When Two or Three are Gathered, Be Sure to Bring Your Gun

The attorney general for the Christian state of Texas has reacted with admirable forthrightness to the worst mass shooting in the state's recent history; which also happens to be the worst massacre at a place of worship in the history of the country. Taking to its logical conclusion the NRA Holy Writ which states that the way to stop people shooting each other is for people to shoot each other more righteously, Ken Paxton (Republican - imagine that) urged all good Christian folks to attend church with concealed weapons, the better to prevent any unnecessary unpleasantness. One or two people have argued that violence and Christianity are incompatible, although it is a little unclear which precedents from the history of Christianity or the history of the United States they are invoking. Meanwhile, the Trumpster and his hydrophobic head-tribble have confirmed the religious status of the event by declaring it ex cathedra a mental health issue. It is well known that American mass killers are necessarily psychologically disturbed whenever Islam and melanin are not prominently involved; but only the will of a whimsical God can possibly explain such a regrettable occurrence so soon after the Trumpster and his hydrophobic head-tribble removed the Obama administration's safeguards against the sale of guns to the mentally disturbed.