William Lindsey Mar 28, 2023

Rex Huppke writes,

“'Thoughts and prayers! Don’t politicize this!' the people will crow.

Nuts to that. The thoughts-and-prayers, it’s-too-soon-to-talk-about-it ship sailed several hundred mass shootings ago. I’m mad now."

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/03/27/nashville-shooting-covenant-school-blame-guns/11550808002/

Nashville school shooting leaves 3 more kids dead. Don't you tell me it's too soon to talk guns.

Three children and three adults are dead, gunned down in a Nashville school by someone who had no business possessing two rifles and a handgun.

USA TODAY
Show threadHeskieMar 28, 2023
@wdlindsy
This springs to mind when people auto-spout "thoughts and prayers" -
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.
Matthew's Gospel, chapter 6.
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 
@Heskie Yes, for me, too. And: "You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead peoplen's bones and everything unclean."
Mar 28, 2023 at 5:29pmWeb