Religion
Related: About this forumDoes anyone here think thoughts and prayers
is an appropriate response to yet another gun massacre?
Chipper Chat
(9,982 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)they may as well be saying, "sorry guys, I get paid handsomely to look the other way."
Bluepinky
(2,316 posts)unblock
(54,052 posts)it's the refusing to do anything else about it part that gets me.
forgotmylogin
(7,668 posts)We need to start screaming. Silence doesn't help.
Response to Voltaire2 (Original post)
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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
(527 posts)Feel all better now, Florida?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Comatose Sphagetti
(836 posts)Please feel free to pound sand at your convenience.
Mariana
(14,951 posts)Skeptics exist, therefore school shootings happen. Who can argue with logic like that?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Glad I missed that hateful troll.
Thunderbeast
(3,523 posts)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
(26,485 posts)ought to instead do something substantial, like write letters to lawmakers and make it clear that we demand change.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)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 The 1986 GOPA needs to be repealed.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
(52,144 posts)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
(48,195 posts)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
(60,428 posts)incredible egotism of some people - so did god or jesus or whoever just not like those that got killed???
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)But an actual solution would require rejecting the NRA money and regulating weapons of death.
MineralMan
(147,299 posts)Thoughts and prayers help only the person thinking and praying.