""One hard, cold fact; if they stopped making guns today, there are still over 300 million of them in circulation. Would anyone care to address that?""

It could be done, at least with the law abiding majority.

In the UK, a weapons amnesty, combined with a threat of severe punishment after the deadline, took most of the unlicensed guns out of circulation and many licensed guns too.

It also cleared a lot of other weapons from Boy Scout sheath knives to machetes, nun-chucks, Samurai swords etc. etc.

I realise that it will be more difficult in the USA, but if it isn't at least tried, the end result will be a nation of frightened citizens, afraid to leave their fortified (with the very weapons they are scared of) homes.

More and more I thank the providence by which I was born in the UK.

Don T