'll be the vice president and write the manifesto. The cool thing about the common sense party is that we can agree to disagree as long as we're all going from a basis of Common Sense. For instance, I would disagree on the arming of teachers at the schools. I don't think it should be pushed for, but some teachers are very comfortable with firearms, and just that much of a deterrent of knowing a teacher could be armed, may be enough to keep some kids from coming in guns blazing. I doubt it would have much of an affect, and there are some things that may make it impractical, such as that they then become potential targets for police when they arrived to the scene, Etc, but I don't think it's something just to throw away without giving it some thought. Because a lot of times these shooters are cowards at the core, of course some of them have a death-wish and that's why they do this to begin with, but some of them are going on impulse and knowing they may get blown away before their little spree begins may be enough to deter them. I agree really the only way we can keep this from happening on a grand level like it is now is to go at the real problem which is our society and the psychology of a lot of these individual people. Better funding for psychologists in the school would probably help. But really we need to train our kids to look out for their peers and how notice when someone his hurting needs a friend and need somebody to speak up.l