During shootings, and immediately after, many take to social media to offer prayers to those killed, injured, and affected. However, some are now mocking those who offer prayers.
Soon after Wednesday’s San Bernadino shooting, Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos and co-founder Vox Media, tweeted:
At least 14 dead and 14 injured. But lucky for them, the GOP is offering up loads of thoughts and prayers!
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) December 2, 2015
How many dead people did those thoughts and prayers bring back to the life? https://t.co/FX5yWryt1o
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) December 2, 2015
Additionally, the Huffington Post published a piece titled, “Another Mass Shooting, Another Deluge Of Tweeted Prayers.” Here’s an excerpt:
Public officials are the people society trusts to solve society’s ills. Like, say, gun violence. But every time multiple people have been gunned down in a mass shooting, all these officials can seemingly do is rush to offer their useless thoughts and prayers. And so they did after news broke about multiple casualties in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday. … It’s not just politicians, though — many people with Twitter accounts offered thoughts and prayers, too. Here’s what a Twitter column searching for the terms “thoughts” and “prayers” looked like on Wednesday afternoon. (A lot of the tweets are from people saying that tweeting thoughts and prayers is useless.)
