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Zorro

(17,305 posts)
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 10:32 AM Wednesday

After the FSU mass shooting, nobody wants your feeble prayers

The kids ain’t all right; the kids are scared — and furious.

Thoughts and prayers.

On Thursday, April 17, a 20-year-old boy, a student, walked around FSU’s sunny campus, firing a handgun. Two dead; six injured.

The response from our elected leaders? The usual: “Thoughts and prayers.”

The governor of the State of Florida said he was “praying,” adding, “We are all Seminoles today.”

First Lady Casey DeSantis: “Praying.”

Sen. Rick Scott: Also “praying.”

The president of the United States called the attack “terrible, a shame,” then blew off any suggestion of gun control reform, saying he’s a “big advocate of the Second Amendment.”

Maybe he missed the praying memo.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/04/29/after-fsu-mass-shooting-nobody-wants-your-feeble-prayers-column/
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After the FSU mass shooting, nobody wants your feeble prayers (Original Post) Zorro Wednesday OP
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If prayer worked on these shootings get the red out Wednesday #2

Response to Zorro (Original post)

get the red out

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2. If prayer worked on these shootings
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 10:55 AM
Wednesday

then why hasn't it? These assholes have been at it for decades.

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