When you become a parent

you get a heightened sense of peril and stories about pain or distress inflicted on children affect you in a way that is hard to explain.

That is not to say that the childless 'care less' or that all parents suddenly become vengeful nutters. But if there is any defence for his comments, it is because he has daughters and places himself in the position of a father learning of something like this happening.

This morning, I listened to the parents of the British boy shot dead in his teacher's arms at Sandy Hook. If I were them, and the gunman had survived, I would want him boiled in oil.

Posted By: norway, Jan 16, 13:02:04