It is the ease with which firearms are readily available in the US and the violence depicted every day from cartoons to action films on TV, which has brought about this curse. At the end of the day, we've all had the temptation in a fit of anger to want to do some “enemy” or “bad acquaintance” in, but the ease of buying guns in the US has, unfortunately, allowed countless tens of thousands every year to give in to the temptation and commit murder with ease. Unless there is gun control at the level of say the UK in the US, these dastardly acts will continue. I have walked in Riyadh late at night in the middle of the souk, and I have never felt safer in my life. Carlos Brenez