Pizzey's Perch

Amer­i­cans try­ing to make sense, or oth­er­wise, of their lat­est mass shoot­ing tragedy, might find it instruc­tive to con­sid­er the best-known line from renowned 18th cen­tu­ry Scot­tish poet Robert Burns’ “To a Louse”: ‘O wad some Pow­er the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!’

Politi­cians like Texas gov­er­nor Greg Abbott and sen­a­tor Ted Cruz who insist the prob­lem isn’t guns, it’s a “men­tal health issue”, could stand back and take stock of their own men­tal state.… Read the rest