Shooting carnage in US brings call for gun controls! Yeah right

Unfortunately Ted Cruz, Republican Texas senator, is not alone in the United States. His despicable comments about the latest mass shooting at a school - 19 kids killed and two teachers - in which he rejected any thought of depriving citizens of the right to buy and bear arms, even at the age of 18 (like the shooter at the Texas school) are shared by at least half the population. The US Constitution which was drawn up after the American civil war when citizen armies of the south and north needed arms to fight for the future governance of the country, is seen as the gold standard of America's way of life, never to be altered, changed or reformed. And the right to bear arms, the 2nd Amendment, is viewed as just as relevant today as it was deemed to be in 1787. Are you kidding me, Senator Cruz, 235 years later and you don't think the circumstances are any different today? This is a man who aspires to be a future president of the United States. God help all Americans. Every time there is a massacre at a school or grocery store or supermarket, hands are wrung and desperate appeals are made for something to change. Joe Biden did more wringing of hands than anyone but he didn't say he was going to ban the purchase of military-style assault rifles. So nothing will change. All politicians in the US talk about is tightening up on background checks before arms licences are issued. But this is so pathetic. So I'm afraid to say that thanks to people like Ted Cruz, all we can anticipate with absolute certainty is that in a few weeks or months there will be another slaughtering of children somewhere in America.