Praying for of all those affected by today’s horrific shooting in Minnesota, injuring and killing innocent young people who were simply starting their school year. We are all too accustomed to awful news like this, but must never accept such suffering and loss as normal.
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Say the G word or it means nothing.
Our generations, and our kids have all paid enough of the price for inaction.
It’s the guns, it always have been, and anyone not bluntly stating that should no longer speak about such.
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Instead of praying, how about you actually DO something about it???
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Okay. Makes sense. Now what?
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You haven't said jack shit about stealing land and slaughtering it's inhabitants for a Jewish cult. Why?
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Please focus on no magazines and limit the bullets that can be loaded- they can have all the ar15 style guns they want - just limit the bullets to 3 or 4 and ban magazines. Duck hunters can have only 3 bullets !
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Every last 2A fetishist has already shown, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they don't care. They hold their guns closer than their children.
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Can someone in charge finally call it mental illness? Sane people don't shoot other humans.
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Children should NOT have to describe what it was like having their friends protecting them from gunfire. Damn to hell every politician that doesn’t attempt to fix this. 🤬🤬🤬
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Prayer helps 0. Stronger gun laws... I T ' S T H E G U N S.
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We are becoming numb to these mass shooters. Ban assault weapons NOW!
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Have you said one word condemning our funding Israel's genocide on Palestine? No. So stfu goofball.
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Prayers are meaningless, clearly. The kids were praying that people in power would do something about these tragedies when it befell them.
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Not accustomed- horrified each and every time, let me guess, it's a white guy with a military style rifle?
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Thank you Pete
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Praying is about all there is to do because the MAGA-driven GOP will never vote to restrict their overly-broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment that is now a pillar of their political beliefs, nor will they tax the top 5% sufficiently to pay for more mental health services. Misplaced priorities.
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Pray? What a load of shit
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Thanks man, this should land about as well as your stance on Israel and Gaza.
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Sorry Pete. I expect a better response from you than "praying".
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Stop holding back, lay it at the feet of Republicans every fucking day! The blood is on their hands!
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Seriously? We have to be told this after all these years of wading in the blood of innocents because of the "law of the land"? Damn we all must be dumber than I thought.
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They were already in a church school when they were slaughtered.
Shows what good praying does.
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Please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think about guns. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
National Financial Plan – The United States needs a long-term Financial Plan
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And yet, the maga Supreme Court won’t allow guns in their building…
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How about we change the easy, empty slogan of “praying for”, to angry about.
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I’m so tired of politicians praying. Even the good ones like PB. Stop praying. Praying does absolutely nothing. Waste of air.
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We have created a society where we are forced to share space with heavily armed people, whose intent we cannot know until they open fire. This is not "freedom".
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Right, seems like praying is doing such a great fucking job 🙄
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It is normal, and now we live in MAGA’s America. More children will be slaughtered, Trump will do nothing but encourage more violence, and our children’s futures are ruined.
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Another day, another shooting. Children dead and injured. Why is there never enough white-hot burning rage about this? I don't want to hear Democrats telling us that their "hearts go out..." etc, etc, etc. I want to hear them screaming "ENOUGH OF THIS FUCKING SHIT!!!!" at the top of their lungs.
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What do you pray? That their parents don’t feel grief? That they’ll find solace soon? They won’t until the day they die.
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Yet, y'all have no issue accepting the loss and suffering happening in Palestine and are silent about it. Yet, you and most dems, can't stop crying about Ukraine. Dems are weak!!!
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Are you phucking kidding me Pete???
Prayers???
Phuck the useless prayers!!!
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Sadly, murdering children in America has become normal. What are you going to do about it?🔥
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Charge Injustice John Roberts with treason and build a SCOTUS aligned with We the People It’s urging to keep democracy
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I'm sure you mean well but praying achieves nothing.
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You're not following anybody. Which means you're not interacting with anybody. Which means blah blah blah.
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Oh, calm down. They went to meet Jayzuss. Heaven sake.
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They were praying in church! When does this horror stop?
