Leave it to a Brit newspaper to find our love affair with guns "baffling." It's in our DNA, America was forged in fire and blood. And we enshrined that affinity to guns in our Second Amendment. Just think how many British victims of jihad, street crime, minority crime, and mass shootings might be alive today if they were permitted the individual use of firearms.

According to several studies, and reported by the NRA, Americans use firearms about 2 million times each year to stop a crime being committed. Sometimes all it takes is merely showing a firearm to a thug, but sometimes said thug just gets shot.

The encroachment on liberties I see in the UK is aided and abetted by strict gun control laws, so now, proving a very old point, when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns. A cliche, I know, but a true one.