Glenn Beck began his television program last night with coverage of yesterday's mass shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, citing it along with the record flooding happening in Colorado as evidence that we are living in the End Times.
"It seems like a lot of things that are going on in today's world," Beck said, "can't really be explained any other way. We have come unhinged."
But perhaps it is simply Beck who has become unhinged, as later in the program he did a segment asking why various federal agencies, such as the IRS and the EPA, have armed officers using assault weapons, suggesting not-quite-rhetorically that they were going to be used to kill American citizens: