Of course I think that having a system where guns are readily available and where there are millions of them in private ownership is not a good idea. Mainly because one of the consequences is to make it easier for the occasional screwed-up individual to go out and kill lots of unfortunate people.

That's hardly anti-American - after all, the people who get killed when that happens are Americans. And I gather that opinion polls indicate that most Americans would be a lot happier if there were much stricter controls on who can legally own a gun.

If I heard that some bull fighter in Spain had converted to Islam, that might be interesting. But I'd still think of him as being a Spanish bull fighter who happened to be a Muslim rather than a Muslim bull fighter who happened to be Spanish. (And I don't much approve of bull fighting either, but that doesn't mean I'm in the least bit anti-Spanish.)