I want to laugh at this person's arrogance, but instead I feel like crying. How deep in an abusive delusion do you have to be to consider this an act of god's mercy when 12 people died and 50 others were injured? What sort of sick "well he killed some people, but he could have killed more" explanation would justify that as being "mercy?"

If god jammed the AR-15, it would mean that god is certainly able to influence things in the world. That also means that god could have prevented this tragedy entirely though. Unless of course god's power only extends to jamming one gun (that happens to be known for jamming), in which case he sure as fuck isn't much of a god.

Sort of reminds me of that Rorschach quote, "If god saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind."

I understand people wanting to find the positive in situations like this, but the sad truth is that there is nothing positive about it. What we can do is try to comfort those affected, and try to prevent another tragedy like this from happening. It saddens me deeply to know that many people who believe in an eternal afterlife don't grasp just how precious this life really is.