WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional gun rights supporters showed an increased willingness Tuesday to consider new legislation to control firearms in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shootings — provided it also addresses mental health issues and the impact of violent video games.

A former co-chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., and 10-term House Republican Jack Kingston — a Georgia lawmaker elected with strong National Rifle Association backing — were the latest to join the call to consider gun control as part of a comprehensive, anti-violence effort next year.

"Put guns on the table, also put video games on the table, put mental health on the table," Kingston said.

But he added that nothing should be done immediately, saying, "There is a time for mourning and a time to sort it out. I look forward to sorting it out and getting past the grief stage."

(video games? really? gun control in the same breath as video games? that's damn insulting,the madness that fueled this tragedy has nothing to do with video games. so long as there are people they will do terrible things, my sympathies the families who have suffered such terrible loss,the culprit having robbed them of justice by his own hand,but if we allow this one act of inhuman cruelty to cause us to seriously consider curtailing our liberties to kowtow to base fear is an insult to the dead.   )