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Not only they're useless to dead children, but also to their families who survived them. Or the children who are alive today but may not be tomorrow when the same happens at yet another school. How many more Sandy Hooks, Oxfords or Columbines do we need for someone to actually do something?
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Arise this good public servant who'll put a stop to this continuing tragedy - PEOPLE AND THEIR WELFARE MUST MATTER MORE THAN ANY OUT-OF-DATE PRIVATE PERSONAL PRIVILEGE - DO IT SIR! Thank you Sir!
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Pete Buttigieg-s TLDR:
Let us pray that the loss & suffering from horrific shootings like this never get normalized
TLDR of Buttigieg's TLDR:
Feigned concern + a platitude.
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You'll need more than useless prayers. Stop this religious bull, start banning gun shops and make guns illegal. Completely illegal like in Europe.
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Now can we sue the NRA?
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You aren’t wrong here. This is clearly horrific, and the safety of children hits hard for many of us.
What people yearn for is action. What can we do to ensure this never happens again? The loss is great, but we must use our voices to spur this action, for fear of it ever repeating itself.
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Heartbreaking
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Praying is outdated, do something Democrat...
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Here we go again:
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Except it is normal. In the United States, at least.
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You are clearly brilliant, Buttigieg. A shining light on the political stage. Do you really believe the religious mumbo-jumbo, or is it something you just have to do to be a viable politician? Serious question; no answer required. 
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We need guns off the streets now.
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Yes, finally, a politician willing to mutter to himself rather than do anything useful.
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#NRAGOP
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That was pretty weak, Pete.
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Any Republican who say my thoughts and prayers line! Go Fck yourself! Those children were praying when they were attacked! How about trying to save are children! Republicans this is your blood on your hands! AGAIN! Watching a 10yr old talk about his friend who saved him getting shot and he felt it.
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This reads like a typical politician response. Not gonna get you far when you run for President, people want authenticity.
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Trump signed a proclamation honoring the victims of the school shooting in Minneapolis, ordering American flags to be flown at half-staff on public grounds through Sunday night. BUT NOT A WORD ABOUT GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION! Typical of the RepubliKKKants. Thoughts and prayers but no action.
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I’m sorry but we are accustomed to it. 9days ago 2Utah Deputies lost their lives to a person who should have lost his gun privileges a long time ago. But google news aggregator the next day that story fell to below #40 in headlines. We are numb.
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BREAK the NRA.
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thoughts and prayers don't do sh*t. ban assault weapons and stop electing republicans.
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The GOP obviously wants more firearms than children in our country. 🖕 them all.
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But it is normal, that's the problem.
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#MayoPete king of consultant tested talking points and saying nothing about his actual unpopular policies........again 🙄🤦♀️
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#EricLogan
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I think permitting it (and even stoking it) is deliberate on the part of the Trump administration. Trump wants everyone to be fearful. (And he sure as hell doesn't want anyone to be happy)
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It's all true. Please don't let an entire country get used to thinking that this kind of horror is even remotely normal.
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Such cowards that target children & schools throughout America to commit sickening acts against unarmed children, people & all civilians. The 2nd amendment is not a right to use your guns on defenseless humans!! So unacceptable to have cowards like this shooter filled with such H8 walking among us!
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Praying does nothing. It's all too clear.
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The children were already praying, right? For all the good that did them.
If you don’t want a repeat, something a bit more substantial will be needed.
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If prayer really worked a lot of pregnancies wouldn't have happened.
It's not an effective birth control method but probably the most common.
Same as praying for a pregnancy that is wanted but never happens.
Pete is a religious person and I can respect that It doesn't seem to help unfortunately.
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Yeah…prayer…that’s a good one
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So much so that when I saw the story, I thought it was a rehash of something that happened weeks ago. Wasn't there another shooting in MN a few weeks ago? AND WHO THE F*** puts a 10-year-old on TV after a school shooting??? Jeez.
