Another week, another mass shooting in America. This one was less than half as deadly as Las Vegas, but it did break the Texas record. Yee-haw!
The gunman grew up in a $1 million house (which is a lot less common there than here) in the San Antonio suburbs, joined the Air Force, was kicked out for beating his wife and ended his short, less-than-useless life by taking 26 innocent people with him on his short detour before meeting the devil face-to-face.
UPDATE: CNN is reporting that the gunman had threatened his ex-mother-in-law, who sometimes attended the church he targeted but was not there Sunday.
Cue the usual excuses, only this time make them more nauseating.
Our bald president responded quickly — in the Far East he’s awake at 3 p.m. instead of 3 a.m. — by giving Conservative Response 4-A: It’s a mental-health issue. Beyond the irony of Orange Baldy talking about someone else’s mental health, it’s the most easily dismissed bit of idiocy the right has ever coughed up about guns: Mental health problems are universal among humans, obviously, while mass shootings are common only to America and war zones.
“The Rev.” Robert Jeffress, whom Jesus would not piss on if he were on fire, told Fox that such a shooting would never happen in his church, because half his congregation is packing in the pews. Yee-haw!
Most deranged and disgusting was the response from Kellyanne Conway, who said she was “really happy at times like this,” that Trump is president. Not happy to stop at one lie, she continued, “People are taking to Twitter in the comfort of their very luxurious lives, pointing fingers, and as far as I can tell, never really helping in between the tweet storms. Never really helped charities, never helped people to heal, never try to reach across for understanding.”
You’ll notice she never said whether the people she’s talking about are Democrats or Republicans.