We see historic churches get shot up in Charleston and a community college get shot up in Oregon and a Planned Parenthood Clinic get shot up in Colorado. But somehow all of those shootings are treated like the normal cost of the gun business in America. This is before the candidates start screaming again about protecting the Second Amendment, as if the Second Amendment was as much at risk as Caroline Previdi was after being dropped off at Sandy Hook Elementary three years ago.

But when a couple of good jihadists doing the shooting with their Adam Lanza guns in San Bernardino, that gets the blood boiling on the Republican campaign trail, does it ever. It is so much easier to get tough with a religion than the high church of gun manufacturers whose sales just keep going up, as the number of guns in private hands in this country becomes as insane as any statistic of American life.

Still they all hide behind the Second Amendment, which will eventually kill more Americans than ISIS ever will.

“No one would say that wasn’t a terrorist attack in San Bernardino,” the man outside St. Rose of Lima says. “But so was what happened to us.”