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Keep sacrificing your children until you ban guns
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So what is your stance on gun sense legislation such as background checks on all gun sales, secure storage of firearms in vehicles and homes, and a ban on assault weapons? None of these common sense solutions infringe on the 2nd amendment.
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Damn, Pete. Prayers?
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@petebuttigieg.bsky.social please answer the following question: Why don’t prayers before these shootings empower the Almighty to prevent the shootings in the first place? Because he is not that almighty, isn’t he?
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Do something!! Prayers please. You would think after Sandy Hook and so many more the Americans would change their policies. How old is your constitution?? 249 yrs old. Bearing arms back in its day, sure. There were no assault weapons. It should be illegal for reps to have their wallets lined
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unfortunately, it is accepted as normal. were that not the case, we wouldn't be here
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They were shot in church. Praying is worth bupkis.
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With all due respect, how can we not? It keeps happening and has been at least since the Columbine massacre. If a certain type of event happens in American society over and over for more than a quarter of a century, how can we say it isn’t normal?
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God gave us a heart and a brain to stop killing our children with guns; man ignored him. Guns kill people. Some people, in need of mental health help, shoot people. Let’s spend money on a ballroom rather than mental health. We all bleed red. We love our children but we’re failing to protect them.
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Oh but it is normal in America where we ban books because it might make you gay but banning guns won’t stop shootings like this according to the same folks
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The regularity of these statements in repetition and tone is helping it be normalized.
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MAKE THIS YOUR MANIFESTO: I WILL BAN GUNS. I WILL END THE KILLING OF YOUR CHILDREN IN THEIR CLASSROOM.
Simple.
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Children shot dead at school would be top headline in every country all over the world. In the US, just another day. Shame, shame, shame.
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Americans and the News outlets have become numb. It's like the daily traffic and weather reports
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I expect more from you Pete.
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Maybe if Democrats started putting forth platforms that improved people's lives, i.e. M4A, housing, living wage, instead of shrugging their shoulders and playing helpless and dismayed, things might actually change. Ya think Pete?
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Sorry Pete! In Trump’s America this IS normal! That’s what has to change! Dump Trump! Defeat MAGA!
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Nothing will change until America starts loving their children more than their guns.
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Stop praying for the victims and do something to fix this.
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Religion and religiosity as a litmus test for elected officials got us here Pete.
How about rationality over superstition, enlightenment over fundamentalism.
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Thoughts prayers and cancel the second amendment. This nation has suffered enough with that law made by colonizers for colonizers. Even the racist, classist forefathers would be disgusted with this nation of sociopaths that thinks self defense matters more than the safety of school children.
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Outlaw all gun sales and public carry licenses. The second amendment is bullshit so cancel it. Prohibit the majority of gun crimes before they happen.
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Is Buttugieg swedish for milquetoast do-nothing?
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Praying isn't serving anyone but you
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Pete a Republican now?
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Prayers have not worked and do not bring solace or peace to the families of the dead, though they may soothe those of us from afar. Making meaningful strides to end gun violence would be more impactful.
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So BAN FUCKING GUNS! It's not exactly fucking complex. Yanks make their own problems. Fix the cause! Fucking idiots. But then you elected fucking trumpster as 'president'... seppoes must be mentally defective... Odin help the world with you mad fuckers in it
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Fuck your prayers and your imaginary friend. Pray in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up quicker.
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Sadly we are accepting this suffering and loss as normal……so much so, the only thing lawmakers think to do first is …..offer prayers.
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The only country in the world which happily allows citizens to carry guns because of some archaic sentence in a years old constitution and then wonders why school shootings happen. In no other country in the world does this happen!
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Praying does no good obviously. It just keeps happening. Smdh
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I'm just a godless heathen, but absolute unapologetic rage seems like a more appropriate response than 'thoughts and prayers' which, based on an abundance of data, clearly does fuck all.
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And yet Americans still want the right to bear arms. Unbelievable.
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Pete can we try this? The insurance companies might like the new policy’s to sell.
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There are too many guns in USA.
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Love you, man, but praying schmaying!
