School Shootings Confirm Guns Are the Religion of the Right

Sometimes calls for America to return to God are couched in the language of consolation. Especially after a mass shooting. When 19 children were killed at school in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, tweeted that "It is in times like these that we should, as individuals, communities, and as a nation, turn to God for comfort and healing." Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia followed deflection -- "Our nation needs to take a serious look at the state of mental health today" -- with denial: "We don't need more gun control We need to return to God."