'Miss me with your thoughts & prayers,' Ayanna Pressley declares while advocating for gun control



In a tweet advocating for gun control, Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts declared, "Miss me with your thoughts & prayers."

Pressley called for "universal background checks," an "assault weapons ban," "comprehensive red flag laws," increasing "the purchasing age," "closing the boyfriend loophole," "& more," and then went on to claim that "gun violence is a public health crisis and we must legislate to save lives."

The post earned pushback on social media.

"No," Ryan Petty wrote in response to the Democrat's comments. Petty's daughter Alaina was one of the victims killed in the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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"Because things always get better when the government gets involved," Dr. Mark Young wrote with apparent sarcasm.

"Translation: The existing 10,000 gun laws and regulations on the books have done exactly nothing to stop violent crime in this country. So let's do some more gun laws and regulations," someone else wrote, adding, "Why am I skeptical?"

"It's hard to always be wrong about everything, but Ayanna’s efforts have been unstinting," someone else wrote.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

In addition to promoting gun control, Pressley is also a climate alarmist who has claimed that "climate change is an existential crisis and environmental justice is racial justice."

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'We believe in prayer': Top TN official boldly defends prayers after massacre at Christian school



The director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation boldly defended prayer on Monday as an appropriate response to atrocities.

After three children and three staff members were brutally gunned down by a transgender perpetrator at the Covenant School in Nashville, the trite discourse about prayer not being sufficient was reinserted into the national media narrative.

But at a press conference, TBI Director David Rausch affirmed people who believe prayer is necessary in the wake of the massacre.

"Again I want to echo what chief has said in reference to the great support and the great teamwork that has been taking place here, as well as sending our heartfelt prayers to the families, to this community of these victims," Rausch said at a press conference.

"Now, I know there’ll be people who want to criticize us for prayers. But that’s the way we do that in the South, right? We believe in prayer and we believe in the power of prayer. And so, our prayers go out to these families," he continued.

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To demonstrate empathy for victims of atrocities — such as mass shootings — people often offer their "thoughts and prayers." It's a way to show solidarity with those impacted by the tragedy despite having no personal connection to it.

But "thoughts and prayers" do nothing to prevent gun-violence crimes, argue gun control advocates. Mocking people who offer their prayers, in fact, has become commonplace in recent years. One progressive radio host, for instance, went viral on Monday after he observed that prayers did not prevent the tragedy in Nashville.

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Rausch explained at the press conference that TBI investigators were assisting local law enforcement with the officer-involved portions of the incident. The agency will also provide investigative oversight, he said.

Bodycam footage showed how, within a matter of minutes, police officers entered the school, located the perpetrator, and ended the massacre by shooting the shooter dead.

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'They weren't praying enough': Progressive radio host goes viral over vile reaction to Christian school massacre



Progressive radio host David Pakman appeared to suggest on Monday that the victims of the Covenant School massacre would not have died if they had prayed more.

"Very surprising that there would be a mass shooting at a Christian school, given that lack of prayer is often blamed for these horrible events," Pakman said in a now-deleted tweet.

"Is it possible they weren't praying enough, or correctly, despite being a Christian school?" he added.

The point of the tweet, Pakman later claimed, was to mock Republicans for offering "thoughts and prayers" after shooting massacres as opposed to advocating for gun control.

"I'm not mocking the faith of the slain children, I'm mocking the absurdity of every Republican who sends thoughts and prayers and does nothing else to actually stop the scourge of gun violence," Pakman claimed on Tuesday in response to outage against him.

However, those who cite prayer after massacres do not argue that a "lack of prayer" would have prevented the massacres. Rather, they invoke prayer as their response to the atrocity.

Despite his defense, there were a glaring lack of references to Republicans in his initial tweet. If the point of his tweet was to score political points against Republicans, why not actually include "Republicans" in the tweet?

Indeed, people did not believe Pakman's defense.

Not only was it pointed out that Pakman said nothing about Republicans, but his exact words were "is it possible they weren't praying enough." The "they" was understood to refer to those at the Covenant School, a Christian school, because there is not another antecedent to which the "they" could possibly refer.

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Before deleting the viral tweet, Pakman expressed surprise that he had generated intense backlash against himself.

