Utoya

So, over 600 able-bodied people were unable to stop one lunatic with a pistol and semi-automatic rifle.

And talk about the Keystone Kops: the local constabulary couldn’t get one helicopter off the ground or one boat off the landing.

An hour and a half later, 76 people, many of them youngsters like our grandkids, were slaughtered.

The law enforcement authorities in Norway have a lot to answer for, and so far, they’ve been unapologetic and even defiant.

I hope that once the public recovers from its grief that it holds these losers responsible for their failure to perform the most fundamental duty of police officers: to protect the innocent.

And what about the parents of the teenagers? In this age of regular terrorist action on the European continent, why did these young people lack the knowledge and self-confidence to defend themselves? 600 people versus 1, and almost 80 people had to die before the situation was brought under control?