I live in the UK where mass shootings are rare (excluding Northern Ireland, due to historic problems) - we have not had a school shooting since the Dunblane massacre in 1996 (survived by tennis player Andy Murray.) After Dunblane, we tightened our gun laws. We've recently been talking about making things stricter because of the Plymouth shooting in 2021, where someone was given back a gun licence he shouldn't have been allowed to keep.

Our gun laws are only as loose as they are, really, because wealthy people like to shoot grouse for sport, and wealthy people are often the ones in parliament.

I've never seen a real gun up close. I had a friend who was in a rifle club at her university - they wouldn't even tell her where the club was until she'd fully joined and had a background check. We also have laws about storage - e.g. bullets must be stored a certain distance from the weapon - to stop people from acting without thinking, or general accidents.

It is entirely alien to me that people in the US are legally allowed to own assault rifles, without even a list of who owns what. Registration is the bare minimum, and you can't even manage that - it's so bizarre.