Wasn't aware of any of this overnight but woke up to text messages which brought this to my attention which has prompted a rare weekend visit to Donstalk to say this:   
An argument for guns? Don't get me wrong. I'm not pro guns by any stretch of the imagination but if the average Joe in France was packing heat those terrorists would not have had free reign to wander about firing at anything that moved. People would have fought back very quickly very possibly greatly reducing the number of people the culprits were able to kill. It's easy to shoot at folk that can't shoot back.    
I realise what I'm saying though. I'm not suggesting we issue everyone with a gun. That's not the answer in my opinion. Although I don't know what is admittedly. Other than the equally unrealistic un-indoctrination of all religious types. That would remove 99% of violence from the world.    
Fuck sake.    
I'm seeing that other western countries are ramping up their security. I'm due to fly over to the US tomorrow. I should be ok though because I'm white and have blue eyes. Although I've been "listed" for random searches at US airports before probably because out of my group I had the most foreign and weird looking surname.