The second amendment has been turned into a marketing tool by the gun industry. AR 15 type guns are the most profitable guns for companies to sell. Queue the bs talking points from right wingers. As we march toward the next mass killing.
The second amendment has been turned into a marketing tool by the gun industry. AR 15 type guns are the most profitable guns for companies to sell. Queue the bs talking points from right wingers. As we march toward the next mass killing.
They are???
Are we supposed to care more because they were praying? America lost its soul when we didn’t do anything after Sandy Hook ELEMENTARY. 451 MORE school shootings since (now 452), probably won’t change the GOPs stance on giving guns more rights than people.
As long as Republicans control Congress we're going to have school shootings. That's just a fact of life unfortunately.
Sadly even when they don't control Congress, they will block bills if they hold 1 house or if somehow those bills get passed then the SC will declare it unconstitutional.
Blue states must pass strict gun laws since the red states don’t care if their kids are murdered or preyed upon by pedophiles! 😡🤬
Blue States have very strict gun laws. If we have shootings, they generally got the weapon out of state.
True
Many blue states have but people get guns in red states and bring them to blue ones. Example, a lot of guns coming to Chicago come through Indiana.
This. Indiana border is about 45 minutes from the centre of Chicago.
Unfortunately you’re correct. Something’s got to give.
They don’t care
Should we care what SCOTUS says anymore? I think this court has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that precedent be dawned and the constitution is wide open to interpretation.
The pro life people who wail about killing fetuses don't really care about children dying.
These monsters must face the penalty of death for these mass murders
I wish we had it here in MN. But the shooter killed himself. Which he should have started with and saved everyone else the heartache and grief.
It can and should be installed. And I agree the shooter should have started with himself
nice but F Frey
This will not end with MAGA GOP in charge. Trump's police state will not fix this. The GOP Does not value Children's lives. Protection ends at birth.
Religion is the worst thing that has happened to human race.
It's the GUNS. Get rid of the GUNS.
Fuck the Supreme Court
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Nothing will be done because it makes money for the Congress & others in government not even counting the gun makers themselves. A Republican congresswoman had a puppy she didn’t want anymore because it didn’t behave as she wanted so she shot it dead! Perfect example for children!
I had a neighbor who prayed to god to help her pick out a good used car. Apparently he/she had nothing better to do. The car she bought was a piece of crap. No apologies from god 😏
By the last 100 years, it has been proven that in a church is the most likely place for a child to be harmed. Proove me wrong MAGA.
Americans just don't care. 75M Voted GOP, 125M were #TooLazyToVote, and too many of the #UnableToVote did NOTHING to influence these 200M Americans. They did this THREE FUK'N TIMES. They just don't give a shit.
Id argue its also the dems for never having put up a truly meaningful fight against republicans since at least GW Bush. People have been wanting something to vote for, not just against.
So many completely disenfranchised people that see fascism on one side and the other side saying "Well, life is shit and it won't get better under us, but hey, at least we're not *full* on fascist right?" Not an inspiring message to really excite people, especially after decades of degrading qol.
They listen to donors over the base and basically sabatoging themselves thinking that all this will just blow over and everything will be "normal" again and can continue raking in AIPAC money. Even as shit as republicans are, the dems are losing support faster.
The dems need to realize there's no going back and need to pivot now or lose again and doom us all under fascist dictators.
T definitely didn’t win all 7 swing states; he didn’t win legally…
200M Americans don't give a fuk. You obviously missed that part.
Doesn’t matter, had he not had Musk on his side he wouldn’t be prez.
They really dont...
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Damn.
Prince's home town.
I know. That's why I chose that.
I miss him. He was a musical genius.
He was. I was listening to some music he made while playing around with higher frequencies the other day. He never released it, but after he passed it popped up on spotify. It was really nice. People will never understand that level of genius.
Kids shouldn’t be shot no matter where they are. Ever.
Nothing will change until Citizen's United is overturned and there is major campaign finance reform.
Trump loves executive orders. While most are idiotic, how about one I can support. Ban guns...
The country must do more about automatic weapons and sensible gun regulation. Children should not be sacrificed so some guy can feel more powerful because he has a deadly weapon. The Second Amendment was never intended to protect this.
We certainly need to do better for the children! Since the Federal Government has not been able to make something happen, why don’t states start making gun access more restrictive? Of course many states won’t do anything, but might be worth the data if some do. Prove stricter gun laws work.
We ❤️🙏🩵🌟✨💔🙏
😡😠🤬😠🤬😡no words.
It just goes to prove that if you change nothing, then nothing changes. I've lost count of the multiple death shootings in the USA, and the only gun laws I ever hear about are like Texas loosening them Some people in power like massed shootings, it's bizarre
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The adults need to stop with "prayers" and have community safety standards for all guns, hand and long.
Another shooting in MN. THE VIOLENCE NEEDS TO BE STOPPED.
I T 'S T H E G U N S . I T 'S T H E G U N S .
Our weekly massacre of innocent people I am utterly numb to them at this point I was myself in school when Columbine happened. In college the 1st time for Sandy Hook We don’t care about murdered children here in the U.S. at all, & that’s simply an observation at this point
We all know exactly which laws and policies need to be put in place in order to stop these tragedies from happening. MOST countries in the world have them, and America has the highest level of violent gun crime/mass shootings in the world without them.
EVERYBODY in the United States knows exactly what they need to support and who they need to vote for in order to prevent tragedies like this from happening again. The majority of them just CHOOSE not to. Year after year, decade after decade, election after fucking blood red election.
We're praying for families, community & lawmakers. It is time to reduce gun violence. 1 victim is too many from mixing mental health issues & guns. Reapply Reagan's law to rid military guns from communities. Screen better to prevent these tragedies. Vote out lawmembers who accept $ from NRA.
The GOP (Gang Of Pedophiles) don't care. They make $$$ off of mass shootings and have gone out of their way to ensure more happen. WHY do Americans keep voting for these monsters who, if they aren't raping your kids, want them killed?
Today is Wednesday. Americans will have forgotten about this by Friday.
But we'll talk about gun control.........for a minute........until the next shooting.............then we'll talk about gun control......for a minute........until the next........................
We can't talk about gun control today. We must wait until Americans have forgotten all about it.🙄
If this president wants to be tough on crime sign a freakin bill banning the assault rifle! Stop sending troops around for photo ops! He isn’t tough on crime cuz he’s scared shitless to even suggest it
they obviously weren't praying hard enough. Or maybe they've been praying to the wrong god.....
If prayers work, that means there’s more people praying for more dictatorships, more war, disease, natural disasters, misogyny & children starving, & being shot to death than aren’t.
Yet ANOTHER senseless, heartbreaking TRAGEDY, that NEVER should've happened!😭Thoughts & prayers WON'T FIX it or HEAL the PAIN these parents are going thru! GUN CONTROL CAN PREVENT the NEXT ONE! When I was a kid everyone DIDN'T have access to GUNS & we DIDN'T have MASS shootings like this!🤬
sadly, too many "christians" in this country need to replace "In God We Trust" with "In Guns We Trust" ... if every gun in America vanished tomorrow, we'd all be fine... perhaps even better than now.
Nothing excuses this. In America children seem to be disposable rather than protected. It’s unforgivable.
But abortion is murder🙄
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You make a point mommy by the way can we be friends
Thoughts and prayers may have been personal genuine responses for the first few shootings. But the ability for ppl to access and use guns when they're angry or when they want to intimidate others is the problem. In 2025 thoughts&prayers don't solve that.
Can we turn "thoughts & prayers" into stricter gun safety laws?
They shoot children because they can’t shoot back. The ultimate cowardice. Heroes with guns keep them just in case a dictator comes around, just for show.
😢 Often the case of a minority misusing 'technology' that had purpose, then co-opted for greed/power over others. I grew up w long rifles to procure family food. Some in family 'collected' guns. But if some ppl can't handle the responsibility of using weapons, guns shld be unavailable to them.
That’s a hard “shld!”
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Odd how many times it’s, “The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is same bad guy with a gun who committed a mass school shooting but took the cowardly way out by committing suicide”. Seems like that’s a pretty good reason to prohibit semi-autos specially designed to be weapons of war.
One of my favourite 'gun stories' is an Inuit hunter I knew. Went out for the entire summer with ONE BOX OF SHELLS for his Lee Enfield .303. No shot unless it was clear. At one point actually harvested TWO caribou with one shot. THAT'S a gun owner. Feed yr family. Feed yr community. Not yr ego.
