Donald ducks just in time

But can the rest of us still dodge the bullet?

Too soon?

The United States, land of the Second Amendment, of the constitutional right to bear arms, including in most states, military-grade assault rifles, where the most powerful political lobby group in the land is openly and proudly dedicated to the proposition that you will only take their gun from their dead, cold hands; the land of Presidential assassinations—“well, it’s one way to get rid of them,” as Gore Vidal once purred—of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King; the land of Sandy Hook and Columbine High, of Majorie Stoneham Douglas High and other schools and shopping centres beyond account; the land of Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing, of the Boston Marathon bombing, of Centennial Park and the Pittsburgh Synagogue; the land of literal slavery and a War of Independence and a Civil War to boot, whose legally enforced post-war practice of the segregation of blacks and whites was the literal inspiration for Nazi Germany’s ghettoisation o…