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Post by Drifter on Jun 8, 2022 22:18:05 GMT -5
House Republicans Suggest More Prayers Would Solve Mass Shooting ProblemShooting survivors and victims' families addressed the House Oversight Committee on gun deaths. Republicans, though, blamed lack of prayer, not guns. According to House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), if everyone had just prayed more, 19 children and two teachers might not have been massacred by a gunman in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school last month. The House Oversight Committee held a hearing Wednesday on gun violence and heard testimony from survivors and families of victims from the Uvalde and Buffalo, New York, mass shootings. The speakers included an 11-year-old who covered herself in her friend’s blood and played dead as her classmates were killed. Gohmert complained in a House floor speech that Democrats “sure don’t want to hear any more about prayers” as a solution to the issue. “They’re disgusted hearing about prayers,” he said. “Look, maybe if we heard more prayers from leaders of this country instead of taking God’s name in vain, we wouldn’t have the mass killings like we didn’t have before prayer was eliminated from school,” he added. Scalise used a similar line of reasoning in a news conference, arguing that “we had AR-15s in the 1960s. We didn’t have those mass school shootings.” “We actually had prayer in school during those days,” he said. You can read more HERE
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Post by notbob on Jun 9, 2022 8:07:02 GMT -5
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Post by tnthomas on Jun 9, 2022 12:00:37 GMT -5
House Republicans Suggest More Prayers Would Solve Mass Shooting Problem Maybe if we all started praying more we would have LESS House Republicans, which would solve the Mass Shooting Problem!
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Post by birdgal on Jun 9, 2022 14:21:46 GMT -5
So, how's that separation of church and state thing working out?
Sure. God has no idea what's going on so He needs more humans to ask Him for help.
If you do decide to let God know what's going on, please don't bow your head and close your eyes. While you aren't looking evil men like this slime ball will rob you while your not looking.
Just sit down, pray, and shut up while the evil doers snuggle up to all their donations.
Hell is too good for this wicked slime ball!
This new brand of republican is looking and sounding more like the Taliban than the grand old party.
Nothing grand about these deceitful thugs.
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Post by notbob on Jun 9, 2022 17:07:45 GMT -5
So, how's that separation of church and state thing working out? Sure. God has no idea what's going on so He needs more humans to ask Him for help. If you do decide to let God know what's going on, please don't bow your head and close your eyes. While you aren't looking evil men like this slime ball will rob you while your not looking. Just sit down, pray, and shut up while the evil doers snuggle up to all their donations. Hell is too good for this wicked slime ball! This new brand of republican is looking and sounding more like the Taliban than the grand old party. Nothing grand about these deceitful thugs. C'mon birdgal, tell us how you really feel.
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Post by birdgal on Jun 10, 2022 11:40:17 GMT -5
LOL! OK. That made me laugh. Thank you. I really did need to laugh today.
So it's all the guns fault? It has nothing to do with angry young men, fearful and frustrated, people? All we have to do is shut up, get on our knees and ask God to stop all this crazy?
Hello! He is God. You mean he needs for us to tell him what is going on? How mighty and powerful is that? Give me a break. You get on your knees.
Have you been doing that and how's it working out?
We need to take control and take charge and get rid of politicians who gladly take money from people who make and sell killing machines.
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Post by 2old on Jun 10, 2022 12:13:06 GMT -5
While they're on their knees praying, we need to be in the voting booth.
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Post by birdgal on Jun 10, 2022 12:32:15 GMT -5
Well said, 2old!
I think these guys, these so called politicians, need to behave more like a politician and less like a minister or a priest.
If I need spiritual guidance I certainly wouldn't seek out a politician. Would you?
It sounds like these so called politicians have no idea how to govern. It's easier to tell people to pray instead of governing. Maybe we can find a minister who can govern.
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