I've just heard the news myself. I can imagine it's as shocking to you as the Port Arthur massacre was to us. The UK, like Oz, is not a place where guns are common, as you say. And again, it's one bloke deciding that his misery - I have no idea yet what caused this unhappiness of his - was worth visiting upon others.

Men turn their anger outward, women inward. It's a cliche, not always true, but damn it, it seems to hold so often. What gives these men the right to destroy so many other's lives because they're not coping? Is this the male ego? If my world doesn't work then I'll destroy everybody else's? What unutterable grief this bloody bastard of a prick has visited upon the world.

And yeah - guns? I'm *such* a fan.