Four people were killed in Orlando, Florida early Easter Sunday morning after a good guy with a gun made a decision to change teams, shooting and killing three family members including a child, before committing suicide by cop, CBS News reports.

We here at National Zero don’t regularly report on such mundane mass murders–or the multiple mass shootings that occur every day in scores of places where government regulations cannot prevent a gun owner from open carrying 24/7: private residences.  No government has ever attempted to limit the ability of a homeowner to carry a gun in their own home.  Yes, there has been legislation regulating secure storage of weapons that are not on the person of the owner; that common-sense reform was knocked down by conservative activist judges.  But no legislation has ever been proposed about guns being carried inside a home.

Ammosexuals like Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, the co-chair of the Second Amendment Caucus, are fond of claiming that mass shootings typically happen in places that ban the carrying of firearms.  Massie and his fellow cultists claim that if people were allowed to carry guns there, mass shootings would virtually disappear–or at a minimum, the number of victims would be greatly reduced by the swift actions of multiple Lone Rangers who immediately intercede–without creating mass chaos about who the true threat is as myriad gun-wielding stuporheroes fire at everyone else brandishing weapons. 

So Massie et al continue to perpetuate lies.  Most mass shootings don’t happen in gun-free zones; they happen at home.  A majority of mass killings–defined by the FBI as four or more people killed (excluding the killer) within 24 hours–show that from 2006 through 2021, nearly 70% took place at a home or temporary leaving site like a shelter.  Admittedly, it’s a slightly different statistic, but it follows that shootings that end in fewer fatalities would have a similar, if not exact, rate.

And they’re not done by people who illegally purchased their guns; 77% of mass shooters legally owned the weapons used to murder people before illegally owning them after firing the first shot at a victim.  Another talking point–that mass shootings are random acts of violence or gang violence–is also a lie; more than two-thirds have a direct connection to domestic violence, not gang violence.

So while mass shootings like the one that happened at a Delaware mall Saturday are tragic, they’re not typical.  Massie wants us to focus on public mass shootings, but the intimate ones are the more common, the more frequent and just as deadly.