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Reaction To The Orlando Shooting

Praying without action is useless

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Reaction To The Orlando Shooting
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We're all saddened by the recent events in Orlando both the shooting at the Pulse nightclub, and the shooting of Christina Grimmie at a meet-and-greet outside of the venue she was performing at.

Nothing was said after the Christina Grimmie incident mainly because people didn't have enough time to really react to what had happened since the very next night there was the mass shooting of the Pulse nightclub. After the nightclub incident many of our politicians took to Twitter tweeting things like #PrayforOrlando. While this is not a bad thing in and of itself, why are you saying this if you're not going to do anything about it?

Prayer can be a good thing. It can give you clarity, knowledge, peace of mind and it can be used to help make people who are suffering emotionally. It gives them an opportunity and a chance to begin to heal. But prayer in regards to a tragedy like this is fine, as long as you have an idea of what you can do to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again.

Now praying and sitting back and expecting that God is going to fix everything at this day in age is delusional. That's just not how the world works anymore, maybe it did back in the day of Abraham, and in the teachings of Jesus and the formation of the Church. I don't know, I wasn't actually there, so because of that I can't tell you. What I can tell you is that in today's society all of the world changing acts that happen are caused by normal people like you and me. Whether you believe that it's because of their moral compass or because you feel that they were commissioned by God to go out and change the world those acts are done by your average person.

Now what these actions are is dependent on the situation that caused them to be necessary. In regards to the incidents in Orlando a lot of people have taken to social media to call for some form of stricter gun control because nobody should be able to commit a massacre of any kind. The issue here is that on both sides of the political spectrum nobody seems to want to compromise to try and find a solution to this issue of mass shootings and gun violence.

When you go and pray about these situations at the end of it all you really need to have some sense of a plan of action that you are capable of doing. That can be as simple as going onto Facebook, Twitter and any other social networking sites and sharing posts about this issue, or it can be as complex as planning a rally around a certain topic. Whatever it is, after prayer you should have a form of action that you plan to take. The absolute worst thing that you can do is to sit back and do absolutely nothing because that is utterly useless.

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