When will they ever learn?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-premiere-Denver.html

Is it now the time for America to tighten up on their gun laws?

[EcclesCake]

Following on from MaidUps suggestion how about a rare or first edition childrens book.

Here's some ideas http://www.abebooks.c...-nursery-rhymes.shtml

[EcclesCake]

^^^Sorry

[andy-hughes]

Is that a euphemism AOG? LOL!

I'd better avail myself of the most useful bit of the Constitution, and plead the Fifth!

[237SJ]

I'm in the US watching on the news. Obama has just been on and just wants everyonee to pray. Apparently that's the answer. I'm not expecting any changes in the gun laws.

[DaisyNonna]

fender, it obviously is.

[FredPuli43]

Too late now, when there are so many guns in private ownership. It's comparatively easy to enforce bans when hardly anybody owns a gun, and nobody thinks owning a gun is a right or necessity, but impossible in the US where there are more guns than people and the Supreme Court has confirmed the general 'right to bear arms' .

[Gromit]

The alleged killer

// The authorities said that he was not on any watch list nor was he a member of any terrorist organisation. It was also confirmed that he was not a member of the armed forces. //

[Gromit]

The New York Times

// Should this young man have been able to buy guns, ammunition and explosives? The gun lobby will say yes. And the endless gun control debate will begin again, and the lobbyists of the National Rifle Association will go to work, and the op-ed thinkers will have their usual thoughts, and the right wing will issue alarms, and nothing will change. And there will be another mass murder.

That James Holmes is insane, few may doubt. Our gun laws are also insane, but many refuse to make the connection. The United States is one of few developed nations that accepts the notion of firearms in public hands. In theory, the citizenry needs to defend itself. Not a single person at the Aurora, Colo., theater shot back, but the theory will still be defended. //

[anotheoldgit]

It has also been reported that the Queen has sent condolences to the President.

I wonder how many have to die before a Royal condolence kicks in.

If she can send sympathy messages over to America, perhaps she should also consider sending out similar messages to all the families of those who have sacrificed their lives while serving in Her Armed Forces

[brionon]

You won't believe this but 32788 people died on America's roads in 2010.

[pdq1]

And they are laughing at us in our feeble attempts to tighten up security at the olympics.

[Gromit]

// 32788 people died on America's roads in 2010. //

And that was the liwest figure for 60 years.

[andy-hughes]

Your observation about the Queen's condolences does not really bear weight AOG.

There is a world of difference between individuals who are killled as part of their job - soldiers - and innocent cinema-goers who are killed by a rnadom incident like this one.

One section of people accepts the risk of death inherent in their chosen occuptation - the other does not.