STFU White House - Praying does not work

[malaise]

Do something about the fucking guns

That is all

[Duncanpup]

1. Let's pray

Dear Lord However long the orange parasite has is to long.

[malaise]

13. The mayor nailed it

I don’t want to hear about thoughts and prayers
These kids were literally praying as they were gunned down.
Well said.
Two kids are dead, seven critical and ten other folks are injured.

Add link
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[Omnipresent]

29. Maybe god can't even save children praying in church, because...

There is no god!

[Dustlawyer]

58. I'm not a believer, but if there is a God it is clear

by now he/she expects us to take care of this ourselves.

[malaise]

59. Yah think?

Rec

[MarcoZandrini]

34. A Haitian voodoo..

….priestess might work.

[HeartsCanHope]

48. Amen, Duncanpup!

[mobeau69]

2. If it did Donvict would be dead.

[malaise]

4. You win the thread

[Ocelot II]

3. If prayers worked, Trump would have been called home to Satan a long time ago.

[BidenRocks]

22. Every other Wednesday.

M'Kay?

[BoRaGard]

5. There are vibes, and then there are vibes

[maxsolomon]

6. American Gubmint is going to "do something about the guns"

Like it's going to do something about Anthropogenic Climate Change.

As long as Repukes hold any power it will never happen, and they currently hold all the power.

The 2nd Amendment is a curse.

[Walleye]

21. I would say there's no excuse or reason for those high capacity magazines

Especially on those powerful rifles. The wounded will have life-changing injuries no doubt.

[HeartsCanHope]

49. Exactly, my husband has always said set limits on bullets. I totally agree.

No one needs high capacity magazines for home or personal defense.

[Walleye]

7. Well, the right wingers always said more prayer inschools would help. This happened at a Catholic school

They pray they all the time. So it doesn’t help. But at least they put the old cracker back in the Cracker Barrel logo. “Christians” will be happy about that

[dflprincess]

14. It actually happened in church during the weekly Mass held for the school

So much for thoughts and prayers.

[Walleye]

16. Really, it's just sickening every time they say something like that

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

26. To them, it's a polite way of saying "We don't give a fuck."

[onethatcares]

8. I got an idea

and I'm gonna email my senator with it.

Why don't we have a call to prayer 5 times a day and get pre=active on this shit?

surely the lizard will agree...........

[Walleye]

17. And prohibit having windows in schools and churches.

The shooter shot through the window. So they will deal with the windows, not the guns. I don’t know why it should be so hard to prohibit high capacity magazines

[Ping Tung]

9. All guns should be replaced with scary ham sandwiches.

[Mblaze]

10. Don pretends that he prays.

Actually he might occasionally toss out a "get me out of these charges" wish.

[twodogsbarking]

11. Who shall he blame. Obama. Biden. Taylor Swift. Melaaaaaniaaaah said I don't care, in five languages.

[Nigrum Cattus]

12. Bumper sticker

https://www.evolvefish.com/Nothing-Fails-Like-Prayer-Bumper-Sticker--11-x-3_p_615.html

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

28. A couple of good bumper stickers there!

[LeftinOH]

15. ...and it happened in a religious school -- where praying is routine. n/t

[Martin Eden]

18. Donald doesn't pray; he preys

The most un-christian POtuS ever to dishonor the White House.

[republianmushroom]

36. With the blessing of the Supreme Court chief justice, roberts.

[3catwoman3]

45. Exactly!

I like what you did with POtuS.

[underpants]

19. They were actually PRAYING.

Statement on NPR "enough with the thoughts and prayers, these children were actually praying.. "

I think that was from someone at the children’s hospital

[GusBob]

20. He's gonna use this as an excuse to send the NG

Armed NG

[dlilafae]

23. It does not!

Tried praying for the grifting ignoramus to meet his season of justice. ~ Nothing! ~ Stupid Americans made him POTUS.

[mn9driver]

24. Walking distance from my house.

That orange fucker better not show up here. It won’t be the photo op he’s looking for.

[malaise]

35. Horrific

[Heidi]

25. THIS 100%+. The importance of empirical evidence:

After ~250 years of people praying for this nation has yielded no predictable, repeatable result, maybe prayer is just a comfy story we tell ourselves.

[Wisky64]

27. They WERE praying

These students and staff WERE literally praying when they were shot. It’s a Catholic K -8 school. They start each school day with a morning mass. They were literally praying at the time they were shot.

I’m beginning to think thoughts and prayers are not the answer.

[milestogo]

32. There was also a shooting at a Christian school in Madison WI

not so long ago. It happened in the library.

Unfortunately its happening everywhere.

