Asked about the cold-blooded murder of (so far) 26 worshippers Sunday in the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, the president performed an act of psychological diagnosis that, while it feels true, he was unqualified to give and which, even if true, does little to make our nation safer.
On one level, it seems intuitive to conclude that no sane person would walk into a church and open fire on defenseless people of all ages.
But, unless one wishes to suggest that the United States houses many times its fair share of insane people, the fact that the United States far outstrips the rest of the world in the number of shootings, mass and otherwise, cannot be dismissed as an issue of mental health.