Quote Originally Posted by hellosunshine View Post
hard to know where to start.it is the sheer WHY factor,the broken lives,the fact that we shouldnt be living in this climate of fear.

im lucky in the uk,so very lucky,this gun culture hasnt grasped us (yet?)like it seems to have in the USA.but even the saftey awareness surrounding children and our freedom has magnified since i was young,we never would lock doors and had so much freedom for exploration.


it is simply all very sad and all very daunting.
We did have two terrible gun massacres. One at Hungerford in 1987 (Michael Ryan) and the other at the primary school in Dunblane, Perthshire in Scotland, 1996 (Thomas Hamilton) where, if I remember correctly 17 5 and 6 years olds were slaughtered along with their teacher. In both cases, the gunmen turned the guns on themselves and both were "loners". That's what gave rise to the banning of guns in this country. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked and gun crime is rapidly on the rise, particularly among drug gangs