To be fair, although from this side of the pond this story sounds like a barmy over-reaction to a teenager mouthing off online, I was reflecting on the fact that people with guns DO actually shoot at, and kill your Presidents every so often! So I guess it's all relative and that a drunken teens "threatening language" might seem somewhat more threatening over there than it would tend to do here.
The most our Prime Ministers are forced to endure is the odd lobbed egg or being ridiculed by Ian Hislop on BBC2 (I don't really think Hislop's an enemy of the state btw!). Or shocking abuse like this: Cameron is a...