I'm going back to the u.s. tomorrow, my wife and my life for 30 years are there, but in my few days away i've seen a sunrise and a sunset over the Lake District, eaten fish & chips on the quiet Lancashire coast, seen a rather good football match and never for a moment thought that any of the folk i've spoken to carried a gun. Going back to where people have been shot recently going to the store, school, church, walking down the street or riding a subway train and know it will continue until a few Republicans in the Senate have the courage to join their fellow Americans in wanting to limit the supply of weapons instead of being in thrall to the N.R. fuckin' A.