Love this story
No waste. Those things fire a long way. Only shot once and that was enough. Now I shoot the 💩.
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We had an incident this week of a would-be mass shooter armed w/ AR-15 & 700 rounds who wanted to go on a hunting expedition in Westfield Topanga Mall (Woodland Hills, CA). Fortunately his gun jammed after firing off a few rounds (he was discharged from Army for schizophrenia & PTSD in 2023).
Hey feef enjoy your day.
Initial explanation was it was a domestic dispute over child custody (version that travelled the World), when it turned out he didn’t know the women he stabbed after gun jammed; he left a manifesto where he expressed hatred for women & children. Sadly, aborted mass shootings don’t make the news.
Absolutely no reason to have one. Although these days.
The dictator is here. He is Trump. MAGA won’t turn them on Trump, they’ll turn them on children
We have a dictator now. Where are the supposed heroes? Working for trump’s ICE no doubt.
You’d never be able to tell because of the masks. They’re using total head masks now just in case. One benefit for normal people is their peripheral vision is probably crappy.
This doesn’t answer my question: Where are those heroes now? Alleged militias like Proud Boys serve violent racist authoritarian interests. None are here for national protection. Assault weapons, meanwhile, are used to intimidate and slaughter innocent Americans.
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Oh, I am SO stealing this!!
It IS a good response to the t&p responses after shootings. But sorry - not mine. I try to record/give credit for photography where it's obvious it's new and creative work. But I'm not good at recognizing original memes so they all get shunted into subject folders anonymously. 🥸
Truth. If thoughts and prayers worked we wouldn’t be having this conversation
well, we all now know, without any doubt, that well armed militias are not for fighting an oppressive government.
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Super shocked that prayer failed to do anything. Again.
1/2.The overall violent crime rate declined during the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act,which included a 10-year ban on certain semi-automatic assault weapons.After the ban expired,mass shooters were more likely to use assault weapons in their attacks, leading to more fatalities.
2/2 One study found that between 2010 and 2019, 59% of high-fatality public mass shootings involved a semi-automatic rifle or assault weapon, up from 31% before the ban expired! Republicans don’t give a damn about the facts they just like the NRA’s big 💰! Get big money out of Politics now!😡
Beyond words....
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If they don't care about kids in Gaza starving to death, getting sniped in the face, firebombed, etc what makes you think they care about your kids? They will use any excuse to take our rights away right now, don't fall for any facades of benevolence.
Republicans: “Shit! Now what??!”
Funny how very other country found ways to prevent it.
Guns don’t kill people, Republican inaction and greed kills people.
It’s the fucking guns
Lol
So why isn’t he protecting our schools instead of the Guard picking up trash in DC?
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…and the RepubliCONs dance…..
With Satan.
How many more children have to die before we have better control of guns in the US?
Don't hold your breath friend 😔.
Yup, not in my lifetime.
Raping Children and Shooting Children. AMERICA IS FINALLY GREAT AGAIN IN 2025
Amen to that!
Fucking awful!
John Roberts has so much blood and guts on his hands and chest and face......
The Democratic Party, mourns the loss of life, but lets keep in mind the suffering of those accused. They have had a incredibly hard life, no matter how they identify. Please keep your hearts and prayers focused on the oppressed people of the patriarchy.
On the Republican side of the aisle in particular.
Only in the US, guns are more important than innocent children. Fuck the NRA and Republicans…go to hell.
Where are all these so-called Christians in this Administration? Not one peep out of them, and yet they're so worried about crime in Democratic cities with black mayors pure and simple
The United States makes up 33 percent of the combined population of these 36 countries; however, it also accounts for 76 percent of public mass shooting incidents and 70 percent of victim fatalities in these countries. rockinst.org/blog/public-...
Funny how countries with gun restrictions have much lower rates
And again, the same old conversation will happen, one side will argue about more laws to prevent such shootings, and the Republicans will say "NO"
Republicans don't care about life outside the womb.
They don't even care about life in the womb. They just use it as an excuse to oppress women.
The NRA is satanic ‼️
FBI in charge of vigilance for domestic terrorists using YouTube has been otherwise running errands in Bethesda for President
When they banned assault weapons during Clinton's administration..mass shootings went down 33% I believe.Ban assault weapons not books so these little kids get a chance to fucking grow up.Screw your second amendment rights when it comes to weapons of WAR!They don't belong on our streets in America.🥹
Nobody needs ar15 it's ridiculous. I hate when they say we use them to hunt cause that's bullshit
Agree. Just another NRA/MAGAt talking point and excuse. Republicans once again have blood on their fucking hands.
Yes, they do. My heart breaks for those children, the families, and the community 💔 😢
The NRA is paying a lot of money for those thoughts and prayers.
Maybe I am blessed to not give a shit about the price of eggs, or the crime rate in blue cities (even though I live in one) GUN CONTROL, FUCKING GUN CONTROL is my kitchen table issue!
I heard that part of the press conf up to the end. Raw, real, and - I just have no more words.
Thoughts and prayers are not working. If they did we wouldn't be here
Today on : America erasing itself from history part 1000000
This is America, where 44% of Republicans say that Americans will just have to get used to mass shootings. Hopes and prayers is all we get.
Our government leaders are very willing to sacrifice our children on the alter of the NRA!
Our political leaders need to do their jobs . Pass gun sense legislation to protect the innocent. Do not hide behind prayer
Thoughts and prayers never do a thing. Just placeholders to put distance between the vile acts of gunmen and the inevitable inaction that won’t follow.
And the national guard is picking up litter in DC because : crime. Heaven forbid the president and his cult followers would attempt to reduce the risk of gun violence with any scientifically proven measures that all other democracies use…. Just more reason to be angry and dismayed
Well, that is our life now... MAGAts with guns and bombs.
This angers me! When will Americans wake TF up and demand action! I’m a gun owner; however there’s nothing in my being that says I need an AK weapon!
You’re so right & thank you😢
All gun owners should be registered with a local militia.
Republicans must be celebrating, because they actively intervened to make this far more likely. And I don’t want to hear “too soon” anymore; Republicans have forced a violent gun culture where this happens so often that any given moment is “too soon” after the last and not long until the next.
Another senseless killing of our children here in America, every Republicunt has blood on their, because they've always blocked any legislation on gun control. When Dems were in charge under President Clinton assault rifles were banned, with a 40% reduction in shooting deaths.
When U slimey Republicunts got power under Dubya, U let the ban expire, would not renew ban, shootings increased over 200%. You guys are not only fascist, but a death cult.
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😪 so very sad and heartbreaking 💔
You should hope that children in the USA can be safe but so should the children of Gaza, Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan and all over the world, whose people are suffering, be able to live in peace and go to school without being shot and killed.
People don't realize, there are over 400 church shooting a year in America, although most go unreported if there aren't any fatalities
But DC really needs troops to protect it! And Amtrak can't control their trains. Way more important to TACO.🤬
Awful, awful, awful. So sad for those families and so tired of hearing that this happened again.
If prayers work, that means there’s more people praying for more dictatorships, more war, disease, natural disasters, misogyny, children starving, & being shot to death than aren’t.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS And child rape/pregnancy. And dead women being used to incubate a fetus. And trafficking. And racism. And hate. And bigotry. And intolerance. And poverty. And homelessness. And greed. And apathy. And disability. And loneliness. And isolation. It's disgusting as fuck.
1/2. Our system is so corrupt we can’t even get a fair trial for all the victims of Epstein’s crimes! He was the biggest child trafficker ever! And, We can’t even get a look at Epstein’s files because the President was connected to Epstein’s dirty business! Get big money out of Politics! NOW!😡
ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY!!! AND limit how much money can spend on campaigns. AND require them to pass a civics test. AND require divestiture. AND a comprehensive criminal background check. AND -- make them live on the median salary for the area they represent.
It’s the patriarchy rearing it’s ugly head all based on this.🔯✝️☪️
I should have added, it’s ironic this event happened on catholic property- one of the richest land owners in the world. They’re so wealthy but can’t afford security for their congregation. Did this happen because the priest is a pedo?
Did it happen because it was a tolerant Catholic church instead of one that sides with the felon? Did it happen because the shooter was abused by someone affiliated with the church? Was it due to children of color attending that school? We don't know.
