Through the mirror

125 or more children and teachers dead in a Pakistani military school.  The world is rightly horrified by the carnage and loath to believe that anyone would kill children as a political statement.  Of course, the deaths the killers were protesting take place in the Pakistani hinterlands where there is no media to document the hundreds if not thousands of innocents killed by the military in its war on the Taliban.  It would seem this is the outcome when an entire country has access to high powered weaponry.  We would do well to look in the mirror.  With a supply of guns which exceeds in numbers the entire population of the US, and with memories of a massacre at a Connecticut school, it's probably only a matter of time before something like that happens again in this country.  Perhaps we even provided the model for the terrorists.  Something to think about.