Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

[Basilissa]

*** Breaking news ***

In addition to being a day named after a saint who most probably did not exist in the first place, from today on "Valentine's Day" will be also known as the day when a shooter entered a school killing 17 and injuring scores more of children.

PARKLAND, Fla. -- What started out as an ordinary day at a south Florida high school has ended in gunfire and death. It happened about 20 miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School which is attended by about 3,000 students. At least 17 people were killed. A 19-year-old suspected gunman has been identified as Nikolas Cruz, a former student.
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With so many record-beating shootings recently, there is only one thing that needs right now: prayers. That's right, prayers. We do not need gun control laws, we do not need tighter background checks, we do not need restrict crazy people from obtaining guns, we do not even need to talk about mental health issues and the utter lack of mental health care in this country. After all, sure, people shoot guns, but God carries the bullets!

Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Isaiah 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

Therefore, we simply need to pray to God to restrain His Anger and stop sending shooters!

Here is a look at the some of the worst mass shootings this country has seen. [The most recent ones, which happened within the last 6 years, are highlighted in red]

Las Vegas, Nevada - Route 91 Festival - 58 dead
October 1, 2017: A shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others. The gunman, Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire on thousands of people gathered at an outdoor music festival from a hotel room window on the Las Vegas strip.
Paddock was found dead when police entered the hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino across Las Vegas Boulevard from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
"We believe it's a solo actor. A lone wolf," Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said.

Orlando, Florida - Pulse nightclub - 49 dead
June 12, 2016: A gunman armed with an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando in a rampage and hostage standoff that lasted three hours before he was killed in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. The gunman was identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen. Mateen pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) during the attack. His wife, Noor Salman, is facing charges of aiding and abetting and obstruction in federal court; she has pleaded not guilty to helping her husband.

Blacksburg, Virginia - Virginia Tech - 32 dead
April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, killed 32 people in two shooting scenes at a dorm and then in a classroom building on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. He then killed himself.

Newtown, Connecticut - Sandy Hook Elementary School - 27 dead
Dec. 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, 20, opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children and six staff members before killing himself. His mother, Nancy Lanza, was also found shot to death at their home.

Sutherland Springs, Texas - First Baptist Church - 26 dead
Nov. 5, 2017: Police say Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire with a military-style rifle, killing 26 and wounding at least 20 at a Sunday church service, in the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. Authorities say Kelley apparently shot and killed himself in his car after a chase.

Killeen, Texas - Luby's Cafeteria - 23 dead
Oct. 16, 1991: Twenty-three people were killed and 20 more wounded when George Hennard opened fire at Luby's Cafeteria. He then killed himself.

San Ysidro, California - McDonald's - 21 dead
July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, killed 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California. A police sharpshooter killed Huberty.

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The list goes on including several other shootings with lesser numbers of victims.

We are the country with the most mass shootings in the world (about 1/3 of all shootings worldwide), and if you look at the dates, both the frequency and severity of the shootings keep increasing. Hence, there is clearly something that bothers about America (Isaiah 26:21, Ezekiel 25:17, Romans 1:18). (My bet would be on the liberals).

Pray to God and repent for your sins, America!

[James Hutchins]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

Just like Our Perfect President(c) has told us, all these wetback messicans are murders and rapists. That is what the dream about, murdering and raping Godly Christian Americans.
They all need to be rounded up and kept in some sort of protected facility then sold back to messico to pay for the wall.

It is not a question of if these lower forms of life will kill and rape, but when. We need to stop the madness and be proactive!

[Abigail Snyder]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

This all could have been avoided if children were homeschooled! i pray that the survivors of this turn to Jesus and start learning more about guns, so the next Messican who comes to attack them gets filled with lead before he has a chance.

[Brother Gonzalez]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

Liberals are talking of banning guns instead of banning mexicans! Why? Guns do not shoot themselves. Mexicans shoot guns. The logic is flawless: build that wall and no other massacre like this will happen.

I am washed in the blood of the Lord, but before that, I had a dream. I was a dreamer, and my dream was to destroy every single white person on the US out of jealousy.


Be aware, 'merricans. Muslims and spics are you worst enemies. Wake up!

[John Creeser]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

I can’t believe I’m going to say this but for once the libtards are right! Thoughts and prayers are not going to cease mass school shootings. What will? Every child should be packing an AR 15. It should be as common as packing a lunch or last nights homework.

Think about it. A couple hundred armed jr high students with two high capacity mags each, some training on YouTube = problem solved.

“But dad, how will I know who the shooter is?”

“Easy son, just shoot at the student who is shooting other students.”

The logic is sound and I won’t let dead children (especially those who are not Christin) trample on my second amendment rights!!

