There were marches across the world supporting the kids who want their voices heard. It’s not a ‘hurhurr take der guns” march, it’s a solidarity thing. Same way we joined together across the world for Charlie Hebdo et al, and other places in the world did for Manchester.

What’s reported depends what side the reporters lean to.

Nobody else in the world gives the slightest crap about the civil war, but it gets brought up in this context so often now that you’d think everyone in the UK was moping about our poor lost colonies. It’s just not a big thing here, and certainly not anywhere else. Just seems weird that it keeps getting brought up in this way.

In general, people are aware there’s a weird as heck and pretty unique gun culture but it’s not going away. Unfortunately, we also see the insane reactions to a tragedy - people being accused of being actors, the instant assumptions that it’s “they’re comin’ fer ma guns, maw!” or nothing, as if it’s a binary choice.

Those across the world don’t march to get rid of America’s guns; it’d be naive to think it’s that easy. We do so to support the kids who are under attack in multiple ways; firstly by nutters at school, then by whichever press and other media decides they’re fun targets.