Yet another gun massacre and still America does nothing

More innocent lives lost in an orgy of violence. This is not the Land of the Free that America's founding fathers intended, writes Pádraig Hoare 

Crosses with the names of Tuesday's shooting victims are placed outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Picture: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Americans are shot in school, at church, out socialising, in shopping malls; America mourns, mostly through “thoughts and prayers”; America moves on; rinse and repeat.

The statistics are harrowing. Las Vegas strip 2017, 58 dead and 546 injured. Orlando nightclub 2016, 49 dead and 53 injured. Virginia Tech university 2007, 32 dead and 23 injured. Sandy Hook school in Connecticut 2012, 27 dead and two injured. Texas First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs 2017, 26 dead and 20 injured.