Nine-year-old Autumn and her mum and dad are out shopping for a shiny new gun - an actual firearm that could kill.
My daughter turned nine last week and the closest she got to a weapon was a hefty pack of glitter pens and a netball. Has the world gone mad?
Unsurprisingly, Autumn is American and from a gun-obsessed family, while most of us Brits just look across the pond, baffled, thinking: “What on Earth are you doing?”