So now it's two kids under 8 who have shot their toddler siblings in the US! And the Neanderthal gunslingers of the USA want more guns. Go figure?

Now, I am a strong supporter of the American idiom (despite my irregular criticisms) and their many amazing achievements, but let's get real - what a bunch of self-serving morons.

I do get the American Constitution. I truly do understand where the pro-gun lobby gets its moral strength - but really - it's the 21st Century now - not 1787.

When  the Constitution was written, it was to enable the country to protect itself. Which cretin believes that the hand gun or machine gun is the way the USA will be protected in the 21st Century.

In fact it's the gun that is a significant contributor to the destruction of the values that have made the USA so strong for so long. Just look at South Africa. Give me one good argument that will convince me that the USA won't end up like that sick society where people are scared to walk in the streets and where 'everyone' carries a gun for self preservation.

It's easy to preach rights - but it takes guts, honesty and intelligence to confront one's reality. And the gunslingers of the US have neither the honesty, intelligence or moral clarity to resolve this themselves.

In a blog I wrote a couple of years ago commenting critically on some of the weirder US practices, I received a comment that said "Then keep your sorry arse out of the US."

I bet that person owned a gun!