Do you think the Devil prays? What do you think he prays for, more pain, chaos, weeping families, dead children in the halls of schools? Do you think he dances gleefully through the fire of hate and passionless ‘thoughts and fervent prayers’ after every mass shooting, knowing that he is winning the battle of ‘hearts and minds.’
Nineteen babies lay dead in their elementary school, and two of their teachers died with them. This may not be the final count of this latest tragedy. Twenty-one human lives lost forever, and even more victims when you begin adding all the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders who witnessed the violence in what should be a safe and happy place, their school. Then you begin to add all the parents, siblings, grandparents of those nineteen babies, all the aunties, uncles, cousins, and the circle of victims grows. Nineteen babies who will never grow up, never finish High School, go to Prom, attend college, fall in love, get married, or have children of their own. Nineteen babies, children under the age of ten (10), lay broken and bleeding, dead before they had the chance to live.
Uvalde Victims Identified
In the course of killing babies, this sick and twisted killer also took the lives of two teachers, women who dedicated their lives to the young of this small Texas town. Both were gunned down while trying to protect their students. Both with families and children of their own, they leave broken hearts and shattered lives behind them.
How do any of us reconcile the horror of mass shootings with the indifference of the Pro-Life response?
“Inevitably when there’s a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it; you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. That doesn’t work. It’s not effective. It doesn’t prevent crime.” Ted Cruz, to reporters Tuesday 5/24/2022
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“I’d much rather have law-abiding citizens armed and trained so that they can respond when something like this happens because it’s not going to be the last time.” Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General on Newsmax, Tuesday 5/24/2022
Consider what we have done in Texas since Abbott became Governor; we have the loosest Gun Controls in the world. In fact, Abbott has signed twenty-two (22) pieces of legislation that make gun ownership and gun carry laws looser. In Texas, anyone above the age of 21 can carry a handgun nearly anywhere in the state without training or a permit. In Texas, any person above the age of 18 can buy any type of gun, handgun, long-gun, semi-automatic gun. Then there is my favorite, the Sanctuary Act which FORBIDS local agencies from enforcing Federal gun rules; this act goes even further and bans government agencies at all levels from doing business with or signing contracts with any organization that discriminates against the firearm industry.
Babies, we are talking about dead children who are still being identified a day later because of the horrible damage done to their small bodies by one person with a gun. But these PRO-LIFE lunatics would have you believe that guns don’t kill people. These same lunatics, here in Texas and beyond, will be at the NRA Conference in Houston just two days from now. Who will be there? Good question, Raphael (Ted) Cruz (Senator, R, Texas), Greg Abbott (Governor, R, Texas), Donald Trump (2X impeached ex-President, R). There are others they aren’t worth mentioning; what is important is these men have one thing in common: they pretend to care about children, yet consistently prove they have zero compassion or empathy for the lives lost. They vote consistently for death; even their stance on Abortion is a vote for death.
I am broken-hearted by the failure of this nation to stand up for our most vulnerable. We watch, we wring our hands, and then we turn away. We wait for the next tragedy; we fail to hold accountable those with the power to make meaningful changes. We fail to stand up to the ignorance of those who make the most horrific public statements and tell the most baseless lies (e.g., School Shootings are Left Wing False Flag Events because they are losing). We fail to demand truth from the fourth estate (media) rather than the propaganda circus we have today. We lost the race before we even took the first step.
Does the Devil pray? Or does he dance gleefully through the bloodbaths we create with our indifference to the dead? Donald Trump gave an inauguration speech on Jan. 20, 2017, that, at the time, insulted many of us; I now believe it was simple precognition:
“Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories, scattered like tombstones across the across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
In his four years in office, he enshrined Trumpism within the GOP. He uplifted the worst in us. He stomped empathy and compassion into the ground and what we are left with is nineteen dead children in Uvalde, Texas. Heartbroken families and a nation that hasn’t recovered from Buffalo, grieving again and asking, ‘Why?”
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I don’t think the devil prays. I mean, who would be listening to that anyhow? All he has to do is just sit and watch while greed does his job for him.
Hmmm, yet he was at one time the most favored of the Angels. Just saying.
I don’t know. None of it really makes sense.
IMHO – Greed. When there seems to be an “unsolvable” problem, look to who profits from it NOT being solved. Gerrymandering keeps greedy folks in power, and “special interest groups” have lobbyists padding election coffers, so legislation supported by a majority of Americans never sees the debate floor in the Senate. And the $$ keeps flowing in. Along with the useless “thoughts and prayers.” Disgustingly, this is not even unique to just the gun issue. And I agree with you, if some of these folks were as “Pro-Life” as they say, there wouldn’t be 169 dead in school shootings since Columbine. It’s soul sickening and gut wrenching.
Even with gerrymandering and lobby money, citizens can stop this. It wouldn’t be easy but it can be done. It has been done in the past. It is just a matter of will and standing together.
Here in TN, our governor is trying to keep up with Mr. Abbot. The next step for both states seems so obvious, and I’m sure both our governors will soon realize it. School children need to be able to carry their own guns for “protection”. Surely no harm can come from that.
In the meantime, we have the news outlets’ ageless remedy — THOUGHTS and PRAYERS. Your governor finds the shootings incomprehensible. He’s already forgotten the gun laws he passed that made it all possible. And besides, I’m sure that many of the shooters are “very fine people”, even if they aren’t Nazis.
I’m so glad that both our governors are so hell bent on preserving life, until birth, then they’re on their own.
Of course the devil preys — on the people who elect our great political leaders.
Thanks for your post.
As a gun violence survivor I am particularly stunned when ‘thoughts and fervent prayers’ are sent for the victims. It makes me want to scream in between my tears. There is not shame in these mega-maniacs. Thank you for you comments. I hope someone, somewhere finally stands up and says no.