“Good Guy” or “Bad Guy”, The Operative Is “With A Gun”

After the latest mass shooting, the Gun Nuts have been all over screaming how a “Good Guy With A Gun” killed a “Bad Guy With A Gun”.

Great. That happened in one shooting out of over 400 mass shootings in this country in a single year. Yet the Gun Nuts are going to scream how this means we need more guns in a nation where guns outnumber human beings.

First, let me as the same questions I have asked countless times: HOW MANY more guns will it take for us to be safer? HOW MANY guns will it take before mass shootings number fewer than the days of the year? How many until we have fewer than one mass shooting in a month?

I’m not expecting an answer. I expect diversion from that subject. I expect the same ad hominem regurgitated, memorized, mindless responses that always follow like a recording set on “repeat”.

More than that. I expect threats. Because nothing says gun rights like death threats. Way to change my mind.

Obviously, the responses are what are truly disturbing. Even online, the tone of the responses are explicitly intended to be aggressive and intimidating. You can picture the Gun Nuts being in a room when the discussion comes up, screaming, waving firearms in the air and under your nose while claiming they need their guns in “self defense”. They are the exact people you would be most fearful of to initiate a mass shooting of unarmed civilians.