After mass shootings...“thoughts and prayers”

“Thoughts and prayers,” but the mass shootings continue ...

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00:00I don't apologize for thoughts or prayers.

00:02I'd like to take a moment

00:05to again send our thoughts and prayers.

00:08Thoughts and prayers have made a difference to them.

00:24For now, all we can do is to pray for peace and healing for their families.

00:30For now, all we can do is to pray for peace and healing for their families.

00:43I can only say tonight that the prayers of the American people are with you.

01:00Today, our nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech.

01:10We hold the victims in our hearts, we lift them up in our prayers,

01:16and we ask a loving God to comfort those who are suffering today.

01:30We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. We are praying for them.

01:36To the Newtown community and to all the Connecticut families,

01:39our thoughts and our prayers are with you.

01:44As I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that,

01:50and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough.

02:00It's not enough.

02:06It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel.

02:22Our thoughts and prayers today are with the victims and survivors in Las Vegas.

02:26I want to send our thoughts and prayers to the victims of the Las Vegas shooting.

02:30Took place exactly one year ago today.

02:34Inaction has made this horror completely predictable.

02:57Thoughts and prayers cannot save the eight victims in Atlanta or the ten last night.