Gun Laws should be tightened up as much as they possibly can be. The world has gone quite mad with guns. Over here in England, gun crime rises every single year, dramatically. A few years back, we had no gun crime, our policemen and women carried no guns. It was something we were immensely proud of.



I sat in my house that day, as the news came in. I can recall it vividly, 12 years on.

With me was my small son, around 18 months old. He was sleeping. I picked him up and held him as close as I could, rocked back and forth, tears flooding down, as I stared out at the front garden, looked at the daffodils that were blooming so cheerfully, Spring just starting, life being renewed...whilst up in Scotland, Winter had come to stay forever, in the hearts of so many families.

The pain I felt that day was terrible. I'd lost two little souls before him, so I know a little how the pain feels. It is indescribable. But their pain, their pain, their terrifying sense of loss, must have been unimaginable.

Dunblane's Children

My young daughter was in her school, just down the road, a small village school, just like any other....

She came home that day.

The Children of Dunblane did not, because of one man and his guns.

The mothers in my village went to collect their children early, on that fateful day, March 13th, 1996, as the whole nation went into deep shock.

Columbine, Red Lake - Minnesota, Virginia, Beslan....

How many more?

It isn't just adults killing adults anymore, not even adults killing children, it is the *children* themselves who are killing *children*

We HAVE to do something drastic, right around the world, not just in the USA. Child soldiers in many parts of the world are told they must shoot their best friend, or be killed themselves, they grow up surrounded by guns, everywhere they look...but there is no love around them, only hate.

WHAT are we doing, as a species? I truly don't understand. The purpose of life, surely, is to *live* with each other, not *kill* each other.

If we have created a society where people are now so fearful, where there is so little punishment for those who attack, or threaten others, then that society MUST change, and FAST, so that it's citizens can feel safe again. So that they can sit in their homes and not have guns under their beds or in every drawer. That's not life, that's existing, waiting for something to happen.

We have so many things to change. So many things which have gone wrong, because we've let them go wrong.

WHY are there so many gun shops? Why are bullets on sale in supermarkets in the US? I think Wal-Mart finally agreed to stop selling them, after Michael Moore shamed them into it, but how many others sell them?

We don't need guns.
But heck, we do need Love.

Today I read an interview with Michelle Obama, in which she said that Barack wanted to become President to make this world a far safer place for his children, for everyone's children.

Let us pray that he succeeds.