The need for increased security seems to expand daily for government, religious and other institutions. There is an increasing collective sense that prominent individuals of various types are targeted and vulnerable.

The recent murders of political commentator Charlie Kirk, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan, a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, and Catholic school students in Minneapolis, all leap most horridly to mind. Yet they are only the latest episodes in a grim wave of violence that marks a recurring ugly streak in American culture.

We cannot let it continue.

Federal lawmakers are not about to relitigate the exceptional permissiveness of our gun laws. Sadly, sensible voices for rejecting hyperbole, inflamed by social media, which can trigger t

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