The reaction is one of anger and frustration, not hate for America.
Most British people like the US, and many people here are fed up of these spree killings. And children as victims just fuels more anger. And many Brits will never grasp the gun love in the US. I do, but guns have never been anywhere near as mass owned as your nation. We were built on the sword, not the gun. And we kill with knives, not guns.
It is utter hatred of America. You have obviously not been bothering to read the comments on almost all the newspapers. Scotsman, you get one negative comment on Great Britain at FR and you are all over the person who has written it. But just go look at the bile that is poured out on a daily basis on your broadsheets and tabs. It is sickening.
And why are Brits “fed up” with spree killings in America? Why don’t you look (I know, it’s hard to find!) at the crime sections of your own sites. Just yesterday two gun killers were sentenced to prison and an old man was pistol whipped in one of the great cities in either the Midlands or Yorkshire.