[MsLeopard]

30. My prayer is that

One day a mass shooter will go into a Board of Directors meeting, or Davos, or a Berkshire Hathaway meeting, or an Koch brothers event, and shoot up a bunch rich white men, the richer the better.

When that happens, guns will be off the street the next effing day.

Our country is such a joke. Absolutely sickening! This is what the end of empire looks like. 🤬. And we deserve it, we are a failed state.

So sick of this 💩!!!

[MrWowWow]

31. Bang Bang Bang

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

33. Proof that posting ten commandments, or 15, or 20, will not deter or prevent things from happening.

If they won't work with churches, why stick them anywhere else?

[Botany]

37. It is the guns end of story.

After WW II Japan got rid of guns and guess what happened? They have almost no
deaths by guns.

How many mass shootings have we had in 2025?

Btw we have had 38 mass shootings in America since August 1st. A mass shooting
is when 4 or more people not counting the gun man or gun woman wounded or killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2025

[Skittles]

38. prayer makes people feel better about doing nothing

yup

[surfered]

39. Every country in the world has trans people, mentally unstable people and angry people.

But the US is the only country in the world with this mass shooting problem. The only difference, is the access to guns in the US.

[Jack Valentino]

40. If praying worked, I suspect a certain politician would be dead by now....

[Warpy]

41. Depends on what you want it to do

If you're a believer and you want to center yourself and do some really mild meditation, then it works just fine.

Otherwise, it's the worst sort of slactiivism on its best day.

That's probably a good thing, consider how many people pray for the opposiite thing their neighbor does, from fixing high school football games to calling down divine smiting of enemies, especially imaginary ones.

Doesn't matter if it's Sufi dancing, Buddhist hanting, Hasidic singing, thumbing your beads, or just on your knees and mumbling for an hour before bed, it can have a profound effect on your own psyche. Just don't expect it to go any farther than that.

Especially don't expect it to do jack shit about the carnage in the US that is coming from too many fucking guns in civilian hands.

[BootinUp]

42. I find Monty Python jokes helpful sometimes

“Good evening. Tonight on ‘Is There?’ we examine the question, ‘Is there a life after death?’ And here to discuss it are three dead people.”

https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/funniest-monty-python-quotes-136980

[red dog 1]

43. K&R

When A$$HOLES are outlawed, only outlaws will have A$$HOLES.

[spanone]

44. The sickest, most depraved administration ever...

praying?

Give me a fucking break.

[Xolodno]

46. Prayer is between your God and you.

And it doesn't mean he will acquiesce to what you want, only takes it under consideration.

We we're all happy and naked in the Garden of Eden, then we chose to make our own future. He obliged. Unfortunately, there are too many bad people out there and too many who enable them.

[Aussie105]

47. "Thoughts and prayers" are just a cynic's way of saying . . .

I don't really care. (Fake concern. Apathy)
And if I did, I call on a higher power to do something (Abrogating responsibility)

People who use Tots & Pears as a response really need to be called out at every opportunity.

Questions like . . . OK, looks like God is busy, what are you going to do about it in the meantime?
(Handballing responsibility back to the cynics.)

Other countries have effectively cut down on death-by-gun incidents, so why not America?

[malaise]

50. As a friend says

Correct is right.

[Javaman]

52. ironic that they offer "thoughts and prayers" to a catholic school.

I would think they would have that already covered.

[mwb970]

53. "Praying" strikes me as a meaningless act that accomplishes nothing.

Is the idea that they are communicating via mental telepathy with an invisible, undetectable, all-powerful being of some kind? Are the people praying to tell this "god" creature what to do? What is its response? Does any of this makes sense?

As a great philosopher once said, you cannot petition the Lord with prayer. Believe it.

[malaise]

54. I watched a priest on one of the programs

His explanation was tortuous and illogical.

[mwb970]

55. If they would call it "meditating", I would have no problem.

It's when they add the part about actually communicating with an imaginary supernatural being, including telling this being what they would like it to do for them and expecting it to be done, that it sounds stupid and irrational to me.

[Torchlight]

56. 'thoughts and prayers' are their only crutch. Without it

they’ll have nothing to say after the next tragedy. That is their only response. The only one. Every time. Sure, it comes in a billion variations, but it’s always the same: thoughts and prayers.

Their loyal sealions will offer weak follow-ups (‘we can’t stop it from happening,’ ‘may as well arm yourself,’ ‘isn’t it just like buying car insurance?’), but without the anchor of ‘thoughts and prayers,’ these meritless monotone monologues collapse into flaccid and ineffectual emptiness.

[malaise]

57. Don't forget the

It’s too soon to discuss gun laws.
I’m sick of them

[bagimin]

60. There is one solution to the gun problem

and Australia did it with success. Is Australia better than the U.S.? Yes, yes they are .