I’m afraid to say that, after this week, any residual respect I had for the United States of America is now gone. If it’s withdrawal from the climate change accord wasn’t bad enough, how can anyone possibly respect a country which allows its citizens to get hold of guns so easily, and then does nothing when so many people are shot in cold blood? I realise this might be a cultural issue, and that one must respect cultural diversity, but as far as I am concerned, America is nothing more than a collection of umpteen million fools, deserving only the worlds derision. Don’t they realise the obvious truth, self-evident to anyone capable of anything approaching rational thought, that making guns harder to get hold of would make bloodbaths like the one we saw this week far rarer? It really frustrates me, as I’m sure it does many people. This, on top of the election of Trump and the rest of it, means that I cannot respect America any more.