Overnight, Australian time, President Obama has paid an official visit to Dallas in the wake of the five fatal shootings of police officers there last week.
His response to the killings has been to attribute the attacks to mental illness.
The tragedy brought together two deeply divisive and apparently intractable social problems that confront the US: racial violence and gun crime.
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