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Nashville shooting: Senate chaplain says ‘thoughts and prayers’ not enough

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Barry C Black said: ‘When babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers’
The chaplain who leads prayers in the US Senate said on Tuesday: “When babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers.”
Barry C Black was referring to the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, in which three nine-year-olds and three adults were killed. The shooter was killed by police.
Since the shooting, Democrats from Joe Biden down have urged meaningful gun control reform, including an assault weapons ban.
Many Republicans, opposed to gun regulation, have offered thoughts and prayers instead.
The House majority leader, Steve Scalise, who survived a shooting at congressional baseball practice in 2017, was among those to offer prayers.
He also told reporters: “I really get angry when I see people trying to politicise it for their own personal agenda, especially when we don’t even know the facts.

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