Just to say that each time I tried to write a post today - Monday as usual - my phone pinged again with more news from the Las Vegas shootings. And I just could not seem to find the right thing to whitter about in the light of the awful news.
So I am not posting fully this week. But I am going to add my small voice to the pleas for gun controls in America. I just do not understand how anyone can want to live in a place where it is legal to carry a gun openly, where anyone can own a machine gun or worse, where no real checks are carried out on those who own guns. I understand that you cannot stop people who are very determined. But I don't think there is any reason to make it easy for people to get hold of whatever they feel like having in their gun cabinets.
It would take a mighty federal effort now to change the US and it would take a long, long time to change the culture. But someone needs to be brave and take the initiative. And I am not sure it is Trump, if you look at his supporters' priorities, backgrounds, etc...
In San Diego last year, we went to a 'sporting goods' superstore, looking for particular trainers for my son. To our amazement, there was an enormous area devoted to guns and their accoutrements. Just there, in full view. Never seen anything like it in the UK and hope never to do so either. I would not like my children to think such display of killing machines was normal.
As someone said on Twitter today, 'less thoughts and prayers and more action needed this time'.
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