Everybody is aware of the tragedy that happened in America on 14 December 2012. American TV stations covered the terrible events, night and day, for more than a week and now they are weighing changes to the law. The NRA or National Rifle Association is of course already jumping to the defence of gun owners saying that it is not the guns that are the problem but the people who own them. However, they seem very sensitive about making any law changes as to what sort of screening process goes on behind the scenes to whoever owns them, with the result that you currently sit with a situation in America where just about anybody can run into a gun fair and without any background screening can buy what is essentially a machine gun or assault weapon! Of course, a mentally disabled person armed with such a gun can do far more damage than somebody armed with a smaller gun, which fires less quickly and has a smaller magazine.

The very first thing that happens, and this happens everywhere, when the government announces that they are going to be looking at new laws is that there has now been an absolute record-breaking buying spree of guns from people who are scared that they may be affected by any changes or restrictions and would rather get their hands on weapons now! Apparently high capacity magazines for guns have seen the prices rise considerably, and are still selling out everywhere. It is a tragedy that a terrible shooting incident ultimately just leads to even more people buying guns in America and obviously the current shooting spree of regular incidences is only going to increase – it is after all only 6 or 7 months ago since the Batman screening shooting and since then we’ve had 20 plus innocent children and teachers slaughtered in a Connecticut school.