Nerviano Another Sunday Mass.
This time, a gay Florida nightclub, where 50 people were shot to death and another 50 wounded (by conservative estimate) today.
There’s no reason to expect this shooting to unfold any differently than, say, the Sunday Mass in Charleston.
The sane will say this needs to stop. The confederacy of dunces shall take up arms. And it will dissipate into name-calling in the Twitterverse like so many roman candles on a July 4 eve.
But one day, shootings like this will ricochet back into the TNT bin. It has to, simply by the law of averages.
Because, unlike a Baptist church or elementary school, the Florida shooting puts the right to bear arms in the crosshairs of the right to build walls.
After all, deporting American Muslims is suddenly a presidential issue, yes Mr. Trump? I’m assuming deportations must be preceded by the disarming of Americans, as the Second Amendment makes no mention of race.
Those fears are about to share a dance card.
In the meantime, where’s the Bernie Sanders-like enthusiasm for liberal intervention? Not even a unified call to get a national learner’s permit, like a car? Maybe that doesn’t reach the right demographic.
But one day, shootings like this will. Two centuries of U.S. democracy suggest that. From women’s rights to civil rights to the gay rights literally under fire about 2 a.m. today, the branches of justice eventually, inexorably, lean left.
It’s simply a matter of time before they provide ample cover.
