O'er the laaaaaand of the freeeeeeee
And the hoooooome of the braaaaaaaaave.

So if you suspected someone was abusing their power, your gun would help you stop them?

a) The Constitution is out of date. Amendments are there to update it, not to leave it stuck in the past.

Plenty of guns in Australia. Gun control legislation there in 1996 has ended their (almost annual) mass shootings and dramatically lowered the rate of gun crime. Not all the guns were taken away but a lot were and were destroyed. It's possible. And it's never too late to make a start: one fewer gun produced today is…

That is a shamefully selfish way to think of it. More guns means more danger, no matter whose hands they're in. There are still guns in the UK, there is still gun crime, but there is far, far, FAR less than there is in America.

So every civilian who owns a gun in America is using it to help NASA? My mistake, I didn't realise that they were so considerate.

A gun is not a tool, it is a weapon. It is not a shield, it is a weapon. They're easy to purchase legally, and so they're easy to purchase illegally, and it's harder to crack down on the illegal ones because of the legal ones.

Bizarrely, I was in this discussion at the pub with a doctor last night. He also said that healthy urine should be champagne coloured. Then, in what was to my mind the most worrying line of the night, 'And if you must have blood in your urine, it should preferably be a Rosé. Anything approaching a Merlot and you…

That doesn't say it will be the final game, just that it will be Rocksteady's final game. It's still possible we'll get another game or two following on from Origins. It would seem kind of odd for WB Montreal to get a structure for producing a Batman game in place and not commit to a sequel.

I thought it was great fun. There's no big step up from City, which I think disappointed people, but it's more of the same. With some fun storylines.

I did really enjoy the movie, but surely it's just as much about technology as it is about love? I mean, it kind of has to be when the premise is 'A man falls in love with an operating system'. We question the nature of both, and the film does a good job of exploring how both fit into our lives.

It's a tricky issue, no doubt, particularly re:Northern Ireland. For the record, I believe 'The British Isles' covers both... although using that's about as useful a term as 'Western off-continental Europe', and could cause as much irritation. Best to be specific.

Right, there's a bit of understandable confusion there. Perhaps we should all be UKish instead?

Yes, that. Not so tricky, right?

"Christian Bale is British. Well, technically he's Welsh, but he moved to England when he was one"

The British 'Think!' campaigns were always good at freaking you into safety. For example:

And I'm sure in a parallel USA where guns are outlawed people were stunned by the Sandy Hook slasher who used a razor blade on one person and then was tackled to the ground. A terrible tragedy, even if the victim was able to be taken to the hospital before the wound could be fatal.

Thank you, it is a good analogy. The point is, ease. Humans do things that are easy. I don't know if you're a driver, but if you are then think of the journeys you've made over the last few weeks, and consider if you'd have made every single one of those if you didn't have a car.

You seriously thing it takes the same emotions to use a knife on a sleeping person as to use a gun? Seriously?

If you think stabbing someone involves the same thought process and emotions as shooting someone, you are the delusional one. Shooting someone is pulling a trigger, there's little doubt of success when the victim is asleep. Stabbing someone requires much, much more physical and emotional strength; what if you miss…