Sometimes, those of us left in the common sense majority ask how things could go so wrong – how consensually accepted notions of justice could be scuttled so quickly—how respect for the rule of law could have fallen so low—that a major American city would find it acceptable to provide safe passage to an illegal alien who had been deported on five previous occasions.

Such is the reality check presented in the matter of thirty-two-year-old Kate Steinle, the mother of two brutally gunned down by one Francisco Sanchez, a Mexican citizen living freely on the streets because of San Francisco’s self-proclaimed “sanctuary” status—a state of affairs that mandates lack of cooperation with federal officials charged with enforcing the country’s immigration laws because…they…can.