WHAT a very thoughtful 'Thought For The Week' in The Journal recently. However, I am outraged at the implications contained in it.

If the person who wrote it was in any way knowledgeable about the security arrangements and inspections by the police, which are required and carried out before legally owned firearms can be kept at home in this country, he would know that this story cannot transfer to Great Britain.

In such a scenario as painted by the writer of the article several thoughts occur to me, such as the drug culture of America, and indeed certain areas of our large cities and towns invariably have an illegal possession and use of guns associated with it. So what has the legal possession and storage at home of guns got to do with this story.

Was the gun in the desk drawer legally owned? The instances of illegal ownership is quite prevalent in the US and indeed is not the case that the drug affected young man could have simply taken a knife from the kitchen drawer if the gun wasn't available and achieved the same end, and since he presumably went from the parents' room to his sister's room, there was a degree of lucid thought going on.

Drugs are legal when prescribed by a doctor or used in a hospital, guns are legal when licensed by the police after suitable investigation of a person's character. That's the way the laws have been for a long time, nothing has changed for it to be any different.

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