Ok, Lynx. Name another incident apart from Dunblane, where someone has walked into a school and opened fire on the children, in a school in England in the last, say, 200 years.
Because I'll be damned if I can find one.
The incident with the machete attack would have been, much, much worse if the guy had had access to a gun, no matter what calibre or method of operation.
If you are going to equip a mentally ill person with a weapon, a machete is far better than a gun.
As for the 10k of fertiliser - has anyone ever blown up a school in the US, nevermind the UK?
Of course I don't really think that AKDejaVu. But when the unbelievably glib statement "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" is trawled out, what do you expect people to think? It's equivalent to a metaphorical shrug of the shoulders.
There is now a sickness in America? And what causes that sickness I wonder? The media and it's constant bombardment of children with images of gun related violence? Or is it those damned commie liberals with their poison - because we know America was sweetness and light before 1969?
Should you all believe in Jesus, because a Christian has never raised his hand to a fellow Christian?
Come on DejaVu, what is the answer you would give to the parents of those kids, both those dead and alive? That the perpertrator was diddlyed up and the fact that he had such easy access to firearms is completely irrelevant? Should they go out and buy their kids guns so they can protect themselves, because "a man without a firearm is a subject and not a citizen"?
The UK is no perfect model for gun control legislation (I personally don't agree with an out-right ban on gun ownership) - but I think we have gone in the right direction. Maybe a little too far, but the right direction nonetheless.
