This weekend brought us yet another terrible mass shooting. This time it was in a Baptist Church in Texas that at least 26 people were gunned down with a variant of the AR-15. This is a horrific tragedy, and just the latest reminder that we need gun safety measures in this country and we need it soon. Mass shootings aren't earthquakes. They don't happen to us, because they're beyond our control, no. Mass shootings happen over and over again, because we refuse to do anything about our nation's horrific gun problem. And yet every time one of these events happens, we are told that it is disrespectful to the victims of these crimes to talk about gun control. Instead we are told to send "thoughts and prayers," which is a nice way of saying "do nothing and do nothing."

Well, I've never found that "disrespect" argument very compelling, but what I do find disrespectful is what Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt said of the shooting today. Earhardt and her cohorts were interviewing Texas governor Greg Abbott when she expressed a silver lining that she found in the news. And if the notion of finding s silver lining in a mass shooting makes your skin crawl, congrats! Your brain is working normally. (Hat tip to ThinkProgress.)

"You know, we’ve been reporting that this shouldn’t happen in a church. But I was downstairs talking with some people that work here that we all talk about our faith and we share the same beliefs. We were saying there’s no other place we would want to go other than church, because I’m there asking for forgiveness.”

This shouldn't be surprising coming from the woman who said gun control couldn't have stopped the Las Vegas massacre, and that the real reason for that horrific crime was that the shooter didn't have God. And yet here we are, surprised that someone could simultaneously not think gun control is worthy of conversation and then think "well at least they were in Church" is a fine reaction.