May 09   Editor’s Pick JUNE 3, 2010 7:49AM  This Doesn't Happen
in England  Rate: 32 Flag  12 people were shot dead in England
yesterday by a taxi driver, who drove from town to town in the
[county] of Cumbria, picking off those he saw as they went about
their day-to-day lives.  In their white starched dresses In
their pitiful white dresses On their foreheads and breasts the
little round holes where death came in as thunder while they
were playing their important summer games  (Norman Rosten,
"Guernica")  This is not the England of my childhood.   This is
not the England of gun laws, a Parliament, that, after the mass
killing of kindergartners in Dunblane swore never again. 
Dunblane is branded on my memory. My own child was four, a pre-
schooler, and for weeks afterward, the idea that some man could
walk into her class and randomly fire at them, picking those
small bodies off, one by one, tortured me.   This is the England
of my childhood:    I was nine when we moved back to England.
Our last American home h