Yes, you can, as charlie says, be mad or bad and still acquire a firearm. All of us suffer from fleeting moments of madness or badness. The massive difference between us here and the US is that should most of us in the UK suffer from one of these moments, we can’t just reach into the wardrobe and select any one of the semi automatic weapons in our own personal arsenal and nip out to a local school/cinema/college and vent our spleen.
Well put, as usual, Kev. No one seriously disputes that the overwhelming majority of gun-owners in the US are good, law-abiding citizens. But I fail to see how anyone can deny that having so many weapons in public ownership inevitably results in them occasionally falling into the hands of the deranged, the disaffected, whatever. Again, it may be only a mere fraction of a percentage of the population who fall into that category, but until the US gets a grip on this I fear this will just go on and on. I guess the unpalatable bottom line is that the US in general and the NRA in particular see it as a price worth paying for that archaic “Right to Bear Arms”
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