It's a cultural war, no hold barred, each side trying to bludgeon the other with anything at hand. Liberals, believing they're in the ascendancy, are flogging Orlando as a national curse, not an aberration.

The liberal NYT and other distinguished media, bolstered by influential personages of the Republican Party itself, are using unprecedented mass killings and the exacerbating rhetoric of the heir presumptive to bring him down.

Personally, I wondered what form and how long it would take Orlando to appear on this mostly conservative forum. Technical and moral musing seemed thin gruel to mitigate another threat of gun control.