After the latest mass shooting in Virginia Beach, many commentators noted that these scenes of carnage have become depressingly familiar — as has the failure of our political system to come up with any solutions to our societal crisis of gun violence. But at least the wake of this latest tragedy has seen less of the “if only the victims were armed” take that usually makes a horrible situation even worse.

This may be a small consolation but it’s an important one, because it reflects the fact that the engine of that toxic concern trolling, the National Rifle Association (NRA), is going through a destructive civil war — a conflict rooted in greed, corruption, and debates about just how far into the far right the organization should venture. But mostly it’s about greed and corruption.

It’s a moment for shame-free schadenfreude — there’s nothing wrong with deriving pleasure from the self-inflicted wounds of people who smear school shooting victims as crisis actors, use the horror of the 2017 Manchester bombing to spread the white nationalist “replacement theory” of declining white birth rates, and hint that maybe gun owners should assault Black Lives Matter activists.