Arms and the Moron

Apologies for the lack of blogs of late (and the lack of Welsh, I've been skimping on my homework). It's springtime and we are in the thick of the "meeting season".
The one downside of living in beautiful North Wales is that most of Trinity Mirror's regional get togethers take place in Liverpool so I have ample opportunity to get very irritated on the A55 by Jeremy Vine before flicking onto FiveLive to get very irritated by those berks who call the phone-in show.
The day after the Virginia college massacre, Five Live had some American chap fielding questions about what happened, as he defended the consitutional right of Americans to carry guns.
He suggested that the best solution would have been to allow all students to pack a weapon and that they could have "taken down" the gunman before he took so many lives.
And he was being serious.
I hope none of you minded the amount of space we gave to those terrible events at Virginia Tech. We are very much a newspaper for and of North Wales but we do carry extensive coverage of national and global events. I felt the scale of the tragedy justified a two-page spread and a page one picture.
Let me know if you strongly agree or disagree.
I managed also this week to squeeze in a visit to Deeside College where David Jones, the principal, and his team are doing a great job preparing young people for their working lives in North Wales. I am persuaded that we need to devote more energy and resources to the issue of training and education in the paper and online. North Wales firms need a steady flow of talent and colleges such as Deeside and Llandrillo have a vital role to play here.