A Well-Regulated Militia

Despite the Trumpster and his cohorts loudly and repeatedly denouncing political opponents as traitors and abortionists as murderers, and even despite the ready availability of firearms across the Land of the Free, it appears that someone in Minnesota may have suffered some slight loss of perspective on the situation. Two Democratic politicians and their spouses have been shot, with one couple killed and the other seriously injured; and the suspect allegedly had a list of targets including reproductive health clinics and coathanger-unfriendly politicians. Perhaps because the Democratic trumping of the birthday emperor's famous bleeding earlobe has provoked a measure of genuine chagrin, the White House has managed thus far to refrain from any overt gloating.