We don’t know yet. I feel for the children, and those who survived. They will have ptsd for years.
She was a hardcore neo nazi, so likely part of the crowd that believes Catholicism is a part of Judaism. And in turn also seeing Catholics as Jews that should be exterminated.
Just coincidentally,a certain crowd is hyperfocussing on her being trans over being a neo nazi with "6 mil wasn't enough" gun decals. Guess they need to save their skin after their ideology incited another school shooting again. Just like the Aurora shooting.
The FUCK Is wr --- never mind. It's a goddamn cult.
How are you this morning? I’m forever your sister. 🥰 I listen to The Line yt channel. It’s a call in show for theists to explain their reasons for belief in the existence of god. They can’t. Some are stupid, others so brainwashed they can’t accept reality. Religion = gaslighting 101! So sad.
Meh....not sure yet, but thanks for asking. I'm disappointed the orange toddler is still wasting oxygen. I'll have to check out that channel. I spend far too much time on YT watching music reactions. It gets me out of my own head, where I also spend far too much time. How's your day going?
YEP. Patriarchy. Racism. Misogyny. Intolerance. Elitism. Exclusionism. Hate. Hypocrisy. Bigotry. Arrogance. Hubris. Deliberate ignorance. Greed. Hunger for power and control. Entitlement - "God loves us more than you because we believe and you're losers," not the "I have money and you don't" kind
We believe in reality sister.🥰 You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
This is how the world we live in is getting worse. 🥹
"And dead women being used to incubate a fetus." I hate that this is a real news story that actually happened in real life. It's like the premise of a Cronenberg film.
if prayers worked, Donald Trump would have been a pile of ashes years ago
You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
This man needs to stop giving up responsibility to fix things and start shutting the fuck up.
Have we seen enough slaughter of innocence yet? Have republicans seen enough to limit guns, to take semi-auto AR-style rifles off the streets yet? High velocity bullets from AR-style rifles liquify tissues/organs. For God’s sake, do something - Trump wants to be a hero, here’s his chance.
This cycle of mass shootings and children being slaughtered will continue as long as the GOP and MAGA are in charge and the sick gun culture continues in this country!!
I couldn’t agree more!💯🎯
It's all because of trump and GOP Republicans for not passing stronger gun laws .they don't work for the American people trump works for self and that's it
Yep they’ve undone every possible regulation that could help. It’s also thanks to Scalia on scotus. I believe he redefined the 2nd amendment, which was pure BS and another give away to the gun industry. Every regulation Democrats have managed to pass they have undone.
Just the sort of excuse Trump needs to go into Minnesota, UNLESS the shooter happens to be a Republican because the optics would look bad. Of course sensible gun control could have prevented this along with adequate mental health counselling, but that will never happen.
Unfortunately, The shooter was Trans, He/She/They had been observed in class drawing and writing homicidal statements and drawings. He had been sent to the school counselor many times and spent hours in her office. And Yet, No one at His/Her School will ever speak a word about knowing beforehand.
After two Democatic Pols were shot Tump never mentioned that tragedy
Just miles away from today's school shooting.
I'm so sorry to hear that. That's much closer than I've ever been to such a thing. The shock waves through your community must be horrible. All I can say, and i know it's inadequate, don't be afraid to mourn. Some how I hope you eventually find peace.
We ALL are.🙁
Well he did mention it, but only in the context of him saying that calling Gov. Walz would be a waste of time. He is only bothering to pretend to care this time because they will bastardize the tragedy of children being murdered as an attack on Christianity.
He never called the governor or the families. He didn’t ask for flags at half staff, he didn’t send the FBI of offer help. How about his own shooting?! Where did that investigation go?
Enough Enough Enough I, too, fear that he will use this as a reason to go into Minnesota. My heart goes out to these families and the community. Nationwide common sense gun laws and banning assault weapons is the bare minimum requirement NOW-not later. Sto
I have money on it being MAGA
This is the shooter www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Apparently, it was a trans woman turnto10.com/news/nation-...
I don’t want to throw water on the mental health aspect, but truthfully these people are the last ones to want help. They usually kill themselves, because they’re way too far gone. It’s about access to guns. Period.
Not under the trump Fascist regime.
Republicans have no time and no money for anything but guns and the guys who shoot guns.
Outrage isn’t going to stop the senseless killings. We need legislators with backbones
And for that we need campaign finance reform—-and for that we need to address the free speech as donation aspect of Citizens United and for that ….
Another example of the Absent Landlord.
Thoughts and prayers should be banned words. Fucking sickening to the core.
The ten commandments did not save them.
There have been more than 140 shootings at U.S. elementary and secondary schools this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database.
My twins were with Kendrick in Salt Lake for a robotics competition right before this. Kendrick would walk the floor & help other kids from smaller schools w/fewer resources. He was well respected & known to all. We are KILLING our kids with our obsession with guns. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_Sc...
One of the first Aurora police officers on the scene was a friend of ours. A mom & leader in the Buckley AFB boy scout troop. Her life has never been the same. The trial took YEARS. Ther's no going back after seeing what she saw. Her health took a turn for the worse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Au...
The 'cost' of gun violence isn't just the lives of the victims. It's those who clean up the messes. The survivors. It's those who realize how close they came to losing someone. After the STEM shooting; our school district was on high alert until Covid. Just like Columbine...
There have been more than 140 shootings at U.S. elementary and secondary schools this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. This doesn't happen in Canada, just saying. Most of us do not own guns.
A few years ago a friend of mine and her husband were contemplating a move to the US for a new (better) position in the same company he worked for in The Netherlands. They chose not to go and said that the lack of safety in US schools, they have four children, was the main reason. Can’t blame them.
I'm against 2nd Amendment killings.
Imagine if Donnie had stationed the NG,FBI or others at our nation's schools instead of having them pick up trash in DC so he would not be offended.
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GOP 🤮 AGAIN FAILS AMERICA!!! How much more are you all willing to accept from this cult cares less if your family is safe or not??? New gun laws and checks are LONG OVERDUE AS GOP WONT DELIVER!!!
Blue state.
Not everyone votes blue
The fact that matters to you at all in this situation is part of the problem. These are children! Who cares what color State they live in. What happened to the United States of America? SMDH
The 🐔 💩 GOP fail AMERICA ON A WHOLE being unwilling to enact and be a part of realistic new sensible gun laws and restrictions along with better more sophisticated background checks! They fight it and deny it non stop & SAY “ AWWW WE PRAY MORE FOR YOU”!! 🤮🤮 The children were PRAYING!
Yes, background checks. Unstable trans people should not own guns.
Dude you must be really bored today, your rage bait is everywhere.
Yup not too happy!!
Two children dead, 17 injured in Minneapolis school shooting. Maybe try a different response this time.
That right religious does nothing..
Gun care and health control: Sums up the most violent country in our history. Your kids are being murdered en mass and nothing happens except escalation. But hey, the constitution and the only thing you ever hear about, the second amendment, which is more important than anything else over there 🤯
Nothing about the 1 MILLION abortions last year....
Fuck off, pedo supporter, and go play in traffic.
What about the 1 MILLION Covid deaths back in 2020, thanks to the Orange Turdfucker in charge? That's worth a note here. Or maybe you don't remember that he was president during that time... 🤔
That would be china's fault.
Nope. That's not how any of this works. It's like calling the influenza virus "The Spanish Flu." So here, you're renaming Covid as "The Chinese Virus." Is that it? Handling Covid in the US is not China's responsibility. It's that of the US President and our Pandemic Response Plan. Which 🍊💩 tossed.
Where did covid come from again? I forgot.
Where did the Flu come from again? I forgot. Where did Ebola come from again? I forgot. Where did tetanus come from again? I forgot. See how silly this is?
We didn’t have control over how COVID spread across the globe, but we did have control of the response. Countries around the world were tackling COVID in the best ways they could, but Trump brushed it off. His weak, delayed response fucked over a lot of Americans.
Stf up.
WHAT ABOUT…..!!! Try to focus, asshat.
That's your own fault for swallowing...
Do you know the reasons why each of these abortions occurred?
Mostly for contraception.
Abortion isn’t contraception. Contraception prevents pregnancy.
Sorry. It does prevent the birth of the child
It sure does prevent the women from giving birth
Wait. Abortion doesn't prevent pregnancy?
