And on day 14

I wasn't going to write today, thinking the day wasn't going that bad, until my news feed started beeping at me. How I wished I hadn't looked. To be truthful I was trying to stick my head in the sand with today's white paper over the infamous Brexit. But no the bad keeps coming. Apparently not happy with directly upsetting Iran, Australia and Mexico, not to mention all the barred countries, wasn't enough upset for the week. No in America they have just overruled the law to prohibit the mentally unstable from carrying and buying guns.

Now anyone who knows me knows I hate guns with a vengeance. Apart from the odd air rifle at the fair I won't go near them. I am lucky the UK doesn't have the right to bare arms unless you are a farmer or similar, and that's the way it should be. Guns are a weapon of deadly intent and I see little need for them in our society, as you are hardly going to run into a polar bear in the middle of the street, or meet a rogue lion in your living room. It's one of the main reasons I'm often ill at ease in America, the knowledge that some people are always carrying a weapon. Unless you live in the mountains or Alaska there is no need for anyone other than  farmers, rangers and police to be carrying.

I'm sorry but are you wanting to get shot, letting everyone and anyone carry a life ending weapon? This is not the 1890s and you are not in the wild west anymore! Why am I bothered you ask? Well a few reasons  the first is i have my husbands family and some friends who live out there and their safety is always my concern. Secondly I actually like parts of America and would like to see more even study out there. But the main reason is these weapons become easily obtainable they have a tendency to pop up anywhere, even in other countries.

In all seriousness is this the right path to be following, opening up less stable people's access to guns, when society as a majority would like to see regulations tightened on them. And before anyone says you have never shot a gun you don't know what it feels like. Yes I have , my great uncle had a remote farm in England a bit to near a prison for safety. We were all taught how to fire both a rifle and shotgun, and in my case a pistol. We were all taught the severity of it all and the dangers, like the wrong ammunition in the wrong gun. Most of all we were taught it was the last resort action to fire on another. Even then I practised enough to be able to wound without taking life just causing massive pain. That said I can do the same with a knife and a bow and arrow. But I choose not to have these weapons on me, in my house or anywhere else. I leave it to the people who need to do it. People who are trained to deal with psychology of it all.

Basically what has happened now has challenged the safety of every man woman and child, plus any animals on that continent. Because it only takes one unstable person in a bad mood, with a couple of semi automatic weapons and another school or mall could become a place of the next massacre. Not to mention it puts any dignitaries in further danger, just look at past history, 4 sitting presidents shot dead, 2 further injured, and that's just presidents. Celebrities, senators even popes have either died or been injured by guns. Guns have no place in domestic life of the 21st century and certainly no place in the hands of those less stable than the norm.

I breath a sigh of relief that the UK doesn't seem to want to follow this path, for a change. But this law will have a ripple effect and one I really don't want to read or hear in tomorrow's news. We are meant to have evolved  beyond caveman mentality, but I am now convinced of this less and less.