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There's a possibility that the shooter is transgender. Tuck Frump will love that ☹️
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Why would you pray to the same invisible sky wizard who allowed this to happen in the first place?
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The message on gun control doesn't seem to be getting through.
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In Canada 🇨🇦 I never hear a politician offering thoughts and prayers. We reserve most of our violence for hockey. No offence Pete. I’m a great admirer.
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Will praying save you from those that are using you to thrown transgender 🏳️⚧️ people under the bus when you’ll be their eventual target? #TransgenderBigot #Traitor #Useless
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Tip: Say "TP" instead of thoughts and prayers. You can read an extra novel each year with the time you save.
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It already is.. that's why it's allowed to continue.. Apparently no one has the brains or the balls to change the law.
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Prayer? HORSESHIT
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Can we just give it a rest about prayer an prayers
Gun control is the only answer
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Fuck your prayers. Demand #guncontrol legislation!
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Most Democratic leaders offered payers, but only a few said anything about #guncontrol after the school shooting.
Wtaf is wrong with y'all??
It doesn't matter if you're an ex-President, a governor, mayor, a minority legislator or can't legislate at al.
Use your platform to demand #guncontrol!
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Ship has sailed. Nobody did ANYTHING when we begged for change. We are numb to it now. Dont base your campaign on it. Won't move the voters.
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Praying? What the hell were those kids doing when they were shot? Do you really thing praying does anything? How many times will something that you 'must never accept' happen before you DO anything?
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As an atheist, I won't offer a prayer, it won't mean anything. I will say I really hate that this happened, that anything like this ever happens, and I hope the children can recover.
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They were praying when they were shot. What's the point of more prayers? Are you just taking the piss now?
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I love you Pete, but these strongly worded statements are useless and as predictable as the thoughts and prayers the other side offers. We need action. We need to fight differently. The game has changed.
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If you want to stop school shootings stop praying! Praying is the opposite of doing!
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BREAKING: Massive outrage from Conservative Right demanding change following deadly school shooting.
Just kidding. It was over a restaurant logo.
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Too late
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Pete! Please learn the truth about trans people. They have biological variations that are developed in utero, due to fluctuating hormones received by the fetus during different stages of pregnancy. Please learn from doctors, not politicians and talk show hosts. Stop spreading misinformation.
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Gtfoh with your "prayers"
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It’s an odd concept—pretending to have the magical power of telepathy, transmitting thoughts to an all-knowing being in another dimension that oversees 300 sextillion planets, and believing that this being not only notices you but will also do what you ask.
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Sorry Pete- but it IS normal! Mass shootings happen every day in America. How can we not see how off the rails this country has become? JFC— mass shootings, bigotry, prejudice, fascist authoritarian government and wealth inequality in a scale not seen since King Croesus! 🤦🏻♂️🚩
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praying isn’t the answer
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It is normal. So is having a felon in the whitehouse. So is covering up for his pedophelia. All normal now.
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America jumped the shark with Sandy Hook when it was crystallized that gun ownership took precedence over children’s lives.
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Stop praying.
Start taking action.
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From available data: The 2021-2022 school year, encompassing August 2021 through May 2022, had 193 incidents. Data from Everytown Research & Policy indicates these are highest numbers, followed by 2022-2023, according to Everytown Research & Policy. This is the norm by most metrics
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Sorry but I now have negative associations with the words pray, prayer, praying when it comes to school shootings.
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So what should we do about it? How about some specifics?
The GOP blame these shootings on atheism and liberals and whatever other nonsense.
Why can’t Dems say “this is all the fault of the GOP”?
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By offering nothing but “thoughts and prayers” for decades, politicians have ensured that such suffering and loss is accepted as normal. Yet another shameful aspect of life in Amerikkka.
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Agree this was tragic. What's sad is the majority of Americans support some forms of gun control and bans on assault weapons. But, those with power are sadly able to block the will of the people.
Another observation is how different the news coverage is when the killer is an angry white guy.
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But Rump will say to just get over it and JD will say these things happen. Such caring, empathetic leaders they are. That is if they even say anything, cause reporters sure will not ask!
