WHERE ARE THE MAGIC GOOD ANGELS?

WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO ENDORSE WEAPONS THAT ENABLE MASS SHOOTINGS?

I'm paraphrasing here, but I remember some top NRA person, after the Orlando shooting...no wait, after the movie theater...nah, I think it was after the college campus mass slaying...nope, maybe it was after the school kids in the northeast were slaughtered with their teachers, or was it...?

Well, anyway, there are so many people armed to the teeth with weapons fit only for the battleground (not that we're much for wars either), it's hard to remember which idiotic gun lobby statement came after which tragedy.

But the bottom line, is the essence of the press comment after a ton of bloodshed was that if more people were armed with more high powered, automatic weapons, the good people would step in and kill the bad ones.

Like in the historic black church. If just bowed to the NRA, the good angel snipers would have been in the wings...they'd have instantly detected a crazy/bigoted person and picked him off. No good, everyday people slain in their pews.

I called B.S. on the statement when I read it.  But I gave it the benefit of the doubt.  Who am I, a mere mortal who would like to live in a world where half of everybody doesn't have a military arsenal in their attic.

Maybe I'm the crazy one. Maybe if the gun manufacturers could have one more year of record profits, then maybe these good sniper angels would bless us with their appearance.

But now my home state of Florida has had two nightclub mass shootings in the space of two months. And the rest of our major cities have drug dealers, jilted lovers, troubled loners and alienated young men ready to fire off a few dozen rounds from assault weapons...when something really life-threatening happens, like a friend cracks a joke about your mom, your girlfriend, your ride, your height, your clothes.

I'm just failing to see these NRA-anointed good angels. Surely, if they exist, they would have emerged from the heavens to for non-lethal shots at the hands of all the people who take up arms when they're having a really crappy day.

You know, the kind of people who -- back before we had assault weapons flooding the market -- would have given somebody a bloody nose, been fired, arrested and sent home.

Clearly, life is so much better now with dozens pierced to pieces in a hail of gunfire than one person sporting a shiner and the short fused person suffering the consequences.

So perhaps the next time somebody takes out dozens...it's only a matter of days...those magic NRA good angels will get off their duffs and fulfill their promised mission.

Or are there no angels?

Perhaps it's simply a failed PR campaign.  But it hasn't failed because a majority of our Senators and Representatives are too far in bed with the gun lobby that the insane good angel sniper theory actually sounds logical to them?

I'm starting to fear those magic NRA angels don't exist.

Maybe we are surrounded by devils.

And the smallest percentage of devils are those who actually pull the trigger.

The vast majority of devils are gun nuts, gun manufacturers, gun dealers and gun-happy legislators all too happy to ride the guns and bullets gravy train.

Maybe there never were any magic good angel snipers.

Maybe only greed- and power-motivated devils.