California’s horrific terror attack has laid bare the Obama administration’s implicit failures in securing the homeland. Instead of seriously addressing America’s woeful lack of border security, overstayed visas and a refugee program which all but ignores the potential for jihadist infiltration, the president’s knee-jerk reaction to the latest mass shooting is to invoke once again the old Democratic shibboleth that more gun-control solves crime.

Forget for a moment that California already has the strictest gun-control laws in the nation — the evidence on gun control and mass shootings is in fact all over the map. For example, the United States has a lower rate of mass shooting fatalities per 100,000 people than Norway, Finland and Switzerland.*