But the only time some of these politicians get really interested is when it is a Muslim doing the shooting, as if they are the ones who keep lighting us up, and not our fellow Americans. This is a country where we have always been taught to reach for the sky. Now people just duck for cover. All these politicians talk about keeping us safe from ISIS. But how are they going to do that when they can't keep us safe from each other? And imagine what the reaction would have been in American politics if the shooter in Dallas had pledged his allegiance to Allah, instead of the United States government, which he once did with the U.S. Army.