Stories like this sad story from America, with 9 people being killed [news.bbc.co.uk] I think show that our fairly tough anti-gun laws do actually work to some extent. Whilst shootings like this aren’t a regular occurance in the US I think they happen more than over here.
of course, the flip side of that really is that, whenever the police here react to a maniac with force, the eye is turned on them [news.bbc.co.uk]. The latest I’ve heard is that the man who was rampaging down the wrong way on the A63 brandishing a weapon was a "devout Christian" and I have no doubt it won’t be long until we hear that he would have never hurt a fly.
Yeah. Maybe. But to be honest I’d prefer that our police are left to do their job, with deadly force if necessary.
