I know that there is no reasoning with American gun nuts, and that by now they are already working on several different apologies for what follows. But to the rest of us ( Read more... )

Well, this, according to the majority of Americans, is what the "right to bear arms" is really about: to be able to point them at government if government gets uppity. Like trying to organize a rescue.

The reaction of London's emergency services to the four bombs exploded across its public transport system last July, and to the four more attempted two weeks later, struck everyone as exemplary. While the Health Service dealt swiftly and efficiently with the wounded, the police, starting from total ignorance about causes and suspects, and in spite ( Read more... )