Distinguishing Good People From Bad People

YESTERDAY'S EPISODE of the great American slaughter saga was perpetrated by good people, not bad people. There are, according to conservative pseudo intellectuals, two kinds of people: good, and bad. Give handguns to all the good people, and keep guns away from all the bad people, problem solved. Anyone who goes astray in public, and waxes violent, and starts to spray bullets randomly, will instantly be gunned down by a good Samaritan - gun toting - good person before he or she bad person can reload. The fact that we are all both good and bad, and can turn the switch on and off in a heartbeat never crosses the minds of conservative intellectuals; its one, or the other, period. But again, the married couple with good records, good jobs, and a six month old daughter obtained their weapons legally, because they were good people, good people who mysteriously turned bad. Oh, but they were Muslims! Hint: that does not make them bad people, any more than being christian makes someone a good person. Again, they had perfect records, good jobs, were lawfully married, had started a family - and then blew away fourteen people and wounded seventeen others without the slightest trace of warning. Sometimes bad people are well disguised as good people, and nobody but nobody can tell the difference. Otherwise, the married couple would never have been issued firearm licenses. So much for the theories of conservative intellectuals. There are more guns than people in the United states of Ammunition. Thousands of people die each year from gun violence in America, half of them are suicides. Whether they are good people or bad people becomes moot. If the federal government decided to take away all civilian guns, all the gun toting christian conservatives would doubtless die defending their right to defend themselves, as they claim they would. and the ATF would perhaps be happy to assist. Jesus, guns, and money, defended unto death, in the cold dead hands of america's most righteous.