Time to Reconsider a Deadly, Ill-Thought-Out Law.

Doing bad by doing good.

IQ-challenged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose life long ambition is to be clever, had another crack at it today, this time concerning the latest slaughter in a public school.

Regrettably, Ocasio-Cortez fails to specify the laws permitting children and others be shot, a pity as your Tatler would love to have a look at them. One wonders though how such draconian laws might possibly survive the scrutiny of the courts: 5th Amendment problems to begin with, e.g., deprivation of liberty, due process and all that. We’ll just have to pass on that claim without further details.

We’ll also have to pass on the expression, “idolatry of violence.” Not quite understanding the meaning of it, your correspondent did some Internet research and found its earliest appearance was in 2012 and apparently is used exclusively by gun-control advocates, including bishops of the Episcopal Church. Unfortunately, none of the advocates explain just what the expression means, though it certainly sounds catchy. We’ll have to pass on that as well.

Since however Ocasio-Cortez, like so many on the left, is prone to using tropes, your Tatler will use one too, one he has used many times over the years. The Texas school where the carnage took place yesterday was subject to the Federal Gun-Free Zone Act, which prohibits students, administrators and security personnel from carrying guns in a public school and within 1000 feet of it. Such was the case yesterday at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and the law was, in a way, a brilliant success; among the 500 pupils, dozens of teachers, staffers and security guards, just one person was carrying a gun. Of course, if adherence to the law had lapsed only a little yesterday, and but one teacher, staffer or security guard had also been carrying, we might not today be reading of the heartbreaking carnage.