In the wake of the one-month anniversary of the Newtown shootings, the country's grief over mass shootings, one-on-one gun violence and unintentional gun deaths weighs so heavily on our collective conscience that once again the nation seems ready to take action.
In the first incident on Friday evening, two men - one of whom was carrying a gun - stole money and cigarettes from an RS McColl's newsagents in Clarkston.