Huffington Post, "Mass Shooting Suspect Devin Patrick Kelley Had ‘Connection’ To Texas Church"
Our prayers are with all who were harmed by this evil act. Our thanks to law enforcement for their response. More details from DPS soon. https://t.co/KMCRmOPkiM— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 5, 2017
Your *prayers* are with the victims.
Your *laws* are with @NRA. https://t.co/r7EX5MwjWw— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) November 5, 2017
Dan Savage:
Thoughts, prayers, God—why didn't anyone think of that before? If we'd only tried thoughts, prayers, and God after the last mass shooting then this one surely could've been prevented.
If you don’t have a plan to stop white men shooting up places of worship, concerts, or schools, you aren’t serious about stopping terrorism.— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) November 6, 2017
JUST IN: Texas church shooter was court-martialed in 2012 for assault on his spouse and their child and received a Bad Conduct Discharge— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 6, 2017
Ryan Williams-Jent, "‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Pour Out to Sutherland Springs, Site of America’s Latest Mass Shooting"
The Columbine school shooting shocked America. As of today, it is no longer one of the 10 deadliest shootings in modern US history.— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) November 6, 2017
Two of the four deadliest shootings in U.S. history have occurred in the last 35 days https://t.co/KsxEB2REA3— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 5, 2017
Senator Chris Murphy:
The paralysis you feel right now – the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen – isn’t real. It's a fiction created and methodically cultivated by the gun lobby, designed to assure that no laws are passed to make America safer, because those laws would cut into their profits. My heart sunk to the pit of my stomach, once again, when I heard of today's shooting in Texas. My heart dropped further when I thought about the growing macabre club of families in Las Vegas and Orlando and Charleston and Newtown, who have to relive their own day of horror every time another mass killing occurs.
None of this is inevitable. I know this because no other country endures this pace of mass carnage like America. It is uniquely and tragically American. As long as our nation chooses to flood the county with dangerous weapons and consciously let those weapons fall into the hands of dangerous people, these killings will not abate.
As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets. Ask yourself – how can you claim that you respect human life while choosing fealty to weapons-makers over support for measures favored by the vast majority of your constituents.
My heart breaks for Sutherland Springs. Just like it still does for Las Vegas. And Orlando. And Charleston. And Aurora. And Blacksburg. And Newtown. Just like it does every night for Chicago. And New Orleans. And Baltimore. And Bridgeport. The terrifying fact is that no one is safe so long as Congress chooses to do absolutely nothing in the face of this epidemic. The time is now for Congress to shed its cowardly cover and do something.
Enough with the “thoughts and prayers already.” The Bible teaches us that faith without works is dead. Do something or say nothing. https://t.co/ekYTtpQhDk— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 5, 2017
Remember when Jesus of Nazareth came upon thousands of hungry people, and rather than feeding them, thought and prayed? #WorksNotFaith https://t.co/eum3OkE0WF— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 5, 2017
I have some “thoughts and prayers,” @speakerRyan. I think that your cynical acquiescence to this rot in the service of greed is shameful.— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 5, 2017
Huffington Post Lead Headline, Monday Morning, 6 November 2017
The man in the White House says that the U.S. doesn't have a guns problem, but a mental health problem. Steve Benen responds:
As regular readers know, Trump has endorsed repealing the Affordable Care Act's essential health benefits, which includes mental-health treatments. The Republican president has also supported deep cuts to Medicaid, which provides mental health treatments to many low-income Americans.
Trump also signed into law a GOP bill that expanded gun access to the mentally impaired.
Let's be clear - nobody "stopped" this shooting. 26 people, including little kids, are dead in one of our country's worst mass killings. https://t.co/MP2ZxrUEoo— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 6, 2017
I’ll just keep saying it: The NRA is a terrorist organization.— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) November 5, 2017