It could only happen in America

How is it possible for a 64-year-old man to book into a Las Vegas hotel with a suitcase-full of assault rifles and guns and stacks of ammo and just open the window of his room and start firing at random at crowds of people below enjoying a music festival. He presumably asked for a room with a view of the area where the music festival was to take place. It's just so easy in America. No restrictions on buying guns - well none that mean anything - not even a licence required in this case apparently, and so every opportunity for a man with a grievance or a killing obsession or revenge or whatever the motive may be, to kill as many people as possible before being shot by the police. America is a wonderful, invigorating country. I lived there for three years and loved every moment. But surely in these days of terrorism and hatred the US can think of some way of stopping people walking into a gunshop and saying:"Good morning, I think I'll have that one, that one, and oooh I like the look of that one, is it semi or fully automatic?" It's total madness. Why can't the American people see that? Those who love their guns always say, "It's not the gun that kills people, it's the person holding the gun." Well, yes, that's strictly true, but it's a trite and stupid answer. If guns were not so freely available, the potential madmen intent on killing people wouldn't have access to these weapons. No US president has got even close to closing gunshops and banning guns except with the strictest of licences. Obama waffled on about it every time there was a shooting massacre at a school but never had the courage to take on the National Rifle Association, set up, unbelievably to protect gun owners' "rights". Trump who presumably has a weapon in every cupboard will definitely not be the president to confront the NRA. In fact no one ever will. Perhaps Bernie Sanders, if he had become president, might have had a go, but he would have failed too because of the mighty NFA lobbying of Congress, and all the hunting, shooting and fishing senators and congressmen. So this latest gunman has left this earth after killing or wounding more than 570 people from a hotel window. It is beyond belief. And the terrible thing is, it will happen again and again and again and again.....