I always thought mass killings were illegal. Myth?

Unless, you know, the NYPD or a major government does it. Then it’s cool – I know that. But I always thought it would be illegal for you or me to go out and mow down a lot of people with our “semi-automatics hand guns that shoot 32 bullets at a time – in under 15 seconds” (sicsicsic).

According to this “gun facts” post from the National Gun Victims Action Council, not so much.

As our population is 5 times that of England’s (300 million vs. 60 million) we should expect 5 times their gun homicides each year or 375. In fact, because our gun laws are not sane, we have 12,000 each year. But in our country, not only do criminals have all the guns they want*, but so do the law-abiding citizens.

There is only one explanation for these facts: It is the law-abiding citizens with guns, not the criminals, who are committing the majority of the gun homicides. Each of the recent high-profile gun massacres (Virginia Tech, Ft. Hood, Tucson, Aurora, Oikos University and the Sikh Mosque) was committed a law abiding citizen—not one was from the hand of a criminal.

We would have a fraction of the gun homicides we have if only the criminals had guns.

The emphasis is theirs. Seriously.

Of course this is coming from the same people who claim (again, I’m not the one making this up) that “Guns go off accidentally … and in certain cases go through the plane’s fuselage causing everyone to be ejected from the plane due to explosive decompression,” and “a checked gun can be remotely fired using a cell phone.”

With facts like that on their side, it’s no wonder they’re doing as well as they are in their war against guns.