Inside the Americas – Mass shootings in the US: The impossible reform of gun legislation
The US town of Uvalde, Texas began to bury its dead this week after the country’s worst school shooting in a decade. Nineteen students and two teachers were shot dead by an 18-year-old gunman. When President Joe Biden went to console grieving families, he was greeted with protesters shouting “Do something!”. But can he actually do anything? FRANCE 24’s international affairs commentator Douglas Herbert gives us his analysis.
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