In the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, The New York Daily News took a strong stance Thursday against how certain politicians are reacting to the tragedy with a headline that reads “God Isn’t Fixing This.”
“As latest batch of innocent Americans are left lying in pools of blood, cowards who could truly end gun scourge continue to hide behind meaningless platitudes,” the cover reads.
The paper appears to be criticizing the response by certain politicians, mostly Republican, who responded to yet another shooting in the United States with calls for prayers rather than stricter gun control laws.
Police said Thursday that the two suspects in the San Bernardino mass shooting carried thousands of rounds of ammunition on them and “sprayed the room with bullets” at a holiday work party on Wednesday killing 14 and wounding another 21 people.
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GOP presidential hopefuls Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson and Lindsey Graham and House Speaker Paul Ryan all offered “thoughts and prayers” for the victims of San Bernardino shooting.
Rand Paul responded to the criticism from the The New York Daily News calling the cover page “deplorable.”
“The genuine thoughts and prayers offered to victims in need are not political fodder,” Paul said on his website. “This attack represents a fundamental problem with the media and politics in general.”
The Huffington Post also criticized the soft platitudes of “thoughts and prayers” calling them “useless” following another devastating shooting that is the 355th mass shooting this year, according to shootingtracker.com.
“Another Mass Shooting, Another Deluge Of Tweeted Prayers,” the headline reads with the subhead: “Seems to have been an ineffective strategy so far.”
Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, called for “action” to stop gun violence.
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D) of Connecticut, a state still dealing with the aftermath of the killings of 20 children in Newtown in 2012, was also outspoken in his criticism of politicians who offered prayers as a response to the violence as was fellow Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
In an interview with CBS, President Obama reiterated the need for stronger gun control legislation, a statement he has made several times before.
“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world,” Obama told CBS News. “We should never think this is something that just happens in the ordinary course of events because it doesn’t happen with the same frequency in other countries.”
“There’s some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of the mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently.”
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