We, the US, have enough issues with our normal lunacy.

Absolutely, as demonstrated by those who stand against Obama's very moderate attempt to stop the guns free for all.

I remember telling someone on a trip to the USA some years back that I had never seen a gun in real-life that was not in the hands of a policeman or a soldier and I didn't know of anyone that actually owned one.

The reaction was a dropped jaw.

Anyway school-kids will continue to pay the price for people's bizarre wish to walk around like cowboys with no restraints on their ability to tool up with lethal weapons.

When you want to talk about gun-violence just being the preserve of a few unbalanced people and nothing to do with the liberal, legal supply of guns, compare it with the UK whose gun violence statistics for the whole of the country would be the envy of many American cities.

I feel a thread-closure coming on.