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Why ‘thoughts and prayers’ after the Las Vegas shooting became fighting words
Sacramento Bee ^ | October 02, 2017 | Don Sweeney

Posted on 10/02/2017 2:27:02 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Keep your “thoughts and prayers” to yourself.

It’s a growing sentiment online as the now-familiar well wishes flood in following a deadly mass shooting Sunday at a Las Vegas concert. A long-simmering backlash against the phrase condemns it as a useless – or worse – platitude intended to mute calls for action on stronger gun laws.

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Dear GOP Members of Congress,

F#ck your thoughts and prayers.

Sincerely,

Americans sick of gun deaths


Did this fellow have the same response when the Bernie supporter gunned down the GOP members of Congress?

1 posted on 10/02/2017 2:27:02 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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I wonder if he’s sick of non-gun deaths...


2 posted on 10/02/2017 2:29:49 PM PDT by EEGator
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I agree with the “thoughts” sentiment.

After all, the Bible doesn’t say “The fervent thoughts of a righteous man avails much.

Replace thoughts with prayers and now you’re getting somewhere.


3 posted on 10/02/2017 2:30:42 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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This idiot could be a Hillary Supporter.

At least SHE didn’t offer thoughts and prayers. She immediately blamed the NRA. And by extension - blamed white conservatives.


4 posted on 10/02/2017 2:31:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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"Americans sick of gun deaths"

Bet he goes to the hood in Chicago and protests the black on black murders /s

5 posted on 10/02/2017 2:31:59 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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Fair enough. I’ve never really been one to be content with “thoughts and prayers”.

We can work on having the law arrest, deport, or execute the perpetrators and enablers/supporters of these massacres instead. That means all Leftists, and that includes you.


6 posted on 10/02/2017 2:32:41 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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Dear “people” offended by “thoughts and prayers”:

You’re in my thoughts and prayers.


7 posted on 10/02/2017 2:33:04 PM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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Dear demonicRAT fascists and communists:

To hell with your incessant demands for “gun control”! Keep your “thoughts” (no prayers from you lot) to yourselves.

Sincerely,

Deplorable Americans sick of tyranny.


8 posted on 10/02/2017 2:33:54 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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We’ve seen this before. When did libs actually think of prayer as important?

I thought they hate Christians and any religion?


9 posted on 10/02/2017 2:34:47 PM PDT by beergarden
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“Did this fellow have the same response when the Bernie supporter gunned down the GOP members of Congress?”

He must be real upset that Barry did nothing about guns when Dems had all three branches. What do they think will happen? Door to door confiscation? There would be a lot of dead confiscators. There would also be a lot of dead leftists. You aren’t taking our guns without a bloody fight.


10 posted on 10/02/2017 2:35:40 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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Aw gee, does this mean no teddy bears and candlelight?

/sarc


11 posted on 10/02/2017 2:35:50 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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In that so many Democrats how have the “vampire syndrome” of cringing in hate, horror and dread at the sight of the cross and the invocation of God, choosing instead to revel in the death of their enemies and even politicize the deaths of their friends, how easy it is to just invoke “prayer” at a time like this. Or at other times as well.

It seems to be more effective than even garlic and Holy water.


12 posted on 10/02/2017 2:35:52 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Hitlers Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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This idiot could be a Hillary Supporter.

At least SHE didn’t offer thoughts and prayers. She immediately blamed the NRA. And by extension - blamed white conservatives.

>><<

Yep, the Depolorables and Clingers.


13 posted on 10/02/2017 2:36:19 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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They are sick of "Gun Deaths."

They much prefer the higher body counts you get with truck and bus attacks.

Like the 84 dead in one swoop in Nice France on Bastille day...


14 posted on 10/02/2017 2:37:45 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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The Delusional Lying Left hates prayers which is why officialdom has been cowed into having a “Moment of Silence”.

Now Delusional Lying Left wants to stop the “Moment of Silence” to continue furthering their hypocritical and delusional political agenda.

How I hate the Lying Left.


15 posted on 10/02/2017 2:38:02 PM PDT by Jim W N
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Liberals own this mass shooting. It’s their monster terrorizing the village.


16 posted on 10/02/2017 2:38:57 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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If gun control laws worked, this attack would not have taken place.

And yet, these mentally challenged folks try to score points anyway, even though their whole premise was just destroyed.

The gun used yesterday was outlawed.

It didn’t matter.

GUN LAWS DO NOT PREVENT CRIME


17 posted on 10/02/2017 2:39:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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“Platitude intended to mute calls for action on stronger gun laws.”

Please, ask those in favor of “stronger gun laws” if they think this will actually accomplish anything. Why not reduce illegal drug usage with “stronger drug laws”? Why not reduce robbery with “stronger robbery laws”? Why not reduce all criminal behavior with “stronger laws”? The answer, of course, is that we need stronger enforcement of laws, stronger moral character, and less corruption. These are more difficult to obtain than the passage of another law.


18 posted on 10/02/2017 2:39:13 PM PDT by rgboomers (This space purposely left blank)
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Let Chris Sacca know what you think

https://twitter.com/sacca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sacbee.com%2Flatest-news%2Farticle176531176.html


19 posted on 10/02/2017 2:39:50 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Here's what I'm grappling with right now:

Is the Sacramento Bee devoting all of these resources to covering this story because the perpetrator is white, or because the victims are mostly (maybe all) white?

I ask that question because they obviously didn't care about the 500+ black people killed in Chicago just up to this point in 2017 alone.

20 posted on 10/02/2017 2:40:36 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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