"Some people are upset with me about this tweet," he said, in a now-deleted tweet.

Interestingly, Pakman appeared to suggest, in another now-deleted tweet, that he only deleted his viral tweet because he was being attacked online — not because he is sorry.

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'F*** your thoughts and prayers': Democrat drops F-bomb in statement about Michigan State shooting



Michigan state Rep. Ranjeev Puri, a Democrat, dropped the F-bomb in a statement about the recent shooting at Michigan State University.

The 43-year-old shooter killed three and wounded others, and also reportedly ended his own life.

"F*** your thoughts and prayers," Puri declared in his statement, before going on to offer "deepest condolences" to the school's community.

"What happened in East Lansing is unfortunately far too common. Going to school in America, whether it's pre-school or college, means risking your life every day to the threat of a mass shooting. Yet all we have offered up are empty solutions — traumatizing active shooter drills and bulletproof backpacks," Puri said in the statement. "We do not need to live like this. The United States is the only country where this happens. Where mass shootings have left us desensitized, waking up each day to a seemingly never-ending horrific cycle of gun violence."

\u201cToday, we begin to collectively heal from the horrific events which transpired, tomorrow we work. \n\nMy official statement regarding the Michigan State University shooting is below:\n\nFuck your thoughts and prayers.\u201d
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"Thoughts and prayers without action and change are meaningless. Our office will continue to work tirelessly to pass common sense gun reform immediately. We will not stop until our students can attend school without fear, our communities can attend places of worship in peace, and our society is safe from senseless gun violence," he said.

Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina was killed in the 2018 shooting at a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, called Puri "disgusting."

"You are disgusting. Have some respect for your office and to the families who have lost loved ones," Petty tweeted.

But gun control activist David Hogg, who was a student at the school when the Parkland shooting occurred, expressed support for Puri: "We need more politicians like this," Hogg tweeted in response to Puri's statement.

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Democratic NJ governor tells conservatives to 'shove their thoughts and prayers' you know where in emotional tirade against gun rights



Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy renewed his calls for more gun control legislation on Monday, following a weekend of gun violence in Buffalo, New York, and other cities across the country.

In an emotional tirade at a media event in Hackensack, the governor also chastised conservatives and other gun rights advocates for mourning gun violence while still standing up for the Second Amendment rights of Americans, telling them to "shove their thoughts and prayers" where the sun doesn't shine.

"Cue the expected and pitiful expressions of thoughts and prayers from those held so powerfully in the grip of the gun lobby," Murphy said in response to the race-based mass shooting in Buffalo, where an 18-year-old white supremacist killed ten innocent black people at a Tops supermarket and wounded three others.

Murphy then lumped conservatives into a fringe far-right camp that espouses the so-called "Replacement Theory," which suggests that minorities are "replacing" white people in the U.S.

"And as it pertains to Buffalo, cue the hurried backpedaling from the right-wing talking heads and politicians who have so freely and openly peddled the garbage 'replacement conspiracy' — I can’t bring myself to call it a theory — and who can’t possibly believe that the words they’ve poisoned our airwaves and rotted our civic dialogue with could actually come home to roost," the governor said.

"I think every single one of them knows where they can shove their thoughts and prayers," he added.

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The governor said that "it is well past time for outrage and action" and for Congress to "step up and pass real nationwide gun safety legislation."

Murphy also expressed concern over an impending Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, where justices are set to decide whether or not a New York law that effectively prohibits residents from receiving a concealed carry permit for self-defense is constitutional.

The Supreme Court decision is expected to dramatically affect gun laws nationwide.

In New Jersey, Murphy hopes to pass a radical gun control package that would, according to NJ.com, "change how firearm owners in the state are required to store their guns, ban the future sales of .50 caliber guns in the state, increase the age people can buy shotguns and rifles in the state from 18 to 21, and mandate gun dealers in the state keep logs of ammunition sales, among other moves."

Critics, however, have argued that the new proposals — like almost every gun control proposal pushed by Democrats in the aftermath of shooting tragedies — would do little to stem violence. Rather, they would only accomplish placing a greater burden on law-abiding gun owners, hampering their ability to protect themselves and others.