Guns, God and background checks

I happened to be sitting in the Fox News bureau between “hits” on Tuesday morning, when the news broke about the stabbing at Lone Star College in Houston. Watching it unfold in real time, I couldn’t help but think (as I’m sure all of us did) about the Newtown, Conn., massacre and the families flying to Washington and the fear that the parents of the Texas college students must be feeling.

The difference, of course, is that no one died in Texas. The perpetrator had a small knife, not a gun.

In interviews being conducted by the local affiliate at the scene, two students described what it was lik...