People use it as contraception...duh
I'm increasingly under the impression that God is useless when everyone has guns.
sadly, too many "christians" in this country need to replace "In God We Trust" with "In Guns We Trust" ... if every gun in America vanished tomorrow, we'd all be fine... perhaps even better than now.
Republicans arm all shooters.
Fuck religious people and their pointless superstitions
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My thoughts and prayers are that Republicans start to care more about kids than their damn jobs and pass common sense gun control that a MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WANT.
The number of gunshot wounds in city hospitals all over the country is staggering.
Another day, another shooting. Children dead and injured. Why is there never enough white hot burning rage about this? I don't want to hear Democrats telling us that their "hearts go out.." etc, etc, etc. I want to hear them screaming "ENOUGH OF THIS FUCKING SHIT!!!!" at the top of their lungs.
The “old Biden” passed regulations that were repealed by Trump & this Republican Administration. Put blame where blame is due. Not the Dems. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/p...
I blame the Republicans far more...but the Dems are not without blame. To say otherwise is silly.
Dems are too scared of gun enthusiasts and the gun lobby to do anything meaningful
It's a Blue State. $5.00 says trump never mentions a word about it. UNLESS it's a brown/black or Muslim shooter. Then he will send in National Guard
He said he was praying for them. 🙄 What a joke! The f’er does not pray!!
It's a little late to be praying for them. Action a long time ago might see them still alive. The pro life president.🙄
He'll say they were trans. Another "good" reason to have their existence eliminated by law in the US.
Well it turns out he was a Hitler loving Nazi so I guess Yamtits will stay silent
Men and their fucking guns!! Sick hobbyists don’t mind dead children BECAUSE MEN WANT THEIR HOBBY!!! And yes, every 1000 shootings, it is a woman— the truth is MEN with guns are the problem. The only purpose of a semi automatic gun is to kill people, usually children. SICK HOBBY!!
White Man - "Lone wolf" Anybody else - "This person represents their entire group of choice, and proves they're all violent!"
Oh wait, I liked this in error. This is a shit opinion. That is all.
got any good reasons for holding your oh so venerable opinion?
He's a MAGA and like the entire group, would prefer you not talk about guns or excuses they use to let white men off the hook constantly, but rather that you'd blame "mental health". Which they'll promptly stop talking about in a week or two,
Are you sure about the Maga? I mean it tracks but i heard info to the contrary. Just asking because I was wondering.
All these shooter/ murderers are Mentally ill. Other countries have mentally ill people, I would assume. And yet they don’t have the same number of children murderers. That’s unique to this gun-love culture.
Oh. I agree.
I can see that. Just can’t help blowing off steam. Over and over
I'm talking about the poster you're responding to, not the shooter. We know very little about him right now.
Oh okay. Thanks
because the only time they want to talk about it is after a shooting. After all, the NRA harps on mental health after every shooting, but if you mention maybe stopping people with certain mental health problems from owning guns? You're hassling "law abiding gun owners"!
Oh no, I just don't want you to needlessly demonize an ethnic group, because it's wrong no matter what color it is. Compare mass shootings from 1950-1979 to 1985-now, and make note that Regan put the final nail in the coffin of mental health in America in 1981. Weird correlation, right?
I wonder why no other country has this problem. Other countries have issues with mental health, but for some reason they don't have a nut going off and shooting up a building every week. I wonder why?
And this is my opinion on YOUR opinion: youtu.be/ICZ06gYpu6w?...
Yes Men who hunt for food, defend their family and their country. Defeated Hitler and the many wars won against tyranny. And you know who could solve it? A man, a man who will gladly put the national guard at every single School in the country. You want that?
You are part of the problem, not the solution. You aren't nearly as "open and accepting" as you think you are, and your clear lack of "tolerance" proves it.
I am not at all accepting of gun toting men shooting children. You are? Sick.
Where were you last weekend when dozens were shot in Chicago?
How many of those were shot by one guy?
Where were you? Saying this happens a lot is not a rational point against my post
Isn't there some other more creative, positive way to express their emotions rather than to shoot and kill innocent people?
In America: Guns > god There’s no other conclusion.
I hope every 'guns rights' activist after a certain age thinks about this: We went to school without a worry that some freak was going to shoot and kill us or our classmates and teachers. We knew that kind of security. Why would you not want this same sense of security for today's children?
Their kids and grandkids are probably either being homeschooled or in private school.
This was a private school. I remember seeing interviews with survivors of one of the TX Church massacres and they were asked if they supported better gun regulation. Nope. It's a hill to die on I suppose.
Frey is speaking facts. Shootings continue to happen. So, Maga cult/Republicans who keep using that tactic are clueless. Only way is to get physical action going to try for this to be less of a thing happening.
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This is Another UGLY, HORIFFYINGLY SAD, DISGUSTING ACT OF SICK-MINDED TERRORISM IN AMERIKKKA‼️‼️‼️
By next week nobody will even remember. Hell, 2 senators were assassinated in the same state and even the governor won't talk about it.
He’s talked about it plenty. Maybe lecture the RepubliCONs, huh? smh
Not even the news talks about it, cool story though! Yeah, why would anyone want to sound an alarm that MAGA politicians actively encourage their voters to murder folks? Why would anyone want to talk about that? Smh
Blame falls fully on the GOP & their DEVOTION to the NRA. SHAME.
I cried when I read this on the news! I hope this was an act of rage by a terribly bad person! We definitely need to control gun ownership!
Any time, any place , any one. Other than that, America is a great tourist destination.
Also the possibility of being kidnapped anywhere with no legal rights and being jailed indefinitely without habeas corpus isn't a pleasant sensation. I will never come to the US until this continues. I don't want to fear being too tanned when I pass by a policeman (masked or not)🤷🏼♂️
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People just have to stop voting for politicians that oppose gun control. By voting for these assholes, they are saying that the the kids don't matter.
😱……😞…Did they apprehend the person , that did this ?
He killed himself.
Unfortunately, there are a few dozen knuckleheads with guns who ruin it for everyone else. How to find and prevent them seems to be impossible.
Unfortunately, as we see everything start to become a struggle to survive in this country, violence will increase too and it's always the innocent that suffer. I just read an article about how in south central PA, we're having a significant increase in child abuse & deaths since 2024.💔🇺🇸💔
Well I guess this means MAGA's hatred of The Pope has moved beyond just hateful rhetoric.
Why is it that there never seems to be a "good guy with a gun" available to stop this carnage before it starts ?
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I don't think kids should be shot anywhere. It's the guns, not what people are doing when they're shot.
Whatever you do, don’t toughen up those gun laws….. 🤪🙄🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Another case of 👇
The GOP refuses to vote yes on passing gun laws that will make owning weapons of war illegal. They refuse to do this not because of the 3nd ammendment, but because of the heaps of money the NRA bribe them with. To the GOP, money is more important than the lives of our children. Stop voting 4 GOP.
Damn, I wish we had a editing button on here, but i should have read this before posting this.
It is simple to “copy post text,” then “delete post,” then copy it in the comment bar and edit it to your satisfaction prior to posting it again.
Yeah well I didn't think about that. Didn't even notice that I wrote 3rd amendment instead of 2nd amendment until someone pointed it out to me. That's on me not reading my post over before posting it on here. I'm not perfect, no one is but I admit my mistakes.
I did not mention it to critique you. Just letting you know that there is a way. I miss typos on the regular. Finally figured a way to correct if I choose to.
They *claim* it's because of the 2nd amendment, but it's really because they want to kill people they don't like. If they really cared about the Constitution, they wouldn't have voted for Donny McFuckFace.
I meant to say 2nd amendment 🤦♀️. My damn fingers always get me in trouble 😤
I've come to the conclusion people here are pretty fucking fluent in typo. I know I am. Apologies if it seemed as if I were correcting you.
No, I'm glad you pointed that out to me. I really should have read it before posting it 🤦♀️. How embarrassing! Thank you for pointing that out!
The NRA donate plenty of money to them.
Yup. I call those donations what they are. Bribes.
And it’s going to continue until the end of the country because “mah guns”
In America this is called Wednesday. You can't call yourself moral and just shrug off this many mass shootings.
Make a list of every Rep or Senator who gets and A from the NRA and don't elect them anymore. Ruin the NRA: Don't give them a dime and ask your friends to do the same. Primary every candidate who hold the NRA views.
