Watching the news from France--yet another mass shooting. These seem to be fairly routine events, unless more than five are killed, they barely make the headlines. With each one though,, a new sense of outrage and cries of 'this is not who we are."

But the carnage never stops, nothing is ever done about the proliferation of weapons. Anti abortionists scream about the wickedness of killing babies. Killing people in supermarkets, in churches, schools is apparently something quite different. More and more it seems that this is exactly who too many Americans are.

I'm British, but spent much of my life in the US before I came to France nine years ago. I feel a sense of despair about the way America seems headed.