Tim Walz says he’s ‘sick and tired of hearing about thoughts and prayers’ following school shooting

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/06/colt-gray-transgender-tim-walz/

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  1. The thoughts and prayers people offered after every past mass shooting clearly have not worked. I wonder what makes some people think they will work *this* time (I’m actually kidding, I know what they are thinking, but I’m making a point here).

  2. Ya, we all are.

    But they’ll continue to defend guns and blame mental illness. And at the same time they won’t do anything to help people get mental healthcare because…socialism, or some other boogeyman term.

  3. I am just a europoor, but I can’t even fathom why the fuck people are so obsessed with having poorly regulated assaults’ rifles that are seemingly handed out to everyone.

    Like wtf do you need them for, massacring squirrels for hunting? Self defence ? (which I thought the police force existed to do), or is it just that funny to shoot at beer cans or whatever.

    Just the thought of school children going through shooter drills (which is apparently a thing) is just so completely fucked up.

    Oh and if you are that individualistic and don’t trust your neighbors or community, then why the fuck would you want to arm them with these type of weapons

  4. Anyone who isn’t a rabid 2A fanatic should be sick and tired of it.

  5. Well if you’re JD Vance you just say school shootings are a “fact of life”

  6. As best I can tell we’ve got 2 choices:
    1. Continue with guns as normal and make schools bunkers.

    2. Get more aggressive with keeping guns out of the hands of youth that might carry out a school shooting

    We’ve tried #1 and it’s not working.

    I’m with Gov. Walz. Enough wringing our hands after the fact, let’s engage and really try to get guns away from these troubled youth.

  7. “Thoughts and prayers.”, “It’s truly a shame there was no sign they’d ever do such a thing.”, “It’s a fact of life.”, these are the things they say about these awful, almost now daily occurrences. But no, talking about changing gun laws and reforming the way things are handed is beyond taboo, more people will cry about “Our rights!!!” and whatever the fuck pathetic defense they have. If your first thought to someone changing gun laws is for you to take your plastic lawn chair, whip it out and sit on your lawn with a bud light in your hand and your shotgun across your lap with a sign that says “Try and take it, see what happens!” then you are a part of the problem.

  8. I can relate to this,

    I’m not gonna speak for Waltz. But any time we have a tragety, or a mass shooting, Incomes the religious assholes offering their thoughts and prayers.

    But they never actually commit to doing something about it, Like sitting beside your bed at the end of the day and praying to god is going to do better than actually getting your ass off the couch and doing something about it.

    Thoughts and prayers are useless to the surviving victims. Either help solve the problem or stop virtue signaling.

  9. He says what we are all thinking. And he is right.

  10. The headline is a bit misleading, truncated, and I think it could be misunderstood if you are not already on-side with this.

    He said: **“I for one am sick and tired of hearing about thoughts and prayers *rather than actually doing something*.”**

    So, he is not being insensitive, but practical!

  11. You know what you don’t hear in America after a mass shooting anymore? “I never thought this would happen here.”

  12. Thoughts and prayers don’t stop gun violence. The only way to stop this is through responsible gun legislation which runs from background checks and waiting periods to assault weapons ban.

  13. Rather see something like tangible action instead would he? Sensible gun laws? How radical!

  14. I can only imagine the handwringing this will create on the right, but the empty ‘thoughts and prayers’ crap has become so overused it’s literally a meme at this point

  15. It’s weird because in so many places our most religious piously attempt to impose their God’s will on the world…”for the children”, but in this one space where men can intervene and make a difference the best they’ve got is “I’ll ask God to do it”. Then they say tell us this is the cost of freedom because their imagination failed to make a difference.

    This is how dumb we are.

  16. They’ve been praying for 58+ years. I think God has given his answer: it sounds something like, “do something about your gun laws.”

  18. Honestly, I’d rather Republicans say nothing at this point. Saying ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ is the equivalent of a giant middle finger to anyone who actually cares and tries to enact change but can’t.

  19. I visited Europe this summer. Multiple countries. There were no guns, there was no school shootings and most shockingly of all, people were living normal lives and the government wasn’t controlling everyone’s choices like the fear mongering gun nuts want you to believe will happen if we’re not allowed to have forty seven automatic rifles in our house. Americans are just fucking regarded

  21. Don’t worry Trump got the same treatment, thoughts amd prayers and then we moved on.

  22. I remember getting into a discussion with a guy who was pro guns. His argument was that if we took all of the guns away, people would still be able to buy guns and people like myself wouldn’t be able to protect themselves from robberies/murderers. I remember not being able to really move further in the conversation because of that.

    Genuinely asking, how do we protect ourselves from “the bad guy with a gun”? Would ceasing production of all guns stop this? What about people who buy guns illegally? Is there any way to really stop this? Other countries don’t have this problem at all and I know it’s a huge mental health issue too here in America. How do we stop our children from being murdered?

  23. Imagine how “us athiests” feel, hearing that absolute rubbish?

  24. It’s time for legislators to answer those thoughts and prayers by enacting laws which significantly dampen down these mass shootings to the point that when they happen people think, “Wow, it’s been a few years since the last mass shooting…how did this one happen?”

    These people saying they are “praying” should thank their Lord almighty that their prayers were answered through his designated agents, the legislators, instead of complaining about it. It’s practically blasphemy for them to oppose it, since they are saying they are always praying about it to stop.

  26. “Thoughts and prayers”. Swaying their heads back and forth turning papers. What is it going to take for them to change their minds? How much more?

  27. When guns have decimated all the schoolchildren in the country, the Republicans will continue to bore us to tears with their hypocritical prayers!

  28. Prayers do jack shit, it’s like asking Santa Claus for something.

  29. What really irks me about it is that it’s still the go-to copy and paste comment to leave everywhere on social media. It’s been criticized and joked about endlessly for years and yet all these morons just can’t help but say it over and over again. If nothing else these people should be ashamed for being so damn unoriginal. I know I would be.

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