This is heartbreaking. But, Sandy Hook taught us what’s really important to the majority of this country so let’s not play shocked or outraged by this horror - NOTHING is going to change. Guns are loved more than children!
And Pedoplicans put a guy in the White House who feels that we should just get over it. Horrible.
New law: for every child that dies in mass shooting, or any shooting, one republican in office who’s funded by the NRA must sacrifice himself. It’s only fair. I’ll be thinking and praying about this new law.
Number of bullets stopped by prayers to date = 0 and counting
The people for letting an 11 year old give birth to daddy’s baby
A married 11 year old to be exact.
Yeah I mean we're not talking about fucking Neo here. It's such an absurd, brazenly bad faith line.
Whelp, there was that one time God saved trump just enough for an innocent nearby firefighter to get killed.
Some totally deluded people would say "God decided it was their time" How TF could you have a functioning brain and believe in a deity that would CHOOSE for your child, any child, to be taken out this way? I can't. Sorry, I guess I'm "intolerant" of that kind of belief system.
Religion is just a bunch of weirdos making shit up. As a kid I figured that the Bible was a bunch of bullshit.
Anybody that walks through a children's hospital and believes in an "all loving" god is a sadist.
Attacking traditional religion at this moment in time is repulsive and reflective of a sick and twisted mind.
Traditional religion is the root of all evil. BTW, The shooter was a Christian.
Is traditional evil also responsible for all the evil you have perpetrated in the world?
Shooter was a trans person who wrote "Where is your God?" on one of the clips used in the murder of children. It sounds like they share your worldview.
My worldview is not what you think it is. The trans perp was mocking religion. Disrespecting it. Same as what occurred a couple of years ago in Nashville. Neither trans perp embraced a religious p.o.v. Although an atheist, I can & do respect others who have religious faith as part of their lives.
I was talking to the other guy, who is clearly a sociopath
My apologies. The overlap of convos gets a bit confusing, sometimes.
BTW, It's called a "magazine".
Your god must have provided the ammo.
And we found the Republican politician in the room.
I didn't cast my vote for Trump. I identify as an indie-conservative. I am an atheist. Do go ahead, though, and continue to disseminate lies and gaslight others. That's what the modern day political left does. That and spread hate.
Traditional religion is what's enabling children being killed in Gaza and Evangelicals imposing Fascism in America.
And the way the Netanyahu government manifests itself is a bastardization of Judaism, right? At then end of the day, so-called traditional religionists go vote for the extreme just because they think a shared religion makes them moral.
Islamists are in a league of their own.
The Pediatric Oncology wing is heartbreaking ❤️🩹
Though basically no one believes in the Greek or Roman gods anymore, they make much more logical sense to explain how life works: powerful beings with human personalities, in charge of different things, and acting in arbitrary and capricious ways for their own reasons.
People worshiped specific gods for specific reasons, but understood that whether a pray was heard/answered was up to whim. Whereas with the Christian God, we're expected to believe that a terrible thing that happened to a good person was the result of a "good" plan by God. Hard to buy the latter.
That's interesting. So at what age do people in a hospital have to be in order to believe in a loving God and not be a sadist?
It depends on the amount of grooming.
The point is that people get sick and people die. The fact that it hurts someone's feelings does not negate the existence of God. Moreover our perspectives are biased as first worlders. African mothers, for example, lose children all the time.
You have a psychological disorder. Seek help and stay away from guns.
Sorry I guess you weren't ready for a thoughtful conversation. Have a good Labor Day weekend. 😎
Agreed.
I pretty much lost all faith when my grandma was dying of cancer (I was 12, I didn't have much of a worldview back then). Because she was a good person, and she suffered so much at the end. There is no loving god.
Since you have had that experience first person, you are aware of the need to assist those suffering at the time of their passing. Please support Compassion & Choices.
I'm a pediatric Phlebotomist and working with sick children was the final push that made me an Atheist.
We are all born atheist. Welcome back.
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That clip came too mind immediately- sums it all up perfectly. Sad to say, mind.
I might add: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pOI... It's only 16 minutes; and quite straight forward. Since this was an Oxford Union Presentation, a debate, an actual debate, the other side is heard as well, and once again cannot dispute the facts of Shermer and his fellow presenters.
^^^^^ This. Just this. You can believe in God all you want but dont tell me he is all loving and kind. That shit ain't flying. At best, if he did at exist, he is indifferent.
If god exists IT’s a fucking asshole, probably a HE- the patriarchy!
He's a prick.
God is an egomaniac. Think about it. creates a living being, give it food and fresh air and a mate, then demands the creature worship him and when the creature doesn't do as GOD demands, the creature is tossed out of its home and forced to fend for itself. AND STILL GOD demands worship.
Creates humans with flaws and then holds them accountable for them.
so "GOD" is also a hypocrite. good to know. thankfully i learned that when i was very young and have never gone back to the church. " GOD" created US in HIS image, so he is also flawed , but only punishes US for ours even though HE is the one who gave us flaws.
"You are all sinners." Speak for yourself asshole.
Sin does not exist. It is a human invention. When I say "flaws" I mean human tendencies, instincts and emotions that are seen by religions as being sinful, which they are not. Religion is anti human because it characterizes basic human traits as being shameful, for instance sexuality
The other problem is that free will is an illusion. If you cannot act by choice from your nature and nurture how and why should you be held morally accountable? Some people DO need to be restrained in some fashion from harming individuals and society but that is a different question, not a moral one
"You were addicted to porn, why?" - God "Because you made me that way" - Man "Not an excuse. To hell forever!!- God God must be Judge Snails.
He doesn’t exist; another religious fantasy for keeping rule over people.
If God existed he certainly wouldn't be worth worshipping. Not in this world.
This is not at all about God . It is about stupid humans.
Man created all gods. The sun god was #1.
Exactly, man alone is to blame not some God that people choose to believe in.
True.
It takes two tango.
A shooter and a gun.
Well, if you believe the Bible, he's the kind of sick fuck who told an old man (Abraham) to take his beloved son up to the mountaintop and kill him to show his love for his god. And Abraham, having the choice of many gods, still said "Yeah, I'm gonna convenant with THAT guy." And here we are. SMH.
Agreed! All of the above and if he "answers someone's prayers", he's actively chosing to not answer others. And it's worship me or else.. do whatever I say or else.. nah.. nothing about that is something I want.. it's the original cult.. look at how much death has come because of Christianity. 🤮🙅♀️
"Get on your knees and worship me or I'll drown your family." No way I'm worshiping that asshole.
Exactly. And the whole "kill your first born son.. oh wait jk it was a test!" Fuck all the way off.
"Spread blood over your door or I kill Jr." That God is sick in the head also.
And kill first born Egyptians because of a king that they had no choice in having. What a vicious fairy tale
that was an Old Testament quote ,before Christ was even born.
Starting with the crusades centuries ago
That's because the core concept of Abrahamic religions is being better and more deserving of salvation and God's love than others. That's why they refuse to rely solely on faith and keep trying to prove their superiority through thousands of years of violence and fairytales.
There were plenty of cults before, but Christianity is the most destructive force this world has ever seen. And once it coupled with white supremacy… 🚀
Modern Islam like a world on that. They are pretty up too.
The ideologies imposed by both are quite bad, but I don’t think there’s a real competition in terms of global impact on different peoples and places.
Hmm, "worship me or else", that sounds like another big prick who has been in the news a lot lately...
Right? So it really makes sense that christians are following suit.. it's what they're used to
This!! This fucks me off so much! It’s the entitlement of praying and believing your prayers will be answered over others when there are children literally suffering and starving on the daily all over the world. But Jim prayed harder for his football team to win so it’s his turn this week. 🙄
If prayers work, that means there’s more people praying for more dictatorships, more war, disease, natural disasters, misogyny & children starving, & being shot to death than aren’t.
As i understand it , in Christianity generally, prayers arent supposed to get specific results anyway...
Who knew God’s Will boils down to a popularity poll, as if God is looking at hoi polloi crowd in the Coliseum to decide whether the gladiator lives or dies? If they don’t get it after a gunman murders kids praying in church, it’s unlikely they’ll get it from Larry David, but it’s still funny…
That is funny. It’s ironic so many kids were swept away from a bible camp in Texas where hog is big & now kids shot at mass in a church. God hates religious kids more now apparently.
As big as waste of time as watching the Kardashians!! 😂😂 spot on!
