That firework picture is fantastic.

a friend has several firearms ( all legal ) he doesn’t see a problem with it

but anyone even slightly sane can see someone with a fixation to have and collect various tools that the sole intention and design is to kill others

deffinately has an underlying social problem !!

I have no interest at all in guns,but I don’t see why you don’t think it’s possible to collect and appreciate firearms for their own sake,without having the slightest intention of ever using them for their original purpose.
Even the most stringent of regulations can never protect against an individual who suddenly snaps,so why should all the people who legitimately want to own guns,for whatever reason,be prevented from doing so ?

More revelations about ” what made him do it ” in today’s paper.This time it’s about how he was apparently taken in by a young woman he met on holiday,showering her with money until she recently rejected him.Do I really need to know that ? Isn’t the fact that he’s done this bad enough for his family,without having all his unsavoury little secrets stripped bare ?

Interestin psychological point.
When the Dunblane school shooting happened,it seemed more personal to me because my husband’s aunts lived in the road where the school was,and at the time our daughter was only slightly older than the children who were killed.I’d visited Dunblane often,and the thought of such evil happening in this pleasant little town was quite obscene.
But over the years,quite astonishingly,I began to feel some compassion for the man who’d felt so alienated from society that he planned his revenge by doing the very worst thing you could ever contemplate,killing innocent children.
I can’t imagine ever feeling this for Derrick Bird though. What sort of little sh*t beckons someone over to his car,then shoots them in the face ?
Weird.

It’s interesting that most people have picked up on the subject of firearms cotrol,where to me the way the media have handled this major human interest story has been fascinating.
A lot of what I’ve seen and read has been pointless to say the least,if not downright nauseating.

Endless speculation about what drove Derrick Bird to do this,when the only person who can answer with certainty has taken the secret to his grave.

Psychological explanations of how he would have been feeling while he was killing people – how hard is it to imagine a nutter with a gun ?

Asking eyewitnesses ” How did you feel ?” How the hell do you expect them to feel ?

Blogs from ” a community in shock “. Is that really necessary ?

A horrible event which just lends itself to sensationalist reporting,I suppose.

Taking Dad to visit Mum in hospital.
Both of them fell asleep.
No problem though,because that left me free to enjoy a long conversation with a nurse about bowel habits in the elderly.
I’ve certainly had better afternoons.

Not a great age …

Used to watch The golden girls occasionally years ago,and she seemed to me to be quite old then,but she must actually have been younger than I am now.
Life really is short and time is fleeting …
.. so the thing to do is enjoy it as much as you can,while you still can.

R.I.P. Rue.

Visions of Cumbria.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQHB48T9bBE&feature=related