Three words for our US friends - ‘Hungerford’, ‘Dunblane’, and ‘Port Arthur’.

Why those three? Because following each of those gun-massacres, two in the UK, the third in Australia, our governments acted with courage and strength to remove firearms from the ownership of the general public (except in very specific circumstances, and then subject to very stringent controls).

Wilfully-blind gun-nut Americans refuse steadfastly to acknowledge the correlation between availability of firearms and the number of gun-deaths in our three respective countries, but it is an absolute, undeniable (except by the delusional and stupid) fact that countries with strong gun-controls suffer significantly fewer deaths by shooting than those, like the US, who allow virtually any Tom, Dick, and Harry (or Harriet, for that matter) to arm themselves to the teeth. There’s no need to quote the statistics here, they are readily available on the internet for anyone who cares sufficiently about the scourge of shootings in the US to check out

The US needs to take a lead from the governments of the UK and Australia, grow a set of cojones, and take guns out of their citizens’ hands - no ordinary person living in a civilised country ‘needs’ a gun.