(CT shooting) "Give teachers guns": US blogs awash with people calling for more people to be armed

mirror.co.uk ^ | 16 December, 2012 | Anton Antonowicz

[Sherman Logan]

Thanks for the history lesson, some of which I was already familiar with.

Turns out UK and US are quite different, though closely related, cultures. Who knew?

[Winniesboy]

Kind of you to say so. I didn’t think what I said was particularly insightful, and could have been more elegantly expressed. Often in the past when this subject has come up I’ve felt something like this needed saying: but I’ve usually been inhibited by the certainty that, whenever somebody from this side of the Atlantic dares to say anything at all about guns, however cautiously and mildly expressed, it will provoke the kind of puerile abuse of which post 7 in this thread is a pretty mild example.