Trump was nearly assassinated. Where’s the outrage?

Another day, another assassination attempt on a former president who running for office. No big deal. 
That’s not how I feel about the news that a gunman tried to assassinate President Donald Trump on Sunday, but that does seem to be the reaction from a lot of the mainstream media and the Democratic Party.  
After the news broke that a gunman had waited in the bushes at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida for many hours and fled the scene before being chased down by Secret Service agents, you’d think there would be wall-to-wall coverage of a second assassination attempt in two months.  
But there really hasn’t been. At least not as much as I would expect given how serious this is and what normalizing political violence could mean for our country. 
“Who is Ryan Routh? What to know about the suspect in the Trump golf course incident,” a Monday NPR news headline said.  
News outlets were initially cautious in their language as facts unfolded Sunday. But it was clear within hours that an assassination attempt had once again threatened the life of the Republican presidential nominee. It should not be portrayed as merely an incident on a golf course. 
My column: Trump isn’t the real threat to democracy.The would-be assassins trying to kill him are.
Commentators who have expressed disdain for Trump and his views seemed eerily silent in coming to his defense or in calling for more robust security. The New York Times opinion site Wednesday largely ignored an assassination attempt from only three days prior. 
If, God forbid, there had been repeated assassination attempts on President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris, there would be ongoing coverage, outrage, calls for investigations of security procedures and more. 
We do not want a world where political violence seems in any way normalized or brushed off. It should be a nonpartisan issue. Is it? Email me at [email protected].