Our Priest Talked About The School Shooting Today At Mass

[gab13by13]

He has cops in his family.

He said that talk about banning guns is hogwash. (his actual words)

He enumerated all of the school shootings over the last 6 or 7 years.

He even mentioned the attempted assassination of Trump.

His solution to stopping school shootings is that we should take the time to talk to and console troubled, mentally ill, bullied kids.

I was tempted to stand up and yell, why don't Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa have school shootings, they all have troubled, mentally ill, bullied kids?

[chouchou]

1. Seems like a section of Society want to be a Macho-Man...at the same time, are terrified of...

...the rest of the other citizens.

[riversedge]

2. IF the US had a president who believed in not killing kids, we might make Some progress with gun control!!

IF IF IF etc et.....

[efhmc]

3. Anyone who belongs to a religion which treats women the way his does know nothing about the prevention of violence.

[GreenWave]

11. Or even preaching about the GODDESS who was so worshipped in ancient Middle East!

[AnnaLee]

4. Write the Pope about this. ntp

[Hope22]

5. Doesn't sound like he's following his master....

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/pope-leo-xiv-denounces-pandemic-arms-minnesota-school-shooting/

[ShazzieB]

27. I already liked Leo.

Now I like him even better!

[Iris]

6. Just when I feel like it might be safe to go back to the church. Sigh.

[Callalily]

7. He should stick to his

religious gobbledygook from the pulpit, and keep his opinions to himself.

[karynnj]

8. I'm with you, though I think being kind to and helping troubled people,

not just kids, is at least a good thing to do. The bad thing is of course only restricting guns is likely to make a big change. In fact, the years when there was an assault ban DID have fewer deaths from mass murders than the time periods before and after.

[Scrivener7]

9. If they're going to talk politics from the pulpit, and they invariably do, they should pay taxes.

[riversedge]

20. I have heard that comment for years-and years. Nothing happens.

[MIButterfly]

24. Thank you!

I have believed (and said) that for years.

Separation of church and state.

[samplegirl]

10. It's about time

Not much left in the Catholic Church to brag about.

[Martin Eden]

12. If you HAD SHOUTED that in church

What would have been the repercussions?

[Srkdqltr]

13. Not really surprising. Our whole history is filled with guns. Most successful movies are

Guns and explosions pointed at young men, who BTW, are the majority of gun users.
We idolize John Wayne and all with western movies. Supposedly family values with guns guns guns.

[Srkdqltr]

14. Better he should preach against killing people, how that is against thec10 commandments.

[Happy Hoosier]

15. The priest is an idiot.

That kind of behavior is a major reason I turned my back on Church. When it became clear that these so-called spiritual leaders were often trash humans, I felt like an idiot sitting there listening to them tell me how I should live.

Of course later I determined that religion is nonsense. Not unrelated, but a different story.

[tavernier]

16. That's when you stand up and walk out.

And hopefully others will follow you.

[llmart]

31. Or you could stand up...

and hold up a picture of those dead children.

[LeftyLucie]

17. One More Reason to Avoid Church Religiously

That priest sounds like a MAGA moron.

[Mblaze]

18. Politicians don't talk about banning guns.

They talk about banning military weapons for civilians on the streets (and successfully did that for ten years). They talk about banning bump stocks which turn a rifle and even a pistol into a machine gun (and did ban them until Trump). They talk about banning high capacity clips (so that a shooter has to at least stop to reload when he's mowing people down). They talk about banning silencers.

If your priest could show me the harm done by Clinton's automatic weapons ban and Biden's bump stock ban and explain why high capacity clips and silencers are needed by civilians, I would possibly listen to him.

[Mblaze]

19. It sounds like your priest

Wants to study war some more.

[popsdenver]

21. If you look in the dictionary

you will find that they define a HYPOCRITE as the entire membership of the Religious Right and all Republicans.

[IzzaNuDay]

22. Next time Please speak up

My issue with organized religion is the sermon— the speakers who twist their logic into a biblical context.
I ceased to attend because I would have spoken up when I heard bullshit.

[pfitz59]

23. Catholic Priests believe in the 'power of confession'.

'Confess your sins and God will forgive.' Of course all this does is hide the crime under the 'cloak of the confessional'.

[no_hypocrisy]

25. Padre, we can ban assault weapons AND

deal with troubled kids.

[KPN]

26. Did you say Priest or Asshole?

[Initech]

28. OMFG!!! That's his solution? I'd leave and not come back.

[WarGamer]

29. Every example you provided has had school shootings.

Continental Europe has had 270 school shootings recorded...

Asia, Africa and Australia have all seen school shootings, a school in Uganda saw 42 killed in a recent example.

[ShazzieB]

30. I actually agree with him about one thing.

His solution to stopping school shootings is that we should take the time to talk to and console troubled, mentally ill, bullied kids.

This is not THE solution, but it's definitely something there should be a lot more of, along with better gun control laws, not instead of them. But the way a lot of schools (don't) handle bullying is one of my pet peeves. It's become fashionable for schools to give a lot of lip service to fighting bullying without actually doing much about it. But then schools have too much to do as it is and not nearly enough money to do it properly except in very wealthy districts, and GOP lawmakers are as reluctant to fund schools and human services adequately as they are to pass sensible gun control legislation, so...?