Maybe I’m just cynical, but the first thing I thought when I read this article was, “Why is the federal government involved in this?” States decide their own murder, gun control, etc. laws, so states should figure out what to do with the school violence that violates those laws. Read the Constitution, folks — there’s no role for the Feds in this.

Fortunately,  it doesn’t seem Bush has tried to bring about any federal legislation toward the quick-let’s-show-we’re-doing-something end. The closest thing is a conference scheduled for Tuesday, which is bad enough, because there’s already a forum for state government officials to share successes and failures without federal oversight.

The separation of powers seems increasingly trivial.

Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com.

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