Luke 22:36

[DolliMoans]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

Let's not get too hasty in saying all mass shootings are the same. Some of those shooters happen to be white men who should not be judged necessarily, for there are usually underlying causes to what makes them snap. Often they are misunderstood and lonely, with scrambled messages going through their minds from Our Lord that where He might be communicating like broken telephone to put down sinners. Most of them however, they are just in the wrong place at the wrong time and their gun accidentally goes off. These instances are purely coincidental and are tragic on all fronts.

This school shooter however was a deranged mexican! It's a verable fact all latin folk are volatile, sweaty creatures with spicy tempers and insanity running through their veins that make them cupable of all kinds of heinous acts!

Let's face it, people getting shots are fact of life, they're just going to happen! You don't know when and where, but we can greatly prevent them from happening once President Trump departs all mexicans and other deplorables from our beautiful country!

[Basilissa]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

Just like Our Perfect President© has told us, all these wetback messicans are murders and rapists.

Liberals are talking of banning guns instead of banning mexicans! Why? Guns do not shoot themselves. Mexicans shoot guns. The logic is flawless: build that wall and no other massacre like this will happen.

It's a verable fact all latin folk are volatile, sweaty creatures with spicy tempers and insanity running through their veins that make them cupable of all kinds of heinous acts!

Dearest Brothers (and Sister Dolli), you raise a very important point here. America will never be safe until we ban all Muslims and Mexicans from ever entering this country.

President Trump () famously called for ban of all Muslims after the San Bernardino shooting in 2015. It is the only reasonable answer to this tragedy, to ban all Mexicans as well.

Every child should be packing an AR 15. It should be as common as packing a lunch or last nights homework.

Think about it. A couple hundred armed jr high students with two high capacity mags each, some training on YouTube = problem solved.

“But dad, how will I know who the shooter is?”

“Easy son, just shoot at the student who is shooting other students.”

This is a brilliant solution indeed, Brother!

This all could have been avoided if children were homeschooled!

That is another very important point as well.

I would also like to call everybody's attention to President Trump's () response to this tragedy. Every other president would be drooling all over about it, immediately begging for attention with lengthy speeches that nobody wants to listen to anyway. Not President Trump - no, he's above all that. Yesterday, he simply tweeted his condolences:

President Trump limited his immediate public response to the third-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history to a pair of messages posted to Twitter on Wednesday.“My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting,” Trump first tweeted. “No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school.”
Moments later, the president sent out a second message to his 47.8 million followers. “Just spoke to Governor Rick Scott. We are working closely with law enforcement on the terrible Florida school shooting,” the president wrote.
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Thank You, for finally giving us a Leader who knows how to properly deal with a tragedy - in 280 characters or less!

He did give a brief speech today, but devoid of exaggerated emotions and touchy "feelings."

Late Thursday morning, Trump spoke about the tragedy in a brief televised address from the White House, saying that “no child, no teacher, should be in danger in an American school.” He said he would visit Parkland, Fla., where 17 people, most of them students, were killed and more than a dozen injured, to meet with families and local officials, and would work with governors “to tackle the difficult issue of mental health.”“Let us pray for healing and peace and let us come together as one nation to wipe away the tears and strive for a much better tomorrow,” Trump said.
He did not mention guns in his remarks. The shooter used an AR-15 assault-style rifle and had multiple magazines, according to law enforcement officials.

[Basilissa]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

As the shooting survivors thank God that He spared them while He decided to smite 17 others, there are others who ask, could this shooting have been prevented?

We will not be hearing about a shooting in Everett, Washington, because today a concerned grandmother turned in to authorities her own grandson - just because he was stockpiling weapons and explosives and writing a journal about a planned school shooting.

Nikolas Cruz lived with his friend's family and his younger brother in a mobile home - yet nobody in that mobile home contacted the authorities (I assume it must have been a very spacious mobile home). The FBI was contacted after he posted a comment on youtube on planning to become the next school shooter. Cruz often bragged about guns, shooting random animals, and bringing guns to school. His social media accounts were filled with disturbing statements and images.

So, could this tragedy have been prevented? The obvious and correct answer is no. God wanted 17 people dead yesterday, and He appointed Nikolas Cruz to do His dirty job.

In his own way, Cruz (a nice white boy adopted by a Messican family) did his small part to make America great again - especially when you think that some of the victims were definitely less than white.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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God is good all the time!

All the time, God is Good!

When we are confused or confounded, it is because we cannot see His Way, which is the Best Way because it's His and He knows Best. Sometimes my mere human mind simply can't quite imagine how this massacre will work for my benefit, but Jesus promises me it will and so I will hold onto that promise (Romans 8:28 ).

[handmaiden]

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When I saw the picture of some of the students crying after the incident, I thought, This is terrible!
Did anyone see the fake nails and eyeliner on the one female student?!

