Jackie Calmes: Americans are living in fear of gun violence. And we don't have security like Ted Cruz

Spurred by rising violence with firearms, the nation began work to write into law "the strongest gun control measures in over 40 years."

Alas for Americans, that nation is Canada.

Here in the United States, we've had three massacres in under three weeks — in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma. And those are just the worst of 37 mass shootings in that short time.