So, let's imagine that this (presumably) profoundly disturbed or desocialised 18 year old Texan boy had been unable to buy a military assault rifle.

He might well still have had a fight with his grandmother, stuck a kitchen knife in her, gone to a primary school and started knifing children.

But I doubt he would have had the guts, and he certainly would have been stopped before killing 22 people.

All modern societies alienate people. Alienated young people can be radicalised or made angry in all sorts of ways, all over the world. There is no shortage of angry young men, anywhere in the world.

But yes, let's keep making sure that the American ones can buy assault weapons.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}