Except for what appears'thank God'to be only a minor injury to a Secret Service officer who was shot near a security checkpoint, no one was hurt at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner last night. News reports are reassembling the mosaic of the attacker's movements; he apparently took a train and transported some weapons with him, checked into the hotel, and then made his run at the event. These are the basic contours of all that we know, and it will take time for more credible information to emerge. In the meantime, the vacuum of facts has been filled by a certain amount of hysteria and the usual conspiracy theories, as well as understandable demands to make changes so that such a thing can never happen again. The people who were at the event are understandably shaken. Other Americans need not panic, but unfortunately, here is the list of things we can do, right now, to prevent similar attacks in the future: nothing. Well, almost nothing. One solution is to stop...
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