God’s too busy finding people’s keys when they’re late for work. Gotta prioritize these prayers, folks!
And deciding sports competitions.
I agree with Jon Stewart said many years ago. Maybe we are a second grade project God put together at the last minute and forgot all about after he was done showing it.
And saving bibles during a hurricane.
Prayers working is more of an inside job on the prayer themselves
Prayers are praying for prayers?
I get really irritated when people say “We have our health, $, safety, beauty, blah blah blah, we’re blessed”. I always correct them and say “No, you are not blessed, you are LUCKY. When you say ‘blessed’, you are essentially saying that a family who doesn’t have those things is CURSED”.
100%!
🎯💯 correct. We should all be terrified of organized religion in general😒
IMO, organized religion is the root of all evil. Ugliness committed in the name of a god; such BS.
You should read the Old Testament 😳 God slaughters pple left & right, forces pple to sacrifice others in his name, creates wars, drowns the entire human race, destroys civilizations, forces people to wander the desert & starve to death. He’s rather selective w that whole answering prayers thing.
Its almost like God doesn't exist and its random luck if prayers are answered or not. But that cannot be. /s
Watch out, that’s blasphemy! God will smite you for such a terrible sin! …or he won’t. Ya never know w that guy, he’s pretty volatile. Ethically & morally ambiguous, too.
Oh I know! My mom attempted to raise me as christian and in Sunday school etc.. but I fought tooth and nail every Sunday and my teacher got mad when I asked questions 🙃. I also "failed" confirmation 🤣.
Ditto.
LOL how did you fail confirmation?
OH! Also when I worked at the gas station at Costco, a pastor and family came through and I somehow managed to get myself "reborn" 🤷♀️ so I should be good I guess..
I didn't believe lol. My pastor said at graduation or whatever that I was "still working on my faith". Shit you not. 🤣
I was raised Catholic, forced to go to CCD, & I was *constantly* asking Qs 😅 How did Noah get all the bugs & birds on the ark? Why aren’t there any girl apostles? Did Jesus call Joseph dad, even thou God was his dad? How can a person become a pillar of salt? How did that 1 guy live for 900yrs?
Right!!! But they don't like that cuz they don't have an actual answer.
Prayers are for the one praying
Religion was man's first and so far, best con.
We are miraculous products of evolution. Humans are also very stupid and superstitious. God is a construct of superstition. You can't force me to "believe" anymore than you can decide that a god likes YOUR flavor of superstition better than someone else's.
Well, the way I see it. They killed his kid who only tried to heal and teach people to be kind to each other. I think the problem is man blaming deities for their sins and then being mad that the deities turned their backs completely after demonizing the tools that Jesus used to heal.
The demiurge, is far from indifferent.
The Christian God is a fascist. And really really dumb. Free will? Are you stupid? You're God. Idiot. But i digress..... The whole religion is an oberobus. Just one hypocritical ideology after another. Christianity is an insidious cult. It's bred a planet full of lazy, stupid and hateful people.
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Castlevania S1 when Blue Fangs utterly destroys the power mad and murderous Bishop of Gresit theologically before doing him in physically
Yeah MAGAers forget the old testament where God was committing genocides.
The only way I can get on board with a God is via Deism.
If there is a God, is he “Good” or is “powerful”?….he can’t be both.
Kurt Vonnegut's God of the utterly indifferent is the only one that makes sense to me. All these great Christians who are absolutely fine with this happening frequently sicken me to my very core.
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God loves everyone! There’s just the small matter of how much money their parents have. That helps God with prioritizing the “loving.”
Or just stupid, stupid, stupid. The same people who watch pedoFOTUS take away veteran’s benefits, and say he loves the military.
Tolerance of it leads to fascism. Every time. Here we go again.
It’s not merely a belief - It’s a full “pay as you go” gaslight subscription - Abandon all sense of compassion and ethics, ye who enter here as you purchase your ticket to entitlement at “nonbelievers” expense
Slightly off topic, but the same people that say "god decided it was their time," are the same fucking assholes that are trying to speed up getting to the supposed Rapture. It's apparently okay to go against god's will if it serves your purpose is an interesting take on an all-knowing all-powerful
god you're not supposed to question. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🙄
William Lane Craig makes this argument
They also believe the disabied either did something wrong while still in Mommy's womb, or they don't have enough faith to get healed. They think God approves of conservative men beating the hell out of and raping their wives. They think child abuse is "discipline." The things I've heard....
CW:DV I have a son who had some issues with authority when he was young, and for 4 years he ran away every damn time he had the chance. The church told me to -- --duct tape him to the bed when I went to work. And no, I'm not shitting you. My daughters heard it, too.
That’s child abuse.
I know!!! I was absolutely flabbergasted. I worked 8-16 hour shifts -- at night -- as a nurse so I could support my kids after their deadbeat dad took the coward's route and hung himself. And they wanted me to confine him with no access to food, water, or even the bathroom. No way.
I’m sorry you had children with a weak minded person, I hear you, 👋but you’re stronger and wiser because you chose life and responsibility. When someone else tells you to commit child abuse and you comply, guess who would be charged if you did and got reported? We all know the answer.
When he was about 13 he started running away; it lasted 4 years. I found out where he was once and called the cops to go pick him up. They came to my job in the middle of the night (RN) and told me if I didn't take him home, they'd arrest me for failure to provide shelter to a minor. WTAF?
I tried to find help for him for a total of 7 years. I was denied at every turn. He broke things. He terrorized his sisters. His antics put my job in danger. I got to the point where I felt the only option was to surrender custody - until they told me if I did that, they'd take my girls, too.
Being poor and not having limitless resources to pay for therapy and treatment for troubled kids is hell. Nobody gives a fuck. They expect you to handle it ALL while also holding down a job so you have a place to live. Assistance is practically non-existent, and you have to be in poverty to get it.
Of course. I was a single mom, though, and the church tends to treat single mothers in a completely different manner. "He needs to spend more time with his father." The cross-addicted cheating violent bastard who abused us all and committed suicide after trying to kill wife #3? No thanks.
Unfortunately I hear you regarding all of that. Different country, different family, same fucking scene.
Yeah I hear you. I grew up in Falwell country, so I've heard that shit too
Intolerant my ass your calling it for what it is its hiding behind a bible to condone mass murder and is absolutely disgusting its why im an atheist no human being could possibly think there is anything ok with any of these murders shame on anyone who tries to justify this under any pretext
Epicurean paradox: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
I find that religion serves predominantly as a self-glorifying tool of assimilation and oppression rather than an actual resource for good works that make any kind of real difference in the world. They get the boon of feeling altruistic, while not actually doing anything helpful.
And before anyone comes for me, yes, religious people CAN be good, but not BECAUSE of religion. Show me a period in human history where religion did more good than harm and I'll shut up. Until then quit acting like religion itself is beyond reproach. Its an idea worthy of criticism just as any other
Trump classifies himself GOD, and he is allowed to smite whoever he wants. Trump being Trump killing kids and women are his version of patriotism.
Point a gun at those who spout off about God's decisions on life and death; more often than not, they will say, "God would want me to live!/would want you to spare me!" It's all about continuing their self-indulgent lives, using their deity as a spiked and bladed shield.
You are absolutely right!
I lost a child after 5 months of watching the hospital torture them. "My child wasn't meant for earth" and "God just had to take them." No. My child died because I had an underlying condition undiagnosed because the medical profession has been failing women since the creation of RELIGION.
When the foundation of the bible teaches knowledge is evil …its followers revel in ignorance
I'm not a fatalist who believes that; however I do believe in a deity that has been party to the slaughter of all sorts of people. In other words a deity does not have to fit your definition.
Or "God needed another angel". Really? So "He" decides to have a child murdered in cold blood because "He" needed an angel? What do people think it says to other children who might overhear? That there is a God who may decide to have them murdered at any time for his own selfish needs?
People do believe in supernatural deities and monsters that do harm (Satan, demons, witches, ghosts etc.) It's the voluntary adoration, worship and praying to this one en masse that blows my mind.
So, according to those wackos, God decided it was “their time” for the kids who died in the Texas floods? That’s just sad…
Reminds me of a witness on the stand saying god was with him the day he survived being shot by home invaders. His wife and child didn't make it, but somehow he thinks god was with him. If it were me and God was with me I'd prefer to have died with my family.
