Dan, I have no issue at all with guns for hunting. In fact I have often said that hunting is a much more moral way of getting meat than farming animals. Unfortunately we are not talking guns for hunting here. When did you ever use an automatic or semi-automatic to hunt? Why does anyone need to own 47 (or whatever number it was) high power firearms? We are talking about the nutcases here. Limit the access to such firearms. Screen people who want them. Make them take safety and psychological tests every year. But something needs to be done.

If Beardedbruce is correct and the number of murders per firearm is the same across the pond then surely reducing the number of firearms will reduce the number of murders. There are flaws in Bruce's stats but he does make a valid point and it does demonstrate that the big difference is simply the number of firearms available.

I just hope that something does happen before another tragedy occurs.

DtG