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America is not about to do what's right.

It is not about to let gay men donate blood. It is not about to be nicer to the 37% of its population which is not white.

It is not about to demand Bill Clinton, if he becomes the First Husband, spend his time redecorating the White House and baking cupcakes.

It IS about to toy with the idea of electing as leader of the Free World an inexperienced, omniphobic demagogue with the charm of a slug and the tiny hands of a T-Rex.

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And the death of 49 innocents and wounding of 53 others in a gun massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando won't change a thing for them.

Barack Obama is going to be angry and dignified. Donald Trump is going to keep hate-blapping the whole world.

And the American gun lobby - which has endorsed his nomination for president - is going to keep on being unable to read their own Second Amendment.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

America, after all, is a nation able to watch 20 of its own children gunned down in an elementary school and do absolutely nothing.

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It's not about to be more reasonable about religion, either its own or other people's. It's not about to realise that people who want to shoot things for fun are a worry.

That's despite the fact that more people have died from guns in the USA between 1968 and 2011 than in all the wars it has ever fought.

The other governments of the world aren't about to do anything either.

Even though a lot of us go there, and last year it shot 40,105 of its own people.

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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is not about to issue a travel advisory.

The EU is not about to demand the USA adopt our human rights standards. The United Nations is not about to send peacekeepers. And the leader of the National Rifle Association isn't going to face justice at The Hague any time soon.

Because everyone, everywhere, in America and out will say there's nothing they can do.

Obama will say he's powerless. Americans will say they can't stop the gun lobby. Foreign leaders won't shun the power, money and reflected glory of being friends with America.

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But there is something the rest of us can do.

And it's exactly the same thing we'd do with any other friend who behaved like America does - unable to recall their own principles, and a danger to themselves and others.

Don't go on holiday with them.

Stay at home. Don't visit for business. Shun Disneyland, Sea World and Universal Studios. Steer clear of Splash Mountain and Central Park. Make and keep this pledge for one whole year.

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The US guns and ammo industry is worth a total of about $43billion annually. The US tourism industry, however, was worth $1.7 TRILLION in 2015.

The gun industry accounts for 263,223 jobs nationwide. Tourism accounted last year for 8.1m jobs - one in every 18 Americans relies on our goodwill to pay their mortgage.

America has 318m people and 310m guns. They make 10m new guns every year and export 4% of them to the rest of the world. Many end up on our streets.

About 3.8m Brits holiday there every year. And if we stop visiting, America will have to start taking notice.

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They are a nation that worships the dollar even above their homophobic, racist god.

They preach the universal right to life and liberty yet do nothing about the madmen who do so much to take it away from all of us. They've had 240 years of independence and done nothing but cock it up.

So let's hold them to account. Let's steer clear of the people with guns until they put them down and back away.

Their tourist industry can and could force the gun lobby back under its nasty little rock, and if the Americans won't do it we damned well can.

Turn your back on these maniacs, and see how quickly they rediscover their humanity.