For swords into ploughshares read guns for sex toys

Canada.com report that:

'A shop in Alabama on Tuesday launched a Valentine's Day offer it hopes will trigger a large response in a limp economy: customers can swap their guns for sex toys.

"In today's economy, this is a way of helping people who may feel they can't afford something for Valentine's Day," said Sherri Williams, the owner of the Pleasures sex toy shop, where assorted erotica during the next week can be obtained in exchange for cast-off firearms.

"This way, they can take something that's just lying around and swap it for something they can take home and make love, not war with," she told AFP.'

I think that that phrase regarding firearms that are 'just lying around' sums up so much of the difference between the USA and UK.