I’m not sure about animals having the same “rights” as human beings, but I really don’t understand why some people seem to feel the need to just kill things for little or no purpose.

Not every nutter (note use of the word “probably”) just way, way too many. And without wishing to get into one of those tedious exchanges of statistics, I doubt there are more stabbings by old ladies than shootings anywhere.

From your post you appear to be saying that just because you had access to guns, you’d end up shooting someone.

Er, no. I may have become a little intolerant in my old age, but I don’t think I’ve reached the point where I could shoot an unarmed, mentally ill woman merely for shouting in the street. The point I was trying to make was that if she’d had access to a firearm, like she probably would have done in the US, then she’d most likely have been at least brandishing it if not actually using it, and I’d have been caught up in the kind of massacre we read about all too often on the other side of the pond. The kind of incident to which the gun lobby’s only answer seems to be “More guns! We need more guns, because more guns means less shooting!”

So you lack the ability to reason & make logical decisions?

I’m afraid you’ve completely lost me here.

On the way to work early this morning I saw a woman who was clearly quite unbalanced, screaming at everyone and no-one something about “WELL YOU DON’T LIVE IN A FIRE!! DO YOU? YOU DON’T ACTUALLY LIVE IN A FIRE, FOR F- SAKE!!!”Haven’t a clue what she was so furious about but she was about as angry as anyone can get. Last I saw she was going in a convenience store and causing quite a commotion, and I couldn’t help thinking how lucky we are in the UK not to have the right to bear arms,otherwise I’d probably be an item on tonight’s news.

I very much doubt whether an “unscientific” poll conducted online by the Daily Torygraph presents a true picture.

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Forgotten the Vikings already, Moggy? Tsk.