sorry this is late, More guns at school = BAD

Over the past couple of years the number of shootings on school campuses has increased dramatically. Although compared to the college shootings in the past the recent shootings have caused relatively low amounts of deaths when compared individually(with the major exception of VT). These college shooting have become much more frequent and slightly less deadly because not as much planning have been put into the attacks(When compared to attacks like Columbine). One would think that the logical choice is to arm the people too defend themselves, but as this article points out we should leave that to the professionals. Arming students and professors is just a terrible idea, do we really want to allow a bunch of irresponsible and easily angered people carry guns on campus??? Now I'm not saying all students are like this but it only takes one to start a mass of shooting. Besides what if a madman comes on campus and shoots a student, another student shoots the perpetrator, and then a third student sees the perp get shot and thinks the "hero" is the madman. It would just start chaos that would rapidly spread and likely end in a greater tragedy than if the law enforcement stepped in. I completely agree with Mr. Galloway's post and Mr. Coronado's commentary that the peace keeping should be left to the people who have qualified for the job, been trained to handle extreme situations and have proven that they are trustworthy. And if such an event is occurs under their watch its their job to figure out what went wrong, how to fix it and too never let it happen again. And if they cant adequately protect the students we need to find someone who can! If this bill passed I would feel less safe on campuses, because of the knowledge that almost anyone can have a weapon.

Drought Disaster Declared in Travis County

Today the Austin American Statesman, reported that the Travis county commisioners unanimously decided to declare a drought disaster in Travis county. The county commisioners sent a letter to governor Rick Perry to support his effort for relief funds for the disaster and they also gave the Texas AgriLife Extension Service the go ahead to do a study on the effects of the drought on farmers and ranchers. In Bastrop county 1000 head of cattle have died since the drought began two years ago, while in Travis county the damage to the livestock is not as severe it is definitly a prominent and looming threat. The death of the livestock is due to the fact that 75% of the livestock ponds and water sources are dried up or unfit for livestock. 

The ongoing drought combined with the recent decline in the stock market, failing banks, and the national government trying to bail out water from a fast sinking ship seem awfully reminiscint of the great depresssion and the dust bowl. 

So what does the future hold for the economy and climate? Well no one knows for sure but hopefully we'll see a complete turn around like after the great depression.