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The latest American School shootings reminded me of an experience I had on Holiday in Tennessee two months ago. My wife and I went into a K-Mart store and were surprised to see the "sports" section had several racks of guns, pistols and hunting rifles. including ammunition.
At the checkout the till girl stopped as she scanned my six-pack of local beer. 'I need a photo ID for that,' she said accusingly, presumably to prove I was over21.
As I 'm 64 and grey haired, I just sighed. I showed her my UK passport, which she looked at unseeingly, and said 'I need to check this' and walked off to find her Supervisor.
Then three lady members all stood there and stared at my passport. I wondered if they thought it was a forgery
Eventually, the girl returned and mumbled: 'It has to be a US passport.'
'OK' I said, ' keep your beer then' and we walked out.
Where's the logic in a country where a foreigner cannot buy a can of supermarket beer but any one of the locals can pick up half an armoury there?
Come on America, sort it out.
The letter was sent by a Man from Scotland. I was quite surprised to read this and I am wondering whether the US has become very PC (politically correct) which is so much a British Disease or has it become a 'western' one.
