It is not reasonable to expect that teachers can or should do what we normally send in a highly skilled Special Weapons And Tactics police unit to do. Encouraging or sanctioning teachers to act as combatants is a set up for disaster. Let the teachers teach, counsel, and help students grow up to be non-violent people and let the police do the job of protecting them and their students while they do that.

While VA state senator Henry Marsh (D) went to DC to attend the inauguration, the state Republicans drove a bill through the legislature (50 Reps-49 Dems in Marsh's absence) a redistricting plan making it easier for Republicans to gain a majority.

We should protect our children and love ones by taking assault weapons such as the bushmaster use to slaughter 21 children while at school. The only hunting this assault weapon is good for is hunting people. Lets pass some sensible gun laws.

Here we sit paying more in support than we bring home. Due to the laws going on the previous years income. My husbands job is based on natural disasters. If no tragedy he dosent make money. And we have to wait until February of each year to reapply for a reduction. Wasting the courts taxpayers and our time. One year he made 52k the following year 40k and was made to pay support of the 52k from the previous year. While I sit and fight tooth and nail for the 2.25 I get monthly. Very sad. As well as having a child over 18 not living at home and with their own income and I am supposed to be responsible for the medical until they are 21. How come the father is not responsible?

I had an abdominal CT scan done recently, which took all of 15 minutes. I received a summary of the expense to my insurance and medicare of $4,457.30. I called my insurance to ask about this high price for a scan that only lasted 15 minutes and was told that it is at the discretion of health care institution for the charge. How can someone who has a high deductible or no insurance afford this? It disturbs me that health care is not affordable for all people.

I am increasing alarmed at the amount of money that you use to challenge, all Democratic, Federal Initiatives that have the favor of the majority of the American People. It is making our State a source of showing discourse to our Repubic as used on BBC News and Al Jazeera English.

Arizona's beautiful landscape is marred by broken glass, empty glass and plastic bottles and beverage cans. Urban areas have more recycling options, but rural Arizona has become a trash midden. Imposing a 2.5-cent recycling fee per bottle and can would increase recycling, reduce unnecessary waste, clean up the landscapes on which so much of our tourism economy depends, and could provide an allowance supplement for youngsters.

WIA is a government tuition assistance program for unemployed workers who want to retrain themselves for in-demand jobs, such as computer networking. The problem is that many participating schools have dramatically raised their tuition costs (my school went up over 208%!) in order to 'milk the program' (?). The WIA contract REQUIRES participants to complete their studies or face penalties, so many students are forced to take out loans they may not be able to repay in order to complete their funding or - in over a quarter of the cases - they drop out and never finish the program, having wasted two years of their lives in a futile effort to improve themselves.

Term limits on all elected officials. New ideas should be brought in so corruption does not occur.

Several States are currently considering reforming their electoral voting approach based on electoral votes per Congressional District. This would result in a variety of approaches toward the election of the President from State to State. And, within each State, it would magnify the problem created by party politics controlling the establishment of the Congressional Districts. While more voters supported Democratic candidates, the Republicans control the House of Representatives. The same result would have occurred had electoral votes been allocated by Congressional District.

Protecting Kids

The Republican-dominated Senate has voted to allow Senators to carry concealed firearms on the Senate floor, but has banned visitors in the public gallery from wearing hearing aids.