The world is exactly the way you would expect it to be if there was no god
My argument to that, "No, a human decided it was their time."
If you think God can actually intercede then you HAVE to think God lets it happen. God is either evil or impotent, which is why I stopped believing. Not going to worship evil, and no point in worshipping a god that's worthless
Trey Gowdy said "at least they're with Jesus now."
There is SO MUCH mental gymnastics involved there. They promote “free-will” to defend their “god” from blame, while trying hard as fuck to destroy everyone’s free agency with doctrine & legislation.
It all started with that god damn apple.
If that’s so, then I guess we should just scrap all laws and leave it up to god?
What's worse are those who say "thank god my child was spared!" I guess god didn't like those other kids??
They or their parents "sinned" in the warped minds of some religious people. It's how emotionally or intellectually immature people rationalize and cope w a reality that brings their "God" into question
Nothing worse than people thanking a deity for them being spared. So self aggrandizing.
CS Lewis famously rationalized his wife's painful death from bone and breast cancer as god testing him. Really demented stuff. Sold like hotcakes.
Testing him? What about her? Of what use is it to god to make her suffer?
I’m sure God says “stop calling on me to solve problems you can easily solve yourselves. I’m busy.”
Isn’t there an entire parable in the Gospels where Satan tries to tempt Jesus into doing this?
The ones I hate the most are the ones that say "(name of dead child) is with Jesus now."
Ugh. I guess if you need that to cope w the reality but I doubt it brings much comfort when you glance at their empty room every day. Maybe...it's the guns?
Did God command politicians give easy access to guns for criminals? I think you are reading that book incorrectly. You are flunking at religion.
I have that kind of intolerance too. It's so delusional, wow
My philosophy is that God wants us to do something about the problem, not abdicate our adult responsibilities and hope God will fix it.
I made this case to someone who has adamantly against abortion. I said if god is all knowing and omnipotent then he wanted the abortions to occur. She rage quit the job actually lol
It's because Christianity is a doomsday cult. Every time something bad happens and kills people, it is seen as an unavoidable sign of the end times.
Intolerance of stupidity is a virtue.
It’s f*cked up
“Mysterious ways” 🤦♂️
If they believe that their god is "in control," then that literally means they believe their god killed these kids or, at the very least, allowed it to happen. Christians wonder why we give them grief about their blind faith delusions and denialism to the truth. Your god won't save you. Wake-up!
If that's the case then the same is true for abortion
Meanwhile survivor's and their parents will thank "God" for sparing their lives while ignoring the fact that "God" tossed others under the bus. Religion is the oldest scam in history and is nothing more than a coping mechanism as we all run out the clock
Their god left the victims bleeding to death on the church floor. The first responders and doctors had to save them. Very telling.
Number of tyrannies overturned by the second amendment 0.
I guess, god is good all the time doesn’t apply here.
This country needs responsible…Gun Control!! 🤦🏻♀️🙏🏻
What the hell is going on in America this disease of hatred wrapped in self loathing and anger is growing daily. This must be stopped. These kids were targeted. This was deliberate intentional as they sat in church Praying! they are now angels in heaven ..
Nothing changes until we remove every single Republican from Congress. Every. Single. One.
Only correcting the obvious socioeconomic drivers of violence and self harm will move this needle.
Perhaps it’s time for a natl walk out for gun control! Teachers, students, shop owner, literally everyone in this nation is not safe from a whacko with an AR-15! Or what ever he’s so easily able to buy!
This sounds great. Need to get @sandyhookpromise.bsky.social and @gabbygiffords.bsky.social involved
Good idea
This makes me furious! These kids don’t deserve this sort of violence! No one does!
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Not a drag Queen. Not a trans person. Not a farm worker. Not a pregnant female. Not a surprise.
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Oh, well if Puppy Killer Barbie says it, it must be true.
Guns guns guns
Where is the National Guard when you do actually need them? Picking up rubbish in DC. Trumps priorities are all wrong
I agree that Dump is abusing the National Guard. But how would they have helped with this? A random psychopath starts firing into a church through stained glass with a semi-automatic weapon and kills two kids and injures 18. That can’t be prevented - oh, but gun control would help.
Absolutely gun control. My point being national guard is about homeland security which has failed here. Meanwhile they are picking up rubbish in DC. But gun control and potentially proper mental health care might of worked.
it's america...nobody gives a crap about dead children...sorry but it is true
So very f'ing sad.
Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over !
Just another day
man with gun shooting into the church pews through windows... this is America
Trump's America
how many kids have to die, till the US learns... take away the guns.... all of them. NOBODY private needs a gun. NOBODY
Nobody in Minneapolis or America is safe until we get control over our guns. Prayer won't protect us. Children aren't safe, Democratic lawmakers aren't safe, and their families aren't safe. More, real gun control Abolish ICE Demilitarize police Burn those camps to the goddamn ground
What a fucked up country you have. Leave the kids alone if you want to be constructive? Find better targets. The country is full of them.
but that would mean our legislators (of both parties) standing up to theur corporatr overlords. and thats never gonna happen.
Only a gun loving republican would offer thoughts and prayers. It isn't gods will, it's republicans blocking gun control...$$$ is their god.
It’s the GUNS GODDAMN IT!
The USA has so many people with uniforms, badges & guns, yet they struggle to deal with so many crimes. Maybe time for a rethink and work on prevention.
MAGAts: Dead children or being able to lie naked next to my AR-15. No contest.
The only praying that Republicans do after a mass shooting, is praying that the shooter is part of a community they routinely vilify.
And these shooters rarely are part of that community... As far as I've seen. I wonder why... 🤔 Seems like they're frequently Republicans.
Bingo
The idea of thoughts and prayers was over years ago. The pastor at my FORMER Catholic Church in Port Charlotte FL, Fr John Ludden, once stood at the pulpit and said "guns don't kill people." I wonder what he would say if, God forbid, a similar tragedy happened at his school?
Enforced tighter gun laws, take automatic rifles off our streets and thoughts and prayers won’t be necessary!
Automatic rifles are illegal you moron
Those who study history know the vast majority of murders are committed by GOVERNMENTS against disarmed civilians. Criminals don't obey laws, by definition. Disarming law abiding citizens just enables government murder. Those capable of nuance understand it's a choice of evils.
Wait till After the Revolt…
Nope. 75M Americans voted GOP, 125M Americans were #TooLazyToVote, millions of #UnableToVote did NOTHING to influence these 200M... THREE FUK'N TIMES. They won't revolt, because the vast majority of Americans don't give a shit.
That'll be fun.
If the people actually stand up for themselves, then i will join them. I've done my service to this country, now it's y'all's turn. If you want veterans' help, you gotta really want it. We should've been revolting November 6th, but people are weak willed and cowardly.
1000%! Instead of tweeting about it, we should be Occupying The White House every day until elections in November. We give trump a big pass when we stay home.
The man has to go. I'm extremely disgusted by the sycophants who give in to him on a daily basis. I never voted for this assclown. I'd personally like to give him a swift kick out of the White House and DC. This sack of shit shouldn't be here.
Completely agree! Actually, the majority voted against trump, he got 49% of the vote. That means 51% of voters voted against him. His lackeys in the Republican Party care more about keeping their seats than saving Democracy. He isn’t fit to be in office!
We should also remind the wealthy that taxes were the compromise. They took that compromise and wiped the asses with it. Time for talking and compromise is over. I call for a replay of 1789 France.
I hear that, but could you tell a lot of your fellow veterans to help the cause and quit voting Republican? And talk to the vets who participated in the attempted coup on January 6th.
I think you think there are a lot of Republican veterans. There aren't. However, the ones that are, definitely need to wake tf up. And the J6ers aren't veterans. Not a one. They're traitors and have been stripped of their veteran status.
Every single vet I know votes Republican.
Lol. You don't know many vets, then. Because most of the ones i know, vote blue. But, you know what? Y'all just keep demonizing us and see where that gets ya. I think i speak for a lot of veterans when i say, "If you want our help, earn it."
demonizing? Get a grip, I was giving a personal anecdote you can untwist your panties.
Sorry. I wasn't talking about the actual you. I was just ranting. Got lost in the moment. I apologize.
Not anymore, as they voted Trump they were removed from my circle
Good. I did the same....for the most part. Some are very closely related. Lol.
