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There was another school massacre yesterday in Nashville, three children and three adults, and the Christians In Name Only are out and about like earthworms after a rainstorm.   That's Governor Bill Lee signing a no-permit carry law at the Beretta factory.  Big smiles, y'all!  Love the slogan.

Here's a longer but no less amazing one:  "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference -- they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."  It's an unattributed quote from the Christmas card of the Ogles family -- he's yet another Tennessee Republican -- and it accompanied this heartwarming photo:

Maybe Ogles himself, or maybe the late great Charlton Heston, as Trump would say.  (Is the little one holding a box of festive ammo?)  Ogles is a freshman, so his family hasn't quite mastered the manic grins of the Massies of neighboring Kentucky:

Of course, the kids are older and maybe have recorded their first "kills."  Is that a bazooka?

Once they learn to do tricks with their guns, Daddy can run for higher office -- say, the Senate.  Here's candidate Ted Cruz frying up some AR-15 bacon at a campaign event.  Australian TV can hardly believe it.

Of course Tennessee already has two senators, so you'd have to muscle past them.  Here's Marsha Blackburn on yesterday's shooting:

"Chuck & I are heartbroken to hear about the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville that was enabled by NRA puppets like me who are willing to let kids be fucking slaughtered so long as the NRA continues giving me millions."

Oh, I'm sorry, that's not from Senator Blackburn.  She tweeted the customary thoughts and prayers.  The above is what David Hogg thought she should have said.  He's been in a bad mood ever since Nikolas Cruz murdered seventeen of his schoolmates and teachers.  I'll bet that gun was hot enough to fry Spam!

As if guns and religion were insufficiently linked, the Nashville shooting occurred in a Presbyterian school and seems to have been carried out by a 28-year-old former student who identified as transgender and may have had a hard time there.  (She was also described as "high-functioning autistic.")  States like Tennessee are determined that LGBTQ people have a hard time everywhere, while putting guns in their hands with no need for a permit (see above) and then acting shocked.  Everyone who was bullied in school -- and as we know from A Christmas Story you're either a bully, a toady or one of the nameless rabble of victims -- at least thinks about vengeance.  It's been a feature of most school shootings at least since Columbine.  In the days to come we will hear a lot about mental health issues, including how mad a country must be to make guns easier to obtain than tampons.  Apparently school prayer is not the solution the NRA puppets would have us believe.     

As Ogle, Massie and their caucus redouble their efforts to have the AR-15 proclaimed America's Weapon, the Washington Post has an article on what this gadget does to the human body.  It will not shock anyone who has been deployed to a war zone or close students of the Zapruder film.  (I know, that was a Mannlicher-Carcano.)  Others should approach with caution.  Most of the House need not bother.  Nothing will change, except the Christians will have another excuse for slandering the transgendered.  

Prayers.  Not thoughts.  They're not compatible.