Reactions to the church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas have broadly consisted of sympathy and calls for prayer for the victims and their families, but some prominent left-wing voices have taken the opportunity to politicize the incident. Some on the left have used the shooting to mock the concept of prayer and Christianity.
Officials say that a gunman dressed in “full gear” and walked into First Baptist Church outside San Antonio, Texas, murdering scores and wounding more than a dozen churchgoers on Sunday morning.
Following the shooting, a number of prominent media personalities, celebrities and liberal pundits took the effort to mock the concept of prayer and called for gun control.
MSNBC national correspondent Joy Reid penned a lengthy series of tweets condemning the NRA, stating that the organization was “soaked and bathed in blood.” She followed it up with tweets about how America was seeing a resurgence of neo-Nazism.
The @NRA is soaked and bathed in blood. How do its adherents sleep at night?
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 5, 2017
We are facing nascent fascism, the threat of autocracy and authoritarianism, resurgent neo-Nazism, mass shootings and political violence…
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 5, 2017
In the moments following the breaking news, Comedian Chelsea Handler, who just had her show canceled by Netflix, blamed Republicans for the mass shooting.
“Innocent people go to church on Sunday to honor their God, and while doing so, get shot and killed. What country? America. Why? Republicans,” she wrote.
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