Where’s that darned Clarence Dupnik now that he’s really needed? You remember Dupnik, don’t you? He’s the sheriff of Pima County, Ariz. In 2010, he made the news by loudly and proudly proclaiming that he wouldn’t enforce Arizona’s SB 1070, the law that allows the state’s cops to inquire about the immigration status of anyone they legally detain if there is reasonable suspicion to believe they’re in the country illegally.

In January, a man shot up a supermarket where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting her constituents. Giffords and more than a dozen others were wounded, and six people died.