A 20-year-old man with a rifle, perched atop a nearby roof, fired several rounds July 13 at Donald Trump as the former president spoke at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one attendee and wounding at least two others.
As we know now, one round nicked Trump’s right ear and he avoided a serious wound or death with a fortuitous head turn that moved him out of the bullet’s path at the last second.
Almost immediately, some gun control activists saw the attempted assassination as an opportunity to call for their wish list of more restrictions on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Talk about missing the point.
If the government can’t protect the former (and possibly future) president of the United States from a single, highly motivated amateur bent on violence, it certainly can’t protect ordinary Americans from every potential threat at all times and in all places. Nor should we want to live in a police state that is remotely capable of offering such assurances of our physical safety. […]
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