Pence told Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs families that the way to stop mass shootings is more pr

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Shannon Watts?Verified account @shannonrwatts
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Shannon Watts Retweeted NYT Opinion

A-rated @NRA booster Mike Pence told Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs families that the way to stop mass shootings is “more prayer.”

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Lee in Iowa? @Lee_in_Iowa
4h4 hours ago

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Well, it's empty but for those nasty voices he hears and misattributes to God!
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coffee lover? @305Resistance
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Kate R? @KateRussillo
4h4 hours ago

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His biblical bromides make Ned Flanders of “The Simpsons” sound like Voltaire.
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Ruby Hued

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"Meek, passive acceptance" of gun violence accurately describes the whole @GOP.
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Ruby Hued

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He has a Pavlovian response to Mother's voice. She fills the space between his ears.
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Thalia? @DrTPappas
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Yeah, the empty space between Pence’s ears allows him to ignore cold hard truth:

[Madam45for2923]

1. So this people are elected to and paid for government office to come pray for us?

[Madam45for2923]

2. They are glorified super-duper prayers.!

[malaise]

3. Good 'effin grief

These people are afraid of their owners, the NRA

[gratuitous]

4. Might as well do that

Because the Republicans who control our government sure as shit aren't going to do bugger-all about it. As long as American voters don't mind Republican indolence, we can look forward to this ongoing nightmare.

But hey, now the Colombine Massacre is no longer in the top 10 for deaths in a mass shooting event, so America fuck yeah!

[world wide wally]

5. So, God has to do it all for weak fucks like Pence and the US Congress, I guess

Wasn't there something about "God helps those that help themselves" ?

[Ilsa]

6. That saying is a gop motto. Not at all Biblical. nt

[world wide wally]

8. Does it matter?

[Takket]

7. ironically this will probably piss off the NRA. They want pence telling everyone to arm themsevles

[backscatter712]

9. You'd think if prayer did anything it all, it would have worked on a shooting in a church. n/t

[angstlessk]

10. The victims WERE praying for god's sake

they were IN CHURCH!

IF prayer worked the gun would have backfired!

[Dem_4_Life]

12. Maybe they weren't praying hard enough

UGH!!!!!!!

[backscatter712]

18. Oh, looky, God was driving through a tunnel when that call came in on the prayer-phone.

Whoopsy-doodly!

[Stuart G]

11. Stupid and Insensitive ...We have heard this before, didn't work, won't work.

[GeorgeGist]

13. He's a chreep.

[Nevernose]

14. Dear Politicians:

Do your fucking jobs. Stop asking Jesus to pick up your slack.

[Initech]

15. "And Jesus wept", I believe is the next verse.

[3catwoman3]

16. I hope and pray, most sincerely, that...

...Pence is raptured soon.

[spanone]

17. Fuckpence

[ansible]

19. This is who we're going to get after Trump

And it scares me even more because unlike Trump, he's a true believer.

[struggle4progress]

20. I wonder what the earliest Christians would have said

This is from the second chapter of the letter of James: What good is it, brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says, "Go in peace; keep warm and be well-fed," but does nothing about their needs, what good is that? In the same way, faith by itself, unaccompanied by action, is dead

Perhaps James would have continued: But when you hear that people are being shot, tell them they should have had their own guns, and offer them your thoughts and prayers -- but do nothing more than that!

I have my doubts there, though

[jmowreader]

21. Does "praying for widespread Republican defeat" count?

[USALiberal]

22. If there is a God he is a piece of shit...

He lets kids die of cancer. And he knew the flood would kill millions but let it happen.