Will the shootings and killings never end

I normally keep away from writing on subjects like this because one missed place word can bring shed loads of trouble and argument. The news out of America saddens me but in a country awash with guns, what do you expect! Everyone is scared of everyone but no one is scared of the gun until it is pulled out and used.

What can anyone do about the gun culture? It is a right for Americans to bear arms, because years ago a bunch of men wrote it on a piece of paper. If they could have stepped into the future, would they have omitted it from the constitution? I would hope so the world and people change the guns just get better and more dangerous.

In the last, few days two black men have been killed by police officers and in the last few hours’ five police officers killed by snipers and six or more others wounded. I expect limited calls for gun control while the NRA will call for snipers on every rooftop as they said everyone should be armed in school to stop High School massacres.

Officers tackled Alton Sterling, a street seller in Baton Rouge, to ground after a 911 call was made - allegedly by a homeless man - about a black man who had flashed a firearm. Officers Howie Lake and Blane Salamoni pinned the father-of-five down before firing six shots at Sterling, who had a gun in his pocket but did not appear to make any attempts to take it out during the confrontation until police officers removed it from his pocket.

Sterling was on probation and should not have been carrying a weapon. It is not clear which of the two officers - who are now on administrative leave - fired the shots. The blame game started almost immediately with officers saying he was reaching for his gun and bystanders saying he wasn’t.

Philando Castile was shot by an officer in St Pauls, a suburb of Minneapolis on Wednesday after his car was stopped for a routine traffic stop for a busted tail light. His girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds livestreamed the moments after the shooting on Facebook showing Castile dying in the front of the car as blood seeped from his chest.

Castile had told the officer he had a firearm on him and a license, and while reaching for his driving license and ID the cop began shooting 'for no reason'. Along with his girlfriend, there was a child in the car.

Is every white cop a racist? Surely not. While one person of any colour killed by a cop is one to many there are more black on black killings tied to gangs in the USA, the same in any gang culture latino, asian, or white. Death is cheap in the USA be for a wrap of drugs or standing on the street corner or walking in the wrong neighbourhood.

You step over the border into Canada and the gun culture is totally different. First-time owners must fill out a survey that asks about mental health and criminal record. There is a background check and mandatory 28-day waiting period. Canada also has no law or constitutional provision guaranteeing the right to bear arms.