I agree that killing wild creatures (with guns or anything else) is pointless and cruel. Why not let the animals live and enjoy photographing or observing them? As for guns in UK, we do not have any in our houses. Only people such as farmers who need to keep pests down, and those who belong to shooting clubs at competition level have firearms, and they are very very strictly monitored and licensed. This is as it should be, and I totally agree that children should not have access to literature such as gun magazines on newsagents' shelves. It's bad enough here with the increase in knife crime and the carrying of knives. We don't want guns as well, thank you very much! As to violent TV programmes and those dreadful video games, I feel it's obvious they have a sinster effect on the minds of the young. They certainly aren't 'harmless'. I deplore them.