  The Baltimore Sun  Hold parents accountable for student
behavior to prevent school shootings [Letter]  The biggest flaw
of democracy is that politicians would say anything and do
anything to fool the "majority." If you subscribe to the concept
that smartest constituents constitute top 10 percent or so,
democratically elected politicians represent the wishes of the
"majority" not the wishes of their "smartest" constituents.
Take the opportunistic response of Gov. Martin O'Malley to the
Connecticut school shooting. Nothing in his proposal would have
prevented the Sandy Hook shooting, including limits in size of
the magazines. I am not associated with NRA but can shoot 100
rounds from 10-round magazines in less than a minute! I called
our state senator's office to tell him not to blindly vote for
O'Malley's proposals just because you are a Democrat, but think
about it. The only interest on the other side of the phone was
to tally how many calls in favor and how many against the
proposal, not common sense or r