Will the real militia do its job?

Marysville-Pilchuck High School will be closed this week to give the community time to recover from the shooting on Friday, when the school’s 14-year-old homecoming prince shot two boys, three girls, and then himself.

He and one of the girls died in the cafeteria. The second girl died Sunday evening.

It confounded everybody because the kid with the gun, Jaylen Fryberg, was not an outcast. He was into sports. He was on the football team. He was the homecoming prince, and he came from a large and respected family.

The one red flag seems to be a series of tweets indicating he was angry over, what friends say was, a relationship with a girl gone wrong.

I realize that what happened Friday isn’t what is typically described of as terrorism. But how is it really different from the lone wolf attacks we’re endlessly being warned about?

Today’s schools even drill for it the way my school drilled for nuclear war in the 1960’s.

But here’s the good news: We don’t need drones and bombers to stop this kind of terrorism, because we already have boots on the ground.

The Second Amendment calls them, “the well regulated Militia.” They’re the responsible gun owners who are truly serious about weapons and would never allow a .40-calliber handgun to fall into the hands of a thief, a person with mental illness, or a child of 14.

They would support punishing the irresponsible gun owners who do let that happen. I keep hearing that the responsible gun owners vastly outnumber the irresponsible gun owners, so if they took a stand, who could stop them?