America and their enemy within

Another massacre in America, is it so surprising?  To part an American from his/her right to carry a gun would be near  impossible.
Since the American Revolutionary War Americans have clung to their right to carry guns even though the former imagined or otherwise threats from  wild animals, native Americans, territorial  rights, and necessity to hunt for food etc have long since gone. Generations of Americans continue to embrace and glorify the gun as a living inheritance - a permanent ingredient of the nation's style and culture.
The gun represents a symbol of power and masculinity.  Cowboys in Wild West films, gangster films,  later    The Terminator,  Pulp Fiction, and up to  the present day films depict the gun- toting hero as a celebrity.
America has the least restrictive gun control laws in the developed world except for Switzerland, and this is mainly due to the all powerful gun lobby.
As recently as 2004 attempts to bring in gun control failed. Strong lobbyists included 'Students for Conceal Carry on Campus',  'Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership', 'Second Amendment Sisters', 'Second Amendment Foundation', and most powerful of all  'The National Rifle Association'.
In 2007 spending on lobbying against gun control totalled c$1,959,407 million, against that,  gun control spending  was a mere c$60,000 thousand!
America is its own worst enemy. It refuses to ban guns then  complains when inevitably serious accidents occur.  It  will not face up to the fact that it is a sick society, likes to pick fights with its own,  and has the nerve to proselytise  its schizophrenic and sad culture in the form of violence abroad.

Morrissey and Marr (not Andrew), men with principles

Thank god for Morrissey! He was right to publish a 1,224 word attack on the Prime Minister for supporting foxhunting, shooting, and stag hunting, and at the same time support the Smiths. His ex guitarist Johnny Marr forbade David Cameron on twitter to 'like the Smiths'.
The gun happy establishment still find pleasure in shooting and hunting all manner of defenceless animals. Pheasants are artificially reared so that the rich can get their sadistic fix from shooting them down when they are artificially 'beaten' in to the sky. (pheasants are not naturally good fliers). This activity must help to make them feel like 'real men'. Rich landowners make pots of money from rearing the pheasants and conducting the shoots. It doesn't seem possible that this barbarous behaviour still happens in 2010!
The Royal family lead the way. The two boys, Wills and Harry, are never far from a gun, or a bottle or can of alcohol, and now the prospective new in-laws the Middletons have to prove their salt and learn how to handle a shot gun! Prince Charles, the oh so green and pure Charles of 'Duchy Originals' fame, well, he likes a 'good' killing too. Now we see a photograph of that despicable ugly red neck Sarah Palin clutching the horns on the raised head of a beautiful caribou that she has just shot. She has the nerve to say Julian Assange has blood on his hands!
Morrisey's songs sum it up to perfection, 'Meat is Murder', and 'The Queen is dead'!