[keseos]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

honestly, you people are what causes this problem, you may deny this fact but that young boy for all you know and realise has had a hard life because of people like you. I am simply ashamed to be of the same species as you who blindly follow those of highly questionable behaviour such as your president. god has no plan if god did we would not have free will and as such the only people responsible is the american people such as christian extremists such as your selves. telling/corrupting younger male generations that no matter what they do they are righteous that they are true and that women are nothing more than dolls for men to do with which is fundamentally wrong and sickening. there is only one county where there is school shooting and public shootings and that is america. there is noting great about your society never has been never will, you murdered and raped you're way into america you talk about getting rid of immigrates but you forgot that every white every christian person is a immigrate is the one thing you all collectively hate. if god is watching then he has surly lost hope for you all. you are no better than ISIS and the Taliban

[Mary Etheldreda]

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honestly, you people are what causes this problem,

You're confused, dear. We know the real problem is a lack of Christ in the hearts and souls of the progressives who want to apply "rational thinking" and "logical solutions" to problems, despite those not being Biblical answers at all. Why, I defy you to show an event in which the Lord thy God opted for logical solutions.

telling/corrupting younger male generations that no matter what they do they are righteous

Again, you're mistaken. A man isn't righteous "no matter what they do," dear. A man is righteous for obedience unto the LORD, no questions asked, no conditions, no reservations.

there is noting great about your society never has been never will, you murdered and raped you're way into america you talk about getting rid of immigrates but you forgot that every white every christian person is a immigrate is the one thing you all collectively hate.

Not quite, dear. America was founded upon the principles of "Tough Love." If you don't Love the LORD, life is Tough.

you are no better than ISIS and the Taliban

We're much better. We have Jesus on our side, and we have better music.

[DolliMoans]

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I am simply ashamed to be of the same species as you who blindly follow those of highly questionable behaviour such as your president. god has no plan if god did we would not have free will and as such the only people responsible is the american people such as christian extremists such as your selves. telling/corrupting younger male generations that no matter what they do they are righteous that they are true and that women are nothing more than dolls for men to do with which is fundamentally wrong and sickening. there is only one county where there is school shooting and public shootings and that is america. there is noting great about your society never has been never will, you murdered and raped you're way into america you talk about getting rid of immigrates but you forgot that every white every christian person is a immigrate is the one thing you all collectively hate. if god is watching then he has surly lost hope for you all. you are no better than ISIS and the Taliban

I know! It's like you see white Christians going around shooting schools and blowing up stuff all the time, right!? Not!


If you're ashamed to be a human being, lovingly crafted by Our Lord Almighty, then you might as well spit in His sweet face, and call Him a bad designer, which is definitely not true! God made me imperfect, yet perfect, designed in his image. I thank the Lord every day for how blessed I am to have been born an almost sentient human, save for that I am a woman; which gets me to the bit you just said about women being dolls for men to do as they want, to which I say, Well Duh!! Obviously! My name *is* Dolli after all. I couldn't think of anything that makes me happier than pleasing my husband and JESUS!

I'm just grateful I DON'T live in a country where I'd be forced to be bundled up head to toe to conceal my natural beauty, living under the oppressive thumb of swarthy towelheads who just might stone me, cut off my uterus, throw me off a balcony and burn my remains in the street in honor for their Allah!


Oh gee, I guess you forget places like that actually exist? Gee! Maybe America isn't so bad when you see the bigger picture!

[Elmer G. White]

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Dear Chaste and Immaculate Sister in Christ,

I read the reference you cited and became appalled and extremely concerned!

We are the country with the most mass shootings in the world (about 1/3 of all shootings worldwide)...

The U.S. ranks first in gun ownership in the world, with surveys suggesting the rate to be 88.8 firearms for every 100 people in America

Only 88.8 firearms/100 persons! Gun ownership is down to less than 88.8% as many True Christian™ households own more than a dozen guns. This means that there are still infants, toddlers, perhaps even grown men in America that refuse a wield a gun! This calls for disaster and - as we have seen - these disasters occur more and more frequently.

Luke 22:36
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Jesus commands everyone to wield a weapon. Disobeying Him (Ecclesiastes 12:13) will only cause mayhem and a one-way ticket into Hell. I shall pray not only for the victims of this incident but also for all the future events this year and the next until Jesus returns. Soon (Revelation 22:20). With the gun ownership numbers so low anything can and will happen unless our prayers reach the hearts of the sodomite pacifists.


Yours in Christ,

Elmer

[keseos]

Re: Valentine Day's mass shooting in Florida: we need prayers, not gun control

I know! It's like you see white Christians going around shooting schools and blowing up stuff all the time, right!? Not!

right because its not like it happens in the middle east caused by your christian military killing and injuring hundreds of innocent people or anything. and yes there are in fact Christians who blow building up and shoot schools all in the name of god.