Hooah, I'm sick of us being used by political parties to further their agenda. Then we are always left out of the conversation and out of any help or promises kept.
Bingo.
The nation ought to have revolted in response to Trump’s January 6th insurrection, and failing that, in response to the pardons granted to the insurrectionists.
1789 will look like a walk in the park.
Why wait?
Why wait?
He won’t cancel them, that’s what the gerrymandering is all about. Please the passage: every accusation is a confession—fits nicely with what I expect them to do in the next election like they claimed was done to donnie in 2020.
Why wait? The red line is a blurry haze in the rear view mirror at this point.
Not Untrue! 🏆
Didn't you Yanks revolt hundreds of years ago? Maybe revolt better this time.
That is correct
Ban the sale of semiautomatic weapons, rifles and pistols. Don't get caught up in an argument about what an assault rifle is; ban any gun that fires on every trigger pull. Limit magazine sizes. Limit ammo purchases. Register and require safety training. Age limits. Insurance. Waiting periods.
What other rights do you want to ban?
False narratives and willful ignorance would be a good start. Restrictions exist on every right we have, including guns. The ones I mentioned on guns already exist, piecemeal, throughout the States. A federal approach would ensure that guns are no easier to purchase in Nevada than in CA or AZ.
But please convince the powers that be in your party to run on a “federal approach to restricting guns”. By all means run with it. The Democrats will be more irrelevant than they already are
A ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons would still allow lever-, bolt-, and pump-action rifles and shotguns. Revolvers would still be allowed for pistols. But the point would be to allow far fewer bullets to be fired as quickly and for reloading to take much longer, thus giving targets (school
children, co-workers, shoppers, churchgoers, nightclubbers, moviegoers, innocent bystanders) a chance to fight back or to run away. And some steps I mentioned are needed to reduce suicides or crimes of passion, or just stupid accidents. Safety training, storage requirements, red flag laws do help.
Why shouldn’t a person be allowed to own a semiautomatic. What if you’re a single mom who lives alone and has an ex with a history of abuse. You don’t allow her to buy proper protection which she has the absolute right to own?? Wow..
Does your hypothetical woman have any safety training, or know how to operate a pistol or a shotgun? Do her children have access to this hypothetical weapon? How many kids get killed by handgun or rifle accidentally every year? If she wants a firearm for protection, doesn't a 5 shell pump shotgun
or a 6 round revolver suit that purpose amptly? If her ex is such a threat, why haven't we got better, NATIONWIDE, laws against gun ownership by domestic abusers? (Actually, I'm pretty sure that did get passed in the Biden bipartisan gun package.) Does your hypothetical mom have a mental illness,
and if so, should she have a weapon she could possibly use against her own children? I'm not saying she shouldn't have the means to protect herself, but unless she's under siege by twenty wild hogs, she doesn't need a semiautomatic weapon. Semis allow a good shooter to kill many and a poor shooter
What books are being banned?
hiStoRy bOoKs, boOkS oN gEndEr eQuAliTy, rAcIAl eQuaLiTy… Not the smartest trumper are you?
No books are being banned. And yes, books about lgbtlmnop should not be allowed in schools. But unfortunately, they are not banned. Sick people can still buy them on the internet.
What is an assault rifle?
When we vote every treasonous corrupt Republican out and elect REAL representatives to represent us - we will impeach the entire Regime, impeach the corrupt SCOTUS justices, criminally charge everyone involved and pass legislation to tax billionaires out of existence and regulate guns…just to start.
This event will be forgotten by tonight. Welcome to America. Guns take priority over people every time.
Over 200 school shootings in two years. Says something is broken with regards gun laws.
Republicans keep putting guns above children’s lives. Kids are dying, and they still defend their stance. Would they stay pro-gun if it were their own child lying in a casket?
Frey sucks, but he got this statement right.
No one is safe under Trump administration of lawlessness. Armed civilians domestic terrorists roaming the street armed with these assaults weapons like they are in the military and we a third world at war among ourselves. America citizens are to walk the streets with these weapons on streets.
This was the 287th mass shooting this year. I wonder if the NRA were there to tell everybody that guns don't kill people, people kill people, why not, it's seems to have worked forever.
You're right, this is all blood money to try and cover up that we need to have far stricter gun laws, and now Trump passed a law saying we should allow mentally ill people to have guns, otherwise, we're depriving them of their right to shoot someone.
Dinosaurs had an asteroid, we get republicans.
That tells you that they're full of shit. It's all about $$$.
The unchristian I've got mine Republicans
Yup
Think about that. We still have 4 months left of the year and we are approaching 300 mass shootings in this country. There needs to come a time where people say enough is enough and do something about it. Thoughts and prayers clearly haven’t worked.
No, that’s next week’s message. The message today is, “Shame on you for politicizing this” or “It’s too soon to have that discussion”
287th?!?! Holy shit that's insane. Its not even September yet.
The media overuse of the word "mass" is diluting the meaning of the word and inflating the reported numbers. This was a mass shooting. Somebody unloading on their cheating spouse and their lover is not.
Mass shootings actually negatively affect NRA profits. It's why they usually need to look for a scapegoat. Notice how a chunk of people is just coincidentally hyperfocusing on the shooter being trans over her also being a vocal neo nazi with "6mil wasnt enough" gun decals.
maybe was raped by a priest like some of the kids in my county... that could warp one for a lifetime...
Circular reasoning which is a magats best defense
So WHY give people guns, if guns don't kill people, people do?
They'll tell you now is not the time. Until the next time it happens. Rinse and repeat.
I always find it so interesting that the NRA doesn't allow guns in when they have their hate rallies. Weird. I mean, I'm constantly hearing how a 'good guy with a gun' will save the day - and yet the NRA doesn't allow it.
287th mass shooting this year, and it's only the 239th day of the year
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Trump doesn't give a shit about children. Period.
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GUNS! This is my beautiful city! On Tuesday afternoon, one person was killed and six others were injured in a shooting outside a Minneapolis high school. Hours later, two more people were killed in separate shootings in the city. IT'S THE GUNS - always.
And to their families, or the children who are alive today, but maybe dead tomorrow when yet another shooter breaks into their school and starts shooting left and right.
The same people are already starting to post about abortion abortion abortion it would sure be nice if they gave a damn about living breathing children it would be nice if they cared about the lives of children who are abused under nourished lacking medical care lacking education but they don't
I came to the conclusion that those who call themselves "pro-life" are so until the baby is born. After that, they only care about that baby if it's a white, Christian, able boy. If any other skin color, religion, gender or with disabilities, then they don't give a damn.
The same people who support withdrawing USAID which will lead to 14 million deaths. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
When a system doesn't work for the people...what are you going to do about it?
Yeah, if you think somehow your child that attends a paraochial school will be spared, think again.
Even here God is saying ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. Fk everyone “pro life” thought and prayer.
I have LOTS of thoughts on this. Prayers, not so much. Why so many guns in this country. It’s ridiculous. I’m sorry for these people. Death penalty to the kid who did this!
Welcome to Gilead... The Christo-Fascist death cult...! 😡
Republicans don't care they want their blood money no matter how many children die.
When America decided to still vote for politicians that did not support gun law changes after Sandy Hook, it became obvious to me nothing would change. Heart broken for the families and pray something like this does not happen at my kids school. Sound terrible, but that is the America we live in.
I wouldn't consider praying about anything. These kids were praying and they were shot and two were killed. Apparently God doesn't seem to listen to prayers that much
Until we stop the stranglehold that the NRA has on this country this will keep happening! 😡😡😡
Agreed!
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and again expecting a different outcome. It’s absurd that the US can’t get their act together to end the gun problem. How many more innocent people will be slaughtered? Why don’t you care enough to make the necessary changes?
Sadly that is a fact guns guns
That’s pretty damn accurate..
Either God doesn’t exist or God is a massive narcissistic prick that doesn’t give a single fuck
What a fucked up country!
Stop hiding behind your 2nd amendment. Every other country has the same things you use as excuses (mental health, video games, immigrants, no Christ in some of our schools) and yet, our mass shootings are almost nonexistent. Toughen up your gun laws.
So take the Guard, Police, and Army off trash detail and put them in schools and churches.
Put them at gun stores and anywhere selling guns and ammo. Train them to do mental health Evals and safe storage checks. Make them interview those who own or want to buy guns and work with them for 12-18 months like in Manu countries where mass shootings don’t Happen Daily.