Mr. Trump´s remarks after the vicious and brutish murder of young adults by Nicolás Cruz in Parkland, Florida are again evidence of the ethical mediocrity in residence in the White House. He insinuates that Mr. Cruz and others like him are mad. Of course they are an exception. The president defends the patriotic fervor of the devotion to a cause so dear to the hearts of those who see an armed mob of skunk hunters as a first line of national defense. I wonder what the survivors in towns like Parkland would vote in a referendum on gun control? Really, Donald, fleeing from the question into absurdities does you no favor.