29 dead and 53 wounded. That’s the tally from last weekend’s mass shootings in the US. World leaders were quick to send condolences, usually in the form of “we are with you” type statements such as that from Angela Merkel. Perhaps the only one who pushed diplo-speak to the edge was, of course, Czech president Miloš Zeman, who wrote to Donald Trump “I believe and hope, that the people of the United States and you as their representative, will fight for a better and safer America, where such despicable and desperate acts don’t belong.” The number of US citizens killed by their own guns in their own land now exceeds the number of US casualties in all wars combined, beginning