I picked this thought up from Twitter (original attribution here).
It is weird that because of one failed shoe-bombing attempt in the US, every passenger at every airport in the world had to take their shoes off and be inspected – and even now, most still do.
And yet since the Columbine School massacre (also in the US), there have been a further thirty-one school shootings, and no change in the US law that permits every idiot in the country to legally own lethal weapons.
As I said, I love double standards, me.