One wonders whether Sen. Christopher Murphy, a progressive Democrat from Connecticut, grasps the point of having a constitution.

Discussing the atrocious school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two teachers were murdered, he bemoaned the apparent inability of Congress to “do something!” about mass shootings in schools. “When people give up on us dealing with the most important and most existential issues, it means they’re giving up on democracy itself,” he told the New York Times. “And so I think the stakes are high — not just because we’ve got to save lives but also because people’s faith in this whole enterprise is going to disappear if we can’t deliver.”