Don't take a knife to this gunfight

I GENUINELY do not understand why anyone, on either side of the Atlantic, would waste so much as a soupçon of their breath arguing for gun control in the US. What's the point? America is stuck with its gun glut from now until eternity.

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The calls for tougher restrictions were predictably and pointlessly renewed this week after the appalling school shootings in Minneapolis. “Never again,” was the utterly understandable anguished cry in the hours afterwards.

Understandable, but seriously deluded. And here’s why.

America could alter its constitution and repeal the infamous Second Amendment — the one that guarantees the people “the right to keep and bear arms” at midnight tonight, and it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference to the numbers of school shootings, gang shootings, shootings during robberies, domestic shootings, accidental shootings, or shootings of any kind, cause or description.