NY paper gets the headline right

They're all paid off by the NRA not to do anything.

Holy hell. You have got to be kidding me. Yet...I know you're not.

It says money in 2016? Is it an error or money they will receive in 2016? I have no doubt the NRA puts money in their pockets, I'm questioning the year.

I don't know, I assume that's money received for the 2016 election cycle. However, I was referring to the tweets further down in his feed where he retweeted every legislator who tweeted "thoughts and prayers" with a reference to the amount of money they received from the NRA in their last election.

Delusional? Heartless is more like it! What a slap in the face to those who lost loved ones in either tragedy. Even my paranoid-everything's-a-conspiracy father in law hasn't dared to voice that one, yet. At least not to me but I, like you, have seen it on the internet more than once.

I think the bashing and mocking of politicians for offering their thoughts and prayers with the victims is misguided at best. But here's the latest for you all to tear into:

"Our first order of business is to send our thoughts and prayers."

Can't wait for you and the blogsphere to mock President Obama.

I was going to say something, but some people aren't responding to.

Wow just wow, makes me wonder how these people can function on a daily basis.

There is a difference between mocking some politicians and not others when they offer "thoughts and prayers" in a situation like this.   

The politicians on the front page in question are just giving lip service because if they were serious they would back up their "heartfelt prayers" with action.  Which they choose not to do hoping the American People are stupid enough to believe their prayers are enough to prevent these mass shootings.

I'm sure the 14 victims of yesterday would have much rather preferred action instead "heartfelt prayers" after Sandy Hook.  If there had been action instead of just prayers maybe just maybe these folks and the thousands of other gun victims would be alive today.  

But until the politicians on the front page of the paper in question and other GOP politicians take their collective heads out of the NRA's ass nothing meaningful will ever get done.

To answer rainbow's question about what can be done.  Simple we know what needs to be done to keep the guns out of the wrong people's hands but we, as a country, choose to do nothing.  Except to offer our prayers and thoughts.  Sorry folks the only time "prayers and thoughts" mean anything is if there is no solution to the problem or situation.  But that is certainly not the case when it comes to guns in this country.

Freaking idiots. 

Just because someone disagrees with the type of change that will help prevent these incidents, doesn't mean they don't care.  I don't see how mocking compassion is helpful on any level.  

IMHO, after so many mass shootings without calls for something to change, the "prayers & thoughts" comes across as empty lip service rather than compassion. 

In many cases, I don't even perceive it as lip service anymore, I see it as shameless pandering to their own base because I'm sure the victims yesterday really cared that my backwater Congressman in western PA tweeted them thoughts and prayers. How many of them follow his twitter feed?

Well I think it's interesting that we'll see the exact opposite responses when the discussion begins about the shooter being radicalized (which CNN is currently reporting).  We'll see the seismic shift of the right shouting about what needs to be done and accusing the left of being of the "so sad, too bad, nothing we can do"