I question whether the DOE has control over education. If so we should expect some effect either increase or decrease in performance. In spite of their 'best efforts' there seem to be no measurable effect. I contend that the DOE is just another self serving bureaucracy which in collusion with the unions is in the business of buying votes of the educational establishment. Unless of course the performance measurement were based on the fine job of liberal indoctrination, then their influence might be discerned.

I question whether the DOE has control over education. If so we should expect some effect either increase or decrease in performance. In spite of their 'best efforts' there seem to be no measurable effect. I contend that the DOE is just another self serving bureaucracy which in collusion with the unions is in the business of buying votes of the educational establishment.

Right on the mark as usual, Dr. Sowell

Where is support for UN gun control when it should be applied by this administration. Hypocrisy of the highest order.

The criminals can afford to steal them before confiscation of legal weapons and from each other thereafter.

Then it might be called Russia or England where gun crime has increased since confiscation or Australia. Or China or Cambodia or Nazi Germany where at least 170,000,000 people have been murdered by their governments in the 20th century.

As of 12/12 162 pages comprising Thousands of documented responses of citizen Using gun defense responded below. http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/armed-citizen.aspx NRA-ILA | Armed Citizen Only a few of the home invasions and robberies are met with armed resistance. Only the tip of the iceberg Is mentioned here where citizens were armed.

(cont.) Given the seriousness of this question to the question of preventing the violence, the psychiatric profession would be required(by law) to adjudicate cases. Fact: Between 2004 and 2011, there have been over 11,000 reports to the U.S. FDA’s MedWatch system of psychiatric drug side effects related to violence. These include 300 cases of homicide, nearly 3,000 cases of mania and over 7,000 cases of aggression. Note: By the FDA’s own admission, only 1-10% of side effects are ever reported to the FDA, so the actual number of side effects occurring are most certainly higher. I doubt that the psychiatric profession is up to the task of reliably separating out that 300 out of 300,000 probable cases.

As you may have noted from my previous responses, we need to be concerned about the mental health issue but...Yes this is a precipice above a slippery slope. But still drugs are involved in the crux of this problem. Reported 4500 Public shootings, attacks and attempts by people on psychotropic drugs in recent years world wide. http://www.ssristories.com/index.php Clearly these drugs are dangerous at least when administered to people with psychiatric unbalance. They are considered dangerous by the profession yet seem to be their preferred or most effective at attaining a cure. Perhaps we also should ask what would be the results if they were not used. Could the results be even worse?

It has been often said that we get the government that we deserve. Look at England. Re-educating several generations of voters to listen to rational ideas much less understand them and vote for the more conservative candidates who would carry them out seems a daunting task. I fear the country must suffer severe burns before they understand that the stove is hot.

A rational suggestion.