Hmmm...seems I've hit a sensitive spot, there. Guns for protection? You mean against the other people who are carrying guns for protection? People in the UK don't carry guns for protection (unless they're gang members) we have a police force that does that. My son's one of them. Actually, he's a member of the Armed Response Unit - he has to go out and face the dick-heads who go around brandishing guns ("I was only protecting myself, officer").

As for using guns to hunt game; I have a dog for that.

Are people in the US so stupid that they still haven't learned the lesson from the mass killings by disturbed youngsters? And don't give me the crap about it's people who kill, not guns - how many people would they have been able to take out with their bare hands?

And you call me perverse!