Wake up America! The gun madness has to stop.

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Again and again it happens. The lone gunman - and it is usually a man - who shoots up a local college/cinema/work place/whatever, sorting out a grudge with a bullet instead of words. It happens so often that we're not even surprised any more - just resigned to the insanity. America, take note. You may consider yourself the most advanced country in the world but the rest of the world thinks you're crazy and irresponsible for letting everyone run around with guns. Please don't trot out all that historic 'rights' and 'liberty' BS - I'm not interested. Don't justify the killings of today by trying to blame the British of hundreds of years ago. We're not buying it. The gun madness HAS to stop. The whole "I've got to have one because everyone else has one" is as crazy as the old nuclear warfare model of Mutually Assured Destruction. If the world's superpowers can agree to limit their nukes, why can't Joe and Jenny America agree to hand back their firearms? And when the lone gunman with his cache of arms strikes, how many of those good god-fearing-gun-carrying folks can stand up to him? I'm no expert but it seems to me it's always the Police or the Military who step in and sort these guys out - not the citizen who thinks he has to have a gun because everyone else has one. Leave it to the experts. I won't claim we don't have killings in the UK; of course we do. But we don't have these kind of indiscriminate shootings. We did - there were the Hungerford and Dunblane massacres. Those woke us up and made us see sense. It's now very hard to get a gun in the UK. Even harder to get a load of guns or the kind of weapons with which to pepper a school with gunfire. So if you're an American, feel free to tell me why you totally disagree with me, why I can't possibly understand, and why you REALLY need your gun. Or maybe make my day (as Dirty Harry would have said) and tell me you've had enough and you demand change. And if you're not an American, tell me whether you agree (or not) that it's time for a major change.