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For me there is a certain irony here.
I've just got out of a fortnight in hospital having been shot!
A total accident - I was out foxing with a neighbour and he skidded in some mud just as he pulled the trigger- but one I certainly could have done without!!!
I like guns.
I have three for different situations.
I've been shooting since I was 16.
In that 35 years, I've never once felt the need to own an assault rifle or semi-auto pistol (or indeed any pistol).
There's no need for them outside of a war zone and even the police should be restricted in their use.
There can be endless dbate about mental healt and the erotica of gun violence, but had these weapons not been available to this man, its a certainty that (unless he had a bomb) he would not have been able to inflict death and injury 'on the scale he did.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Newtown and hopefully this incident will bring about some change in the US gun laws.
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