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Prayers aren’t working
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Cause prayers work! Ask the parents of the dead children.
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Trumps America is stained with blood, unfortunately not his.
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Love you Pete but come on. Are you praying to a different god that stops school shooters or
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But lawmakers have accepted it and that's the whole point. And the kids were praying when they were shot.
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Praying what? Get a life!
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The start of the school year has become the opening of child hunting season. And we just accept it. This country is in real trouble. I’m disgusted
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Big fan, but thoughts and prayers do nothing.
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thank you for the perfectly calibrated anodyne statement, peter
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Praying for the souls, family, and friends. God bless their hearts. Hopefully the church will adopt security. Remember all, your first line of defense is yourself. Know your laws and get yourself a gun to protect you and your loved ones.
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Fuck the praying! No lawmakers are doing shit about it for YEARS! I am sick of this!
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What exactly are you praying for?
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You’re praying? They were literally in a church. God is either an asshole or doesn’t exist.
Hint: It’s the latter.
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Pete, these are hollow words coming from a guy who is just aching for an opportunith to throw trans people under the bus......again.
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No offense dude but keep your personal delusions (prayer) to yourself, this is a national epidemic of gun violence. Children were shot and killed WHILE PRAYING.
If you have a spinal weakness that requires you to play pretend and retreat to a 'prayer safe space' during tragedies, that's YOUR flaw.
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He simply have to figure out how to prevent parents from allowing kids to get their guns, from mentally ill people from getting guns, to stop this heartbreaking continuous cycle.🙏
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We have to start praying for our leaders to make laws preventing these tragedies. They’re the responsible parties.
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US People aren't going to do a thing about it. The NRA has 5 million members. I've told US friends for 10+ years that if the 217,600,000 US People in favour of gun control wanted, they could take over the NRA in a few years & turn it into a gun safety organization. No one wants to put in the effort.
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What will you do today now that you’ve tweeted your thoughts and prayers?
Have you joined your local Moms Demand Action group?
Will you book a ticket to lobby your reps in DC next week?
Will you go on FoxNews and start making viewers understand it’s Republicans that enable this every single day?
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Petey, you're going to have to do a lot more than pray this away. It just doesn't work.
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Nice words but not close to being enough, Pete. The time for kind words, sweet thoughts and heartfelt prayers expired years ago. We need action. We need strong gun laws. We need politicians angry enough to actually DO SOMETHING to prevent more of our precious children from being gunned down.
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🙏❤️🌹
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So do something other than comment
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This is why I don’t like him , They were praying pendejo !
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I love you and respect you Mayor, homo, security, husband and fellow Michigander Pete. Never back down and stay true. You're one of a kind.
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Fox complains that left Protest to soon after a shooting why not respond with ok we will not talk about the current shooting but let’s talk today about the prior hundreds of shootings that has happened prior to this one.
Why has support for people affected by shootings been defunded?
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I did the analysis for everyone: it's the guns, folks.
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Praying? 🙄
Are you truly praying or is that the only “normal” thing you can say at this point 🤷🏻♂️
Guess what PB….the children were also praying and now they’re dead
F*ck all the prayers, let’s get something done that might make a difference!
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Sorry but superstitious discourse with something that’s patently non-existent is frankly despicable. Do something worthy & leave the occultish bullshit & omnibenevolent figments of fuck-all in the dark-age churches, mosques, etc where they belong & leave the joined-up thinking to the adults! Vile!
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Praying is apparently the drug of choice in these tragedies. Great bromide when nothing of substance is being done.
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Praying does absolutely nothing. Like literally nothing.
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Trump just yesterday said he can do anything he wants
Why doesn't anyone ask him Why he doesn't want to stop the murdering of school children???
Wtaf kind of priorities this megalomaniac have???
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Strict gun ownership controls might work better.
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I hope you're next. Then you dont have to worry about girls sports.
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No one except incels and closet cases want to hear from you bitch
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Fuck you, you traitorous lil bucktooth bitch.
