Follow RT on David Matthews is a writer whose work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday and the Observer, and on the BBC and Channel 4. He is the author of several books, including Voices of the Windrush Generation. Follow him on Twitter @mrdavematthews. Every week brings another mass shooting in the United States of Amnesia, where gun culture is so ingrained that senseless slaughter is accepted. Only a rethink of what masculinity should really represent can stop the carnage. No sooner has one gun-toting lunatic laid waste to countless lives for selfish, inexplicable and emotionally bankrupt reasons, than another sociopath comes along and does exactly the same thing, days later. In the process, the nation’s collective memory of one atrocity is erased by the next. In America, daily fatal shootings are tragedies; the body counts of weekly mass shootings mere statistics.