We would no longer have to worry thatour grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminalgeneration that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings thattheir fate was in our hands.
Yet in early December, a 28-year-old man was driven to "self-investigate" the reports, wielding an assault rifle at a employee and firing it inside the restaurant.
I'd been so consumed by office gossip that I hadn't noticed someone had quietly helped themselves to my beautiful, supple brown leather bag - and to my entire working life that was inside it.