Mass Mass Shooting

And another school shooting

Another mass shooting and another opportunity for Republicans to give us empty thoughts and prayers instead of real solutions. You can’t find a solution when you can’t even identify the problem.

Today’s mass shooting just so happened to take place during a Mass.

An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old were killed while sitting in pews during a Mass at the Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At least 17 people have been injured. The students were from the adjacent Annunciation Catholic School.

Robin Westman, a 23-year-old, has been identified as the shooter and shot through the windows from outside the church. Westman identified as a woman and had changed her name from Robert to Robin. The right-wing fucknuts are going to love this, but they’ll ignore the parts about the mental issues and racism.

The shooter left a manifesto that called for the destruction of Israel and included racist slurs. Westman flashed a white supremacy sign in a video that showed the shooter’s massive gun collection. The shooter admired those responsible for the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, among others.

Even the shooter offered “thoughts and prayers” to the intended victims. So, quite frankly, every single Republican’s answer to this isn’t any better than the shooter’s solution.

Donald Trump offered thoughts and prayers to the families of those murdered today, which is even less effort than all the other do-nothing idiots whose only solution is “thoughts and prayers.” TACO doesn’t pray. He has more outrage over the Cracker Barrel logo.

A mass shooter murdered 26 people in a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017. Nine people were murdered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. A mass shooter killed nine at the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Promkunaram in Waddell, Arizona, in 1991. A mass shooter killed 11 at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh in 2018.

If thoughts and prayers aren’t going to stop murderers from killing people with assault weapons in places of worship, then thoughts and prayers are not working. Those places are supposed to be God’s houses, right? If God isn’t going to stop a mass shooter in his house, then why would he stop a mass shooting at a public school, university, or at a Walmart?

And again, this only happens here.

Since the GOP and NRA solutions aren’t working to stop mass shooters, there’s just one trick left.

Ban assault weapons.

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