This is perhaps too polite for my taste, but it makes the point.

UPDATE:  And a good column on the child-killing lobby:

After the Aurora killings, I did a few debates with advocates for the  child-killing lobby—sorry, the gun lobby—and, without exception and with a mad  vehemence, they told the same old lies: it doesn’t happen here more often than  elsewhere (yes, it does); more people are protected by guns than killed by them  (no, they aren’t—that’s a flat-out fabrication); guns don’t kill people, people  do; and all the other perverted lies that people who can only be called knowing  accessories to murder continue to repeat, people who are in their own way every  bit as twisted and crazy as the killers whom they defend….

So let’s state the plain facts one more time, so that they can’t be mistaken:  Gun massacres have happened many times in many countries, and in every other  country, gun laws have been tightened to reflect the tragedy and the tragic  knowledge of its citizens afterward. In every other country, gun massacres have  subsequently become rare. In America alone, gun massacres, most often of  children, happen with hideous regularity, and they happen with hideous  regularity because guns are hideously and regularly available. 

The people who fight and lobby and legislate to make guns regularly available  are complicit in the murder of those children.

ANOTHER:  Here is historian Juan Cole (Michigan):

Why don’t the news anchors or discussants ever bring up the simple fact that between 1994 and 2004, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994: The Federal Assault Weapons Ban prohibited assault weapons?  The prohibition was not unconstitutional.  Congress foolishly put in a 10-year sunset provision, and of course Bush and his Republican Congress allowed it to expire.

Why doesn’t anyone blame George W. Bush for these mass shootings?  He’s the one who led the charge to let the assault weapons ban expire.  Why aren’t the politicians in Congress who take campaign money from assault weapons manufacturers ever held accountable by the public?

Why don’t the news programs bring up the reported moves of Sen. Diane Feinstein to prepare new legislation banning assault weapons and their accoutrements?  Are they so afraid of the NRA that they can’t even discuss the legislative process in public?

What in the world does the 2nd amendment have to do with these incidents?  Do they look like a “well-regulated militia” to you?  Semi-automatic weapons are the 18th-century equivalent of artillery in terms of their ability to kill.  Do you think people should be allowed to have artillery pieces in their back yards, too?   Is this some sort of sick joke, that you are telling us our children have to die because the Founding Fathers wanted madmen to have high-powered weaponry?

Why does complaining about semi-automatic weapons  (and the means to make ordinary guns semi-automatic by attaching e.g. ammunition drums) being freely available always devolve into an argument about gun control and hunting?  No one minds if people buy rifles to shoot deer with in the countryside.  An ordinary, non-automatic rifle can’t produce a mass killing like that in Connecticut because it cannot get off so many rounds so quickly.  Nobody hunts with an automatic pistol, and if they do, they should be publicly shamed by, like a group of hot girls calling them wusses as they set off in their hunting jackets. 

LONGTIME READER Jason Walta writes:

Not that we need any more evidence to prove that Glenn Reynolds is a moral monster, but the the beginning of his piece in USAToday really takes the cake:

    "After a shooting spree," author William Burroughs once said, "they always want to     take the guns away from the people who didn't do it." Burroughs continued: "I sure     as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are     the police and the military."

Mr. Walta adds:  "Burroughs famously killed his own wife by shooting her in the head while drunk. In the words of the Jezebel article you cited earlier, Fuck Glenn Reynolds."