Inevitable ‘thoughts and prayers’ fight follows Minneapolis shooting | NYGazet

"Thoughts and prayers." The phrase appears after every mass shooting. So does the backlash. It happened again after an assailant shot and killed two Catholic school students and wounded 18 other people Wednesday in Minneapolis.

Thoughts and prayers. The invocation appears like a litany after every mass shooting — and the backlash is just as inevitable. As if the slaughter of children amid screams and shattered stained glass wasn’t cause enough for grief, American opinion ma... [7725 chars]