Bob Franken: Unstable Fantasy Patriots

One can only guess that 66-year-old James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, had decided that he needed to be a hero and single-handedly rescue his country from the malevolent forces that had taken control. Instead, history will remember him as a pathetic man whose final act was the work not of a hero, but of a murderous coward. Yes, a coward, as is anyone who turns to a firearm to express his rage. And fear.

This is not another discussion about our passionate attachment to guns in this nation. That battle for sanity has been lost, which means that any person who is consumed by personal de...