O Really wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2019 11:24 pm
Have there been "thoughts and prayers" yet?
Saw some sarcastic ones online from anti-religion and anti-ammosexual posters.
Yup.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam: "deepest condolences and prayers"
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia: "praying"
Entertainer Pharrell Williams (who put on the popular Something In The Water [SITW] festival just a few weeks ago in the resort city): "praying"
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia: "prayers"
U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott: "thoughts"
Kirk Cox, Virginia House of Delegates Speaker: "deep and sincere prayer"
Pusha T, who performed at SITW: ""Sending my prayers and love to the city of Virginia Beach, condolences to all of the families who lost loved ones...I’m so sorry."
More at the link, I didn't know it was so many. To be fair, several also called for unspecified preventative action and/or praised the LEOs and medics.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in 2011:
We’re only 151 days into 2019 and there have already been 150 mass shootings. This reality is horrifying. It’s heartbreaking. And the fact that our nation’s leaders continue to fail to protect us should fuel outrage in every American. #VirginiaBeach
The stories of survivors from Virginia Beach touch on a familiar refrain: a workday shattered by gunfire. Coworkers huddled on the floor trying to stay quiet as the shooting gets closer. The disbelief that it’s finally happening to them. Our hearts are in Virginia tonight.
If gun violence feels like an everyday occurrence, that’s because it is. Every single day, nearly 100 lives are lost because of guns. This is not normal. No other developed nation in the world experiences this kind of daily heartbreak and horror. #VirginiaBeach
We are a country of citizens crying out for a response to this epidemic of gun violence, but there are politicians who take the gun lobby’s money and vote against our safety. Our leaders must work and vote to protect us. And if they don’t we must elect new leaders. #VirginiaBeach
It’s been nearly 100 days since the House passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act. How many more lives will be lost before Senator McConnell and President Trump take the next steps to sign that lifesaving legislation into law?
http://giffords.me/85044
One thing I did not see from the start is the usual 'no ID = Black' racist crowd of paranoid crybaby Whites. I checked
The Virginian-Pilot several times and though the perp is called a "longtime city ... current employee of the public utilities department," he is not yet named or otherwise described. Made me suspect that he's White and that was put out on social or other alternative media early on. We'll see. I don't care, just remarking on the suspicious absence of whiny White racists.