True. There are more gun deaths every day in the US, which don’t make headlines so don’t prompt lengthy articles like this, which aren’t read by decent and morally outraged people, because out of sight is out of mind.

The defenders of the archaic right to bear arms I read don’t seem to own a gun out of a regretful sense of necessity for self-defence; they glorify it, like they’ve had a penis extension.

Charlton Heston’s cold,dead and empty hand would be a welcome contribution to the debate, because when he waves that rifle about he looks like a sad, impotent old man.