And so this is Christmas

If the Massie family likes to go hunting, well, not my jam, but let them.

But I do have a couple of questions for Thomas Massie, R-KY - make that RWNJ-K - who's offering his season's greetings with this family photo, along with the snappy caption: Merry Christmas!🎄 ps. Santa, please bring ammo.🎁

Where to begin...

First off, I have a pretty strong suspicion that Rep. Massie is one of those pols who spends plenty of time yelping about all those rotten libruls who don't want anyone saying Merry Christmas. One of those pols who celebrated the election of Trump for many reasons, not the least of which is was now okay to say Merry Christmas again. As if showing a little consideration to those who don't celebrate Christmas, but who do participate in seasonal events that mark the year's end, as plenty of cultures do, means I can't bellow Merry Christmas to those I know (or at least suspect) to be Christians - active or fallen away; agnostic, atheist, or true believer - who celebrate Christmas for reasons religious and/or secular.

And aren't people like Massie always carping about the 'reason for the season,' 'keep Christ in Christmas,' etc. Aren't they the ones who really don't approve of the separation of church and state?

So what about the birth of Christ suggests guns? 

Not that I'm any expert, but the Christ I learned about was a man of peace. (Blessed are the peacemakers, no?) He could, of course, display righteous anger when needs be, and I can picture him taking his whip made of cords and lashing out at the gun toters in our midst. But fundamentally, Christ was pro-peace. 

I'm no expert on guns, either, but the piece that Massie is holding doesn't appear to be the wholesome, sporty hunting rifle that one might expect under the tree in a wholesome, sporty hunting household. What he's cradling in his arms appears to be a weapon of war, used for mowing down humans, not shooting Bambi's mother for the venison steaks.

WWJD? I'm pretty sure he wouldn't approve.

And that would be during a normal Christmas season.

I'm pretty sure that Jesus Christ would really not approve of this picture coming in the wake of the massacre of four high school kids in Oxford, Michigan, by a classmate who'd been given a high-powered hand gun for Christmas. 

Wasn't Christ about suffering the little children? Not having the little children suffer.

And wouldn't a normal, decent person be so heartsick over this terrible incident that he might hold back a few weeks before blasting this out?

But no.

And that "please bring ammo" chaser?

Is Thomas Massie the only person in America who isn't aware that the Oxford gunman - make that gunboy: Ethan Crumbley is only 15 - had been caught by a teacher a day or so before the masscre googling for ammo on his smartphone? (The school tried to contact the mother over this disturbing incident, but she ignored their email and phone call. Instead, Jennifer Crumbley texted her son: "LOL. I'm not mad at your. You have to learn not to get caught.")

So doesn't Massie's "please bring ammo" bit seem a bit unseemly, inappropriate, not particularly funny?

Massie has come in for plenty of richly-deserved criticism. Predictably, he's taking (metaphorical) aim on his critics and has come out (metaphorically - so far at least) blasting at them for overreacting, for linking the picture to the Michigan murders. (Gee, who could possible make any connection here??) 

His real Christmas card, Massie notes, is the family posed with their musical instruments. They just thought doing a version with guns to show off their other great family togetherness activity would be fun. 

... I crossed guns with family and Christmas, and those are three things that really could trigger the leftists, and I didn't realize that it would be such an explosive cocktail when you put it together. But it adds up to freedom." (Source: Courier-Journal)

Freedom for you, maybe. 

But what about the kids in Oxford? Where's the freedom for
Hana St. Juliana, 14; Tate Myre, 16; Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Justin Shilling, 17?

Next week marks the ninth anniversary of the Shady Hook killings, when 20 sweet little kiddos between the ages of six  and seven were murdered. If they'd lived, they'd be roughly the same ages as the four sweet big kiddos killed in Michigan. Four sweet big kiddos who grew up with active shooter drills. Who grew up knowing that at any time, you could be killed while at school.

Unfathomable...

But, yeah, by all means, make sure the world knows that you and your family are packing, and that Santa should drop some ammo down the chimney. Might work if there's no fire going.

And if Thomas Massie needs to source ammo, he can always ask Ethan Crumbley. He may have been able to complete his search before that nosy teacher interrupted him.

Seriously, who the F are we?