If your first reaction to shootings is.....

[Straw Man]

49. A meaningless truism.

If people didn't have guns,

these mass shootings wouldn't occur.

I don't give a flying fuck if I'm "validating" the notion that Obamas coming for your guns. SOMEONE needs to be coming for their guns. Otherwise, the daily slaughter of innocents is just fine, business as usual, nothing to see here.

Your fervent belief that confiscating all the guns in America would end murder, suicide, and accidental death would merely be charmingly naive if the political consequences were not so dire. Apparently you're willing to risk ceding the White House and Congress forever to the Republican Party and bringing this country to the brink of civil war in pursuit of your imagined gun-free Nirvana.

And to those of you who ask I (piously) if I'm willing to go door to door to confiscate the guns, I say, Hell, yes. Besides, think of all the jobs that would be created. How is that a bad thing?

Create jobs? Yes, in highly militarized police departments. Better start practicing lobbing flash-bang grenades and battering down doors. You'll also need to be handy with tasers and, yes, firearms.

Are you starting to get a whiff of the irony here?