Arizona shooting range accident

[BDunnell]

Just as it's not your business to tell Americans what they can and can not do - like own guns.

As stated elsewhere, this is an asinine argument given the long history of unwanted military intervention.

Since your country directly benefited from our "military intervention" it's a bit rich for you to get on a high horse about it, eh?

Oh yes, how we've benefited from becoming embroiled in Afghanistan and Iraq thanks to your former President's religious zeal for military action. Neither conflict has in the slightest bred a new generation of Islamic extremists.

(The above constitutes sarcasm, by the way.)

Another example of your hyperbola. Nowhere have I said the deaths of children are an acceptable price for the ownership of guns. That some children die from the misuse of guns is unfortunate. Just as many, many children dying from the misuse of automobiles is unfortunate. I'm not about to ban children from riding in cars either.

Hyperbole. If you're going to throw such remarks around, at least learn how to spell them properly.

The purpose of cars is not to kill. The purpose of guns is to kill. That you do not recognise this rather important difference suggests to me that you should be deemed unfit to wield a knife and fork, let alone a firearm.

Forgive me if I sound high-handed, but if there is one group of people to whom I will always feel morally and intellectually superior it's Americans with a love of guns, and I take great delight in doing so.

I'm sure you will now retort with a similar remark about 'liberal Europeans', but before you do I should say that it will come across as witless, so I wouldn't bother.