Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 1)

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An excerpt from a recent Facebook post from the father of a student at MSD High School…

If reading another long well written blog post is not your thing, here is a short quiz you can use to determine if you are a gun fetishist and a sociopath:

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you rush to the Internet to defend the rights of the weapon?

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, is your first thought that you hope there will be evidence of mental illness? (credit given if its your second thought with your first thought being please let is be a Muslim)

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you run out to buy more military weapons?

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, are you pre-armed with poorly sourced, easily debunked alternative facts in defense of your arsenal?

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you spend time correcting the terminology people use in describing the weapon?

When someone kills a large number of children using a military weapon, do you like to bring up how the long dead founding fathers support your views? (Do you object to a standing army as strenuously as they would? Can you name any of them?)

If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, I would highly recommend you do some serious soul searching. But who are we kidding, you are not capable of that. You would have to have one to be able to search it.

Eric Ronkin (public link, no account or login required)