Thing is if you lived in a society where fear is so prominent, crime so violent, where the media are sensationalising every story they can, and you knew/thought that there's a chance that you or your family could be car jacked or mugged by an armed robber wouldn't you be tempted to pop down to your local arms store and use the second amendment, just in case?

I wonder how many people in the UK have started carrying weapons (knives, baseball bats, pepper spray etc...) in light of the shocking crime stories we've had rammed down our throats via the news and internet in recent years. I wonder how many criminals have responded to the threat of armed police squads in the UK by simply arming themselves?

How about that bank robbery in Hollywood where the police were out gunned by the robbers and couldn't shoot through their bullet proof vests. Resorting in the end to having to buy semi automatic rifles from a local gun store to tackle them.

The modern world is one of isolated communication, we speak to people via phones and the Internet all over the world yet don't know and trust our own neighbours. We trust only those close to us and treat every stranger like a potential enemy.

It's a vicious circle, one person arms themselves and the knock on effect is others arm themselves in defence. You give police guns to shoot and criminals and it's only likely criminals will buy guns to shoot back, and then the public will buy guns to defend themselves from the criminals. We have to appreciate that the UK is slowly creeping in the same direction. We laugh and mock the Americans as being screwed up but we may be seeing major gun control problems on our own doorstep very soon, maybe it already is a major problem.

You can't undo something like this by tightening gun control laws, it's far too late for that. The issue has festered into something uncontrollable and so desperate that I'm not surprised the response to students with guns is teachers with guns.