Switched on the telly to watch a bit of news before going to work this morning only to catch a visibly upset President Obama speaking angry good sense about gun control in the States following the latest mass shooting, this time in a college. Felt sad, both for the dead and over the fact that, as he knows only too well, his words will make no difference. Already, it seems, he's been accused of 'politicising' the tragedy.
Later in the day a colleague, who's spent quite a bit of time in the US, came to my desk, looking very depressed, to ask if I knew why Americans cling to their guns as they do. I could have given quite a long explanation of the historical and cultural background of the Second Amendment, but I didn't. In the light of raw, repeated suffering the words would have been empty.
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