On Monday we find ourselves once again dealing with tragedy as children and adults were murdered after a person with a gun opened fire in the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. At least three children and three adults as well as the reported 28-year-old murderer, who remains unidentified as of the writing of this story, are dead.
The Covenant School is a Christian private school. There are no more thoughts and prayers that will end gun violence in our country that have not already been said every day in that facility since it was established in 2001. Thoughts and prayers are not made to curb the evils of humanity, they are something between oneself and whatever they believe to be their creator. Laws are what we have to help build a framework of civilization. Most Americans would like some form of gun control legislation, or gun safety laws if the word “control” is too much for sensitive Second Amendment snowflakes to hear.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre came out for her daily press briefing on Monday and was forced to begin the day by saying that while we don’t know all of the details, we do “know that, too often our schools and communities are being devastated by gun violence.” She pointed to the Biden administration’s many executive orders around reducing gun violence, but also said that while the Biden administration was trying to do its best, there is real action that needs to be taken by Congress.
More specifically, Republicans in Congress.
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“We must do more. And he wants Congress to act because enough is enough. In his State of the Union, the president called on Congress to do something to stop the epidemic of gun violence, tearing families apart, tearing communities apart. How many more children have have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban, to close loopholes in our background, in our in our background check system, or to require the safe storage of guns? We need to do something. Once again, the president calls on Congress to do something before another child is senselessly killed in a preventable act of gun violence again. We need to do something.”
The Republican Party remains worthless on the matter of guns. Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee was busy glad-handing Ford Motors officials. He finally got around to tweeting that he was “monitoring” the situation “closely,” adding: “As we continue to respond, please join us in praying for the school, congregation & Nashville community.” Let’s just leave this here.
Sen. Rick Scott attempted a new angle on the impotent “thoughts and prayers” response Second Amendment fetishists usually give: an angry thoughts and prayers response, tweeting: “We need to consider an automatic death penalty for school shooters. Life in prison is not enough for the deranged monsters who go into our schools to kill innocent kids & educators. Pray for all facing the unimaginable in Nashville. This is horrible & must stop.”
Yes, “deranged monsters” will be stopped if they are murdered by the state without a trial moments after they have killed a bunch of people. Maybe Scott can give the lethal injection to the dead shooter in this case? That will send the signal! Scott is proof that thoughts and prayers aren’t even effective at ridding the United States of Scott, let alone gun violence. Here’s a response for Scott:
Here’s another conservative who has blood all over his hands.
This is what Christian conservatives in the United States stand for now.
And another reminder: The reason we do not have common sense gun laws in our country is because of money. Just money.
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