Does anyone here think thoughts and prayers

[Voltaire2]

is an appropriate response to yet another gun massacre?

[Chipper Chat]

1. No

[John Fante]

2. No. When the enemies of America (AKA: Republicans) utter this empty phrase

they may as well be saying, "sorry guys, I get paid handsomely to look the other way."

[Bluepinky]

3. No, I think tougher gun legislation and background checks is an appropriate response.

[unblock]

4. i have no problem with it, in and of itself.

it's the refusing to do anything else about it part that gets me.

[forgotmylogin]

5. Our moments of silence are merging into weeks and months.

We need to start screaming. Silence doesn't help.

[Demit]

8. WHAT??

You have a hell of a nerve insulting people right now. The worship of guns is the problem. Thinking it's enough to pray instead of trying to prevent future deaths is the problem. Your show of self-congratulatory piety is disgusting.

[Squaredeal]

9. Well, thats just what their own governor just offered them.

Feel all better now, Florida?

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Bye.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

12. "Skeptics have little heart and are in themselves the problem."

Please feel free to pound sand at your convenience.

[Mariana]

14. Not A problem, but THE problem.

Skeptics exist, therefore school shootings happen. Who can argue with logic like that?

[trotsky]

22. Thanks for providing a quote.

Glad I missed that hateful troll.

[Thunderbeast]

7. No!

Performing a superstitious ritual to seek support from an imaginary friend will not save another child's life.

Changes in public policy will.

Controls on gun ownership has demonstrated significant positive results in countries that have implemented them.

We must stop succumbing to the lie that gun laws can never and will never change. We must not concede the debate before it is heard.

Stop praying. Start electing politicians that will implement rational firearms policy. Take down the NRA!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. No. And anyone who is piously offering thoughts and prayers

ought to instead do something substantial, like write letters to lawmakers and make it clear that we demand change.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. No.

Not knowing what happened and why, I don't know what would be the most effective response at the moment.

Step one would be to work to understand the problem.


Looking back at previous massacres, in almost every case, registration of firearms, at least semi-autos would be a step that would allow us to disarm people adjudicated mentally incompetent, or criminally ineligible due to Domestic Violence or other contra-indicators. I would start there. The 1986 GOPA needs to be repealed.

[BigmanPigman]

15. A REAL SOLUTION ASAP would be an appropriate response

but we will never get it as long as the NRA and Religious Right fill the deep pockets of the lawmakers with BIG $$$$$$ as usual.

[Iggo]

16. Fucking useless, is what it is.

[Music_Swims]

17. NO

Thoughts and prayers don't seem to be making any difference. And people asking questions such as "What is wrong with kids these days" is, in my opinion, the wrong question. I had a co-worker ask that question today

[NRaleighLiberal]

18. No. And even worse - when a survivor says "god or jesus saved me or my child or..."

incredible egotism of some people - so did god or jesus or whoever just not like those that got killed???

[guillaumeb]

19. It is a response, but it is not a substitute for an actual solution.

But an actual solution would require rejecting the NRA money and regulating weapons of death.

[MineralMan]

20. Not at all. Gun laws might do something.

Thoughts and prayers help only the person thinking and praying.

[marylandblue]

21. "Thoughts and Prayers" has become the new "Let them eat cake"