Republican congressman says ‘we’re not going to fix’ school shootings

Tim Burchett says he doesn't see a role for Congress in preventing tragedies other than mess things up' after Nashville shooting

After the latest massacre of schoolchildren in the United States, the Republican congressman Tim Burchett answered the question Americans have all but given up asking of their elected officials by telling reporters: We're not going to fix it."

The three-term congressman from Tennessee, the state where an intruder fatally shot three nine-year-old students and three adults at a small Christian school on Monday, appeared to compare the expectation of safety for American schoolchildren with that of soldiers fighting Japanese suicide attackers during the second world war.