Solutions seem miles away in recent headline shootings

Timing is everything, it is said.

And the timing of author Heather MacDonald’s recently released book, “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe,” is tragically so.

The recent epidemic of those taking out their frustrations on law enforcement with the rash of murders of police officers, has made MacDonald’s book an off-the-charts best seller with an Amazon waiting list of up to two months.

It’s also made MacDonald, a widely read author of articles in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and New Republic one of the nati...