If you were making a movie about the underdog politician campaigning on soaring crime rates, you couldn’t have scripted it better than the shooting right in front of Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home Sunday afternoon. Of course, it’s the last thing the Republican gubernatorial candidate and his wife, Diana, could ever have wanted. Their twin 16-year-old daughters, Mikayla and Arianna, were home alone studying in the rear kitchen of the modest two-story house in the town of Shirley when they heard gunshots and screams right outside their front door. The quick-thinking girls raced upstairs, locked themselves in a bathroom and...