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More seriously, why would it be the other way round, why wouldnt we follow you: your political, military, cultural etc reach and power are so much greater than ours.

Funny, it's the other way round from our perspective: we talk about "being a decade or two behind America"!

Many Palestinians are descendants of those 12 tribes*: Jews who converted to Christianity 1900 years ago. Many Israelis are descendants of the Khazars, a Turkic people who converted to Judaism in the 7th century AD. So much for physical descent! *Actually only 2: no one knows what happened to...

I agree with Martin: virtually no law-abiding person here wants to own a gun (outside of those who have one for sport) - we don't want to end up like you.

A great man of God has gone to where he belongs and has his eternal reward.

Presumably you would apply the same degree of outrage and fear to the equally non-judicial Jewish Beth Din courts, which perform pretty much the same function within their communities and which have existed for decades in the UK?

When you call something that causes so much needless death and misery 'inalienable ', then you have a real problem as a country. Kind of like the 'woman's right to choose' : that part of the same culture of death has become so embedded in both our countries that it will take a wholesale...

The Florida schoolkids give me.hope

You're right: we don't and thanks be to God never will. So I repeat my original question: how many more schoolchildren need to be massacred before you wake up and smell the coffee on your side of The Pond?

No, it's the same phenomenon that causes WWI generals to cavalry charge trenches bristling with machine gun nests and heavy artillery. Their men aren't bothered about post- modern accusations as they all died in the first theory seconds. .

No we are not as we don't need to know them for our UK jobs funnily enough. It's not much of an inalienable right though if (a) it was the subject of just an amendment (b) is only held by Americans and (c) trumps the right to life (of children in this instance)

Ok, some inaccuracies to tackle here. George III didn't suffer from porphyria until 1788 some 5 years after the Treaty of Paris but, in any event, it was Parliament (then run by oligarchs like Townsend and North) who screwed up not the king. Even more so in 1812: George had been declared...

Then then not a well regulated militia then are they, just an armed rabble. Rather different from Washington's Continental, wouldn't you say? If that what 'well regulated' actually means then it sounds more like a recipe for vigilantism, mob rule and anarchy. Whither then the Rule of Law...

Ok, don't know how many of these I'll get it before the 6 hour window closes as am getting up for work at the same time but I think I left off here. Your suggestion that teachers be armed: for me that's one of the scariest ideas to come out of these school shootings and would.have me pulling my...

It's not inalienable if it's an amendmemt. Clue's in the name... Off to bed now...

It's past midnight here and I need to get some shutter so I can't pick up on everything you've put but will have a go. The Tony Martin case: Martin was convicted because he shot an unarmed burglar in the back whilst the criminal was trying to escape. A jury of his peers found - correctly IMO -...

Are they required to undergo any form of military training? If not, on what sense can they be held to constitute a militia

So we come back to the viability if an 18th century solution to a 21st century problem.

Which....um...demonstrates an irrational fear of Muslims. I rest my case

But...to return to the debate in hand... What happened to the other bit of the 2A, BTW, you know, the bit about having a well-regulated militia? Surely that's the National Guard, Army and the police? Why do all these other guys need guns under the 2A? At the very least, shouldn't you have the...