Gun laws were tightened up after Dunblane, Gervase, that's true. They had to be. Thomas Hamilton was, after all, a member of a gun club, and therefore legally permitted to keep those guns and the ammunition he used.

The mothers of Dunblane put immense pressure on the Government to change the law, and they are also part of the movement to bring in legislation in the USA.

But yes, they need to bring in draconian punishments for those who carry guns *illegally* and ask why so many now have illegal guns, where they're coming from and why they're being used. The whole picture needs looking at, including asking why our children are being indoctrinated into violence, with video games, computer games, films, TV, killing, killing, killing, all the time. They're surrounded by it.

If you create a society where the gun is seen as normal, then you're on a downhill slope, aren't you? It staggers me that the US has kept its gun laws as it has, purely because of a few words written down a long time ago, when life was very different and far less civilised, although I think civilisation has been going backwards for a very long time, until 3 days ago, when it changed direction.

Sorry, Gervase, I don't mean to be rude over this, but I think the toughest legislation possible should be brought in over legal guns, and the toughest punishment brought in for illegal guns, especially in the USA.

And in Texas, teachers have very recently been given permission to carry guns, albeit hidden away, in order to defend themselves from any students, or strangers, who are looking to be next on the list of those performing high school massacres. ????

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