I don’t know why I try to write anything in earnest when the Onion does a much better job with a joke:

“While Loughner is clearly a deranged madman who, with this heinous, tragic act, has proved to be a danger to himself and others, he has not explicitly violated any statutes currently on the books in Arizona,” Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall said of the man whom witnesses saw murdering a 9-year-old girl and a federal judge. “We can only hope that if he acts out again, another Arizona citizen will be legally carrying a concealed firearm and be able to stop him.” LaWall told reporters that the only way her state would have any legal recourse in the brutal slayings would be if Loughner were Mexican.