Since the frightening assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, I have heard many people utter phrases like, “This is not who we are,” and, “This is not our country.” In a nation where there aremore guns than people; where a door prize at the Republican National Convention is a Daniel Defense AR-15, offered by the U.S. Concealed Carry Association; and, where mass murders of school children does not move Congress to pass meaningful gun control legislation, I sadly conclude that this is exactly who we are as a nation. Rather than ask whether the Secret Service did its job of protec…