Of course, if some bloke is trapsing around the mountains of Afghanistan carrying an AK47 he'll get a Hellfire missile in the swede that was shot from a drone controlled 10,000 miles away by some pale, spotty, game-playing military vid jockey hidden in a bunker under a hill in Nevada no questions asked . . . but if he turns up at a town hall waving one he's exercising his rights under the constitution.

Who says the Americans have no sense of irony?