As America rocks to yet another senseless shooting in yet another public place we have to ask ourselves is this the England of Tomorrow?

A gunman enters a dance class in a keep fit Gymn, turns out the lights and opens fire, finally turning the gun upon himself, this is a class full of women and only women, at the time of writing this the numbers are still unknown, some say five dead some say four, some say there were a 100 in the class some sat only 30, to be honest does it matter how many there were?

What matters is that once again someone has taken it upon themselves to play God and to take away the lives of others Mothers/Daughters/wives/sisters, what matters is that families in Bridgesville USA are this morning mourning the senseless taking of their loved ones lives, in a state of shock and asking the age old question 'Why?'

In July a 3 year old boy shot his brother after finding a gun under a bed, luckily the young boy survived, unlike the 5 year old that shot and killed himself in his fathers car in Las vegas after finding a gun in the glove compartment, also in June an 11 year old boy shot and killed his nine year old brother in a row over a video game, the police have deemd this as an accident as the boys were struggling over the gun and it 'went off' they have deemed that the shotgun was too heavy and long for the boy to lift and shoot.

The point of the matter is that the guns were there for the children in those incidents to find and use. And yes this is America where licenced guns are allowed in the family home. But how long is it going to be before this kind of thing is the daily report here? Already we have had reports of Children being shot some fatally, some have survived.

Guns are available in this country, criminals have been using them since time immimorial, look at the Krays for just one example and that was as far back as the sixties. Our law enforcement is unarmed for the most part with only specialist units having weapons, but how long before the police walking our streets will be wearing sidearms? The criminals use firearms more and more, robberies being reported are often reported as the criminals having shotguns, there will come a time when the gun laws will change will we become America?

Let us hope that this does not happen, let us hope instead that the Authorities in this country clamp down on the import and sale of illegal weapons, let us hope that the sale of Guns and the criteria for selling and buying them is tightened to a degree that makes it hard for them to be bought and sold.

If this does not happen then the reports from above will become the reports that we see on our breakfast news, and it will be our children and our sisters and mothers and daughters that we are mourning.