(November 7, 2017 at 4:24 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: What's wrong with offering thoughts and prayers?
The people who died were all Christian, obviously. If it brings any sense of peace or comfort to their families to be offered prayers, then why would anyone have a problem with it?
What's wrong with it?
Nothing until it starts being used as a replacement to actually get something done. And when the gun issue in this country needs to be addressed, this is what always happens.
Because offering up thoughts and prayers does nothing to solve the actual problem. Instead, it pacifies people and gives a free pass to those praying so that they don't actually have to do anything. Ignoring the gun issues in this country won't make anyone here any safer and people need to start admitting that we have a serious problem here and instead of praying - we need to work on ways to either enforce the laws we already have or find another way to stop these senseless killings.
If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got. These mass shootings will continue as long as morons like Ryan hold the belief that prayer works.
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