IT’S COME TO THIS: Off Duty Sheriff Deputies and Ordinary Citizens Guard Armed Forces Recruiting Centers in Ohio. “We are happy to report that in Wayne County such radicals not only must consider encountering armed law enforcement, but armed citizens as well.”

Via Facebook, I hear that civilians showed up to guard the recruiting center in Maryville, TN, too — a suburb of Knoxville — but I haven’t seen anything on local media about it. I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, I like it that civilians are self-organizing to respond to the federal government’s manifest inability to deal with a problem. On the other hand, there’s the federal government’s manifest inability to deal with a problem. . . .