I begin this blog as a person who wants to do better being a friend, wife, and teacher.  I have a husband who loves to shoot his guns and enjoys going out shooting on most days.  I was bothered by the what the president told the congress.  It did seem as if he is limiting the 2nd amendment yet I also understand that some of the states do have the same regulations.  I bought a handgun last year and there was a safety test I had to take, then there was a 7 day waiting period while they made sure I had no record.  You can not buy in CA magazines that hold more than 10.  Maybe what he is suggesting will not play a role in CA due to our current regulations.  It might play a role in other states though.  It seems anymore that to me that if the media did not talk about every shooting that they would stop or at least slow them down.  The problem as I see it is that these acts are glamorized.  Once upon a time ago, people who wanted to kill themselves, just did that.  Anymore, the people who want to commit suicide, kill multiple people then have then have the police kill them or they just kill their selves.  If our TV did not talk about for years and months, then it would not have become so popular.  I remember when Columbine shooting happened, it was awful, it shocked the nation, that was over 10 years ago.  There have been so many worse shootings since.  Guns in the hands of good people have stopped a few of these shootings.  Yet in schools, guns are not allowed and most people know that.  That is why many of these shootings happen in schools.  I do not have a child, but if I did, I would home school them.  I think too much time is wasted in the schools.  I also think that most home schooled children are better prepared for the "real" world.  Schools try hard, but there is too much testing and students only learn for the tests.  They do not remember much of what learned two weeks later.  It is finals week in one of the school districts I substitute at.  The students are not ready even if they think they are.  Many of them will cheat during the tests even if the teacher is trying to stop it and is threatening them.  The students do this due to the fact they are not ready for the test.  So far in their education they have not needed this knowledge so they will not need it.  Yet once out of school, you can not cheat on most jobs.  Also if you want a good paying job where you do not have to live at home and can pay for your own car, you need college, I have had college classes where everyone in the room has a different test, that way it is about impossible to cheat.  People who cheat in school will most likely cheat in life tool. That ruins marriages, families, friendships.  I wish our world was different.  I will just change my piece of my world.  Today I will get laundry done, exercise (yoga video) and walk (with dog), and make a healthy dinner for hubby and myself.  Hope everyone has a great day.  Focus on what can be changed.  Nothing else you can do will change that.