THE SHOOTINGS – AT 9:08 A.M. ET:  Readers know that I have what I call the "48-hour rule."  It holds that it takes the left 48 hours after an incident to reorganize and go right back to the party line.

I must commend the left in the wake of the San Bernardino shootings.  They did it in less than a day.  By this morning, on CNN, it was all gun-control all the time.  Terrorism?  Maybe a word or two.  Led by Barack Obama, for whom the word "legacy" is the most important word of all, there'll be a new push for gun control, although we now know that yesterday's shooters were maintaining a military-style arsenal in their home and car, complete with bombs and improvised explosive devices.  Show me the law that could have prevented that.  Show me the law they would have followed.

I certainly don't mean to suggest that there are no steps that we can take to lessen gun violence.  Surely making background checks more effective, and including mental-health histories, are moves in the right direction.  I'd add common-sense steps like requiring safety training and certification for all gun owners.  But the "gun-control solves all" crowd is less interested in practical steps than in showboating.

The very existence of the arsenal inside the shooters' home, and the need for robots to safely examine that home, suggest that terrorism was the likely motive.  It may take time to determine whether the man-and-wife shooter team, killed later by police, were self-radicalized, or were associated with some group.  Let's see if the media stays interested. 

December 3,  2015