Massacre in Orlando - Democracies must be brave

In a recent, and excellent, BBC documentary, Inside Obama’s White House, President Obama’s frustration at his inability to make real change to America’s gun laws is obvious and convincing. 

"I’m supposed to be the most powerful man in the world and I can’t get a thing done,” he complains.

The massacre of at least 50 people in a nightclub in Florida yesterday will do little to assuage Mr Obama’s anger or that felt by the relatives of this weekend’s victims.