Stop and Think

The debate about gun control in America is likely to get bogged down in a partisan debate - with the two main parties attacking each other's positions. 

I heard some chap on the TV the other day say that the way to make schools safer was to allow teachers to carry firearms - because at the moment the 'bad guys' are not at all anxious about going into school premises because they are for the most part gun-free zones.

Now I suspect that the reason schools are gun-free zones is that if a teacher were to be allowed to carry a gun - then why not a student or, indeed, another visitor?

The same argument taken in isolation must surely apply about people having the right to defend themselves - whether that person is a student, school teacher or someone else - what essential difference is there under the law?

But it doesn't take a genius to work out that more guns there are in circulation - the more incidents there are likely to be - leading to even more shootings and deaths.

So while there are no easy answers I thought this comment - drawing a comparison between airport security and other aspects of everday life in America - certainly made me stop and think.