Jen Psaki posted that prayer alone is insufficient to stop school shootings and criticized "thoughts and prayers" after the Minneapolis Annunciation Catholic School shooting. A reporter referenced Democrats and the Minneapolis mayor pushing gun control in the shooting's aftermath when asking Karoline Leavitt for the White House response. Leavitt called Psaki's remarks "incredibly insensitive and disrespectful" to millions of Americans of faith who believe in prayer's power. Leavitt urged prayer for the bereaved families and framed the comments as disrespectful during a time when children were killed while praying in a church.
Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers. When kids are getting shot in their pews at a catholic school mass and your crime plan is to have national guard put mulch down around DC maybe rethink your strategy,
Yes, I saw the comments of my predecessor, Ms. Psaki, and frankly I think they're incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works, and who believe that in a time of mourning like this, when beautiful young children were killed while praying in a church, it's utterly disrespectful to deride the power of prayer in this country,
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