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"Talking to American friends, I always sense a kind of despair that the gun lobby
is too powerful to challenge and that nothing will ever change. The same
resignation was evident in President Obama's rather lifeless reaction to the
Washington shooting last week. There is absolutely nothing he can do, which
underscores the fact that America is in a jam and that international pressure
may be one way of reducing the slaughter over the next generation. This has
reached the point where it has ceased to be a domestic issue. The world cannot
stand idly by."

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