Facts are facts - some small children here have access to real guns and, somehow, have been brought up in a culture that condones their use.

The idea of censoring what is watched by children seems to be anathema to a certain section of the parents. So long as the kid is quiet they don't seem to care what they watch. Add to that the type of computer games on sale, that children may at some point have access to, and a lack of any real discipline in some homes and you can see where that is going.

The only difference, it seems to me, between the States and other countries is that guns are more freely available here. One has only to look at the Jamie Bulger case in Britain to know that disturbed children exist in other countries. They just use different methods of hurting others. What troubles me is that this trend seems to be on the increase and I wonder what kind of adults we are producing.