Against all enemies, foreign and domestic

There have been 27 school shootings in America so far this year. In 2020 there were 612 shootings involving three or more people. In 2020 America experienced 45,222-gun deaths. The U.S. averages more than 20 shootings involving 10 or more people (mass shootings) a year. The victims are white, Black, Asian, Latino, Christian, Jew, Muslim, men, women and children. Who are these people? They are all of America, they are us.

There are varying polls, but by any measure more than 75% of Americans, including a large majority of gun owners, support universal background checks. More than a year ago the...