America should be disgusted by gun culture blindspot

MY SISTER is in Dallas at the moment. She WhatsApps to say that it’s not all stetsons and steers. I wouldn’t know, having ever only seen it on the telly when it was shiny skyscrapers and melodramatic family breakfasts on windswept verandahs with JR and Sue Ellen.

(Younger readers, you may have to google that, unless you’ve been watching the repeats on Channel 5.)

Anyway, she says there is more to Dallas than barbeques, oil barons, and the death penalty — there are vegan cafes and gay wedding venues and you can opt for fruit with your sandwich instead of chips.