Shoot ‘em up Viktor

I’ve been thinking a lot about the tragic news that has been coming out of the US recently about the shootings in Arizona and the most recent one in a school in California this week. On a similar note closer to home, I was also rather shocked the other day in Budapest when at 1 o’clock in the afternoon in broad daylight, (well more like some sort of grey drizzle) I was shocked to see a big fat pistol hanging off the hip of a young boy re-filling a bank ATM machine in a busy shopping centre. Whenever I hear of or see such things I am always worried for my little brother who is a policeman in Cambridge. It always makes me think that I am very happy that they don’t carry guns themselves in the UK – I can’t help but think that as soon as the police carry guns in a routine fashion, then criminals will see that as an excuse to fight fire with fire. The longer Christian only ever has a plastic truncheon and a feather duster to defend himself the better. The other thing which is makes me think is maybe the Economist is right about Hungary being something of a far right ex-Communist rogue state http://www.economist.com/node/17851275, or maybe the gun was actually to be used to be used to kill Hungarian chiefs because the food there is definitely not something to write home about…..