How about we pray for the United States to come to its senses? I mean, let’s be honest here… smh 😦 I don’t condone after-the-fact praying of state tragedies when this nation, as a whole, continues to fail to protect its own citizens with preventative measures so what happened today can no longer continue to happen as easily as it does nowadays.
prayers mean shit when not followed by action. there’s a simple solution to this. i literally just got into an argument a few days ago with a colleague who was insisting that easy access to guns has nothing to do with america’s epidemic of mass shootings. yesterday he was praying for florida too.
i know prayers are a symbol of empathy and comfort but it leaves a bitter taste when these people did not have to die and there’s been a simple solution staring us in the face since the 90s, when two other countries (the UK and australia) experienced mass shootings, banned guns, and saw the number of deaths caused by mass shootings plummet to zero. it’s time to put our money where our mouth is. we are the only fucking country ON EARTH where this regularly happens. it astounds me that some people can’t accept why yet.
I’m with you.^^ And it’s never been a matter of IF it happens but WHEN so that the whole “pray for …” thing after it happens it’s kind of become a perverse joke. Especially when this really never need happen in the first place when implementing protective measures in our country. Yet so many here continue to look the other way and just whistle when it does. You may as well say that the US anticipates X amount of sacrificial lambs to the slaughter, using its own citizens as annual gun victim fodder as the price to be paid in order to retrain the 2nd amendment unrestricted. I’m far beyond sadden every time I see one of these so regularly now. I think my level of disgust that yes, here we are yet again, far exceeds any other emotions within me these days. This one was the magnitude of Columbine except that it’s just..not. Now it’s just this ‘oopsy..it happened again’ shameful reputation our country has acquired and for all the world to see..followed by how horrifically, unforgivably apparent it all is that the genuine motivation to truly prevent these from happening again is not at all a part of our countries priorities. These happening and people chiming in “thoughts and prays!’ Immediately after (something that could’ve been hindered in the first place by stricker gun control laws) almost seems like a pitiful tragic comedy that the US is doomed to repeat.
It is truly a wash, rinse, repeat in every sense and people aren’t seeing it from the bird’s eye perspective. Instead they’re just reacting and are prompted by the usual social media discussions that are pointless and ineffective. Just people talking amongst themselves, all stirred up for all of about 1 minute until they forget yet again. While I feel badly for those who have been horrifically victimized, this entire thing occuring so regularly with no end in sight frankly just sickens me.
The Everlasting Contrast 