[Charlotte Innes]

People with guns = dead people. Somewhere, sometime.

Where's that saddle? Janice, was it? I need to get on it too.

Gregory, not all Americans are insane--although of course I grew up in England! And it took me many years to understand the frontier mentality that still exists here.

However, there isn't a frontier any more. Or rather the frontier has moved to the kind of neighborhood David R. just described so frighteningly and well. (I was almost in tears, David.)

Also, the shooter in Connecticut apparently had Asperger's syndrome (a form of autism). Not all kids with Aspergers are violent. However, I have met at least one kid who was--who walked around school threatening to kill people. Supposing he had had a gun?

OK, I've said my piece. Peace....

Charlotte