This weekend, we experienced hate-fueled violence when a deranged stabber slashed Hanukkah worshippers inside a Monsey, New York, Hasidic rabbi’s residence. Then, a shotgun-wielding madman attacked church worshippers in White Settlement, Texas, before a concealed-carrying former sheriff’s deputy hero neutralized the threat with one well-aimed pistol shot.

The violence fully reopened the partisan gun control debate that typically accompanies tragic shootings.