That’s just one of many bracing statements made by PBS’s Bill Moyers in this video that was released a few days ago but that I’m sharing now, one week after the Aurora massacre.

Another stretch of words that deserve to be spelled out: Moyers’ description of the NRA as “the enabler of death—paranoid, delusional, and as venomous as a scorpion.”

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...