What Will It Take to Keep America Safe and Free?

It was midday a week ago Saturday when Daryus Clarke was doing his job as a clerk at the Plug Smoke Shop in Queens, New York.

Three individuals dressed entirely in black walked into the store. One had a gun.

As reported by CBS New York, they took "$100 in cash and $50 worth of merchandise ... and shot Clarke in the chest." Clarke died from this wound.

The next day, just before midnight, as reported by the New York Post, an argument broke out at a delicatessen in the Bronx. It...