In my Universe, without a shred of doubt, guns would be banned. Zero tolerance for possessing a firearm. If you listen to Put Out the Fire, a QUEEN song which I wrote God knows how many years ago, you can tell where my feelings have always been. The older you grow, the more you understand ... and the more awfulness you see. As with fox-hunting, any decent, sensible person can plainly see there is no excuse for having weapons of killing at a distance out there in the hands of the public. The kind of people who want to have guns are exactly the kind of people who should not be allowed to have them. Yet we are bullied into accepting that they have to be out there. Like I said, the deeper you look, the more the patterns become clear. In the USA, the National Riflemen's [sic] Association grinds away, with huge money and power behind it, defending the “Right to Bear Arms” - a justifying phrase glibly quoted from the US constitution which was actually almost certainly put there to make it possible to defend the USA against invaders from outside, not inside. That's what inspired my song - together with the fact that they come up with slogans like “Guns don't kill people - people kill people” - as if the fact that firearms are readily available over the counter had nothing to do with it. Did you ever see Michael Moore's “Bowling for Columbine”? Well, the USA has the NRA, and now we have the “Countryside Alliance”. They're [sic] both peddle the same horrors. Guns equate with violence - violence against people, mammals, birds ... It's a “freedom” - the kind of freedom which infringes other people's freedom - but they don't care. That is characteristic of the breed. Guns satisfy a perverted need for power in some people. Around this group of gun-toters is another breed - the breed that makes serious MONEY out of the perverted need of the shooters. The money provides power. The power is used to put politicians in place in government who will protect the whole filthy business. And there you have it. Enter Cameron and co. Watch the new Core Conservatives resist any attempt by concerned normal people to prohibit guns. Or any attempt to stop red-coated sadists torturing wild animals. Watch them. And wonder why. Why.