Lord Noel On New York

What ho! Pepys...

Lady Jacqueline had a lovely time in New York - enjoying a girlie weekend with some friends.
And she has often mentioned since that we should travel there as a couple.
But recent news reports are concerning me a great deal.
The shooting there by Jeffrey Johnson of his former boss was well televised and ended when Johnson and nine bystanders were shot.
I gather Mayor Bloomberg laments the amount of guns there are in American society and I fully expected him to use this an another tragic example of the 'American problem' to sway citizens to disarm en masse.
However - it has already come to light (remarkably when one considers how biased the media have been in the Lasange case) that ALL NINE BYSTANDERS WERE SHOT BY POLICE!
WTF?
I honestly believed that American police officers received training in how to fire guns!
But if they DID it would make these shooting deliberate!... and that can't be the case - can it?
It must be just down to the fact that the American Police are completely incompetent.
Maybe I'll cancel my trip to NYC and use the money instead to buy some target practise for the NYPD.

Tallyho!
Best Wishes - Lord Noel