Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.
We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!
If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?
It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!
That's more than you know about anything else then.
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.