Politicians: Enough Already with the “Thoughts and Prayers” Cliche. Do Something About Gun Violence!

Last night’s horrific tragedy in a Colorado movie theater involved the brutal murder of more than a dozen human beings, including a few children whose lives were obscenely ended in a needless fit of violence.

I ask our political leaders to take a break from the their self-serving tweeting and sound-biting of what’s now emerged as our language’s most overused cliche — “our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims” — and instead offer some meaningful attention to the horrific crisis of gun violence in our nation, whatever your particular ideological view on the issue.

This should not be used and yet another opportunity to demonstrate your empathy for voters.  Guess what — the families are already in our thoughts and prayers.  The way to truly honor the victims of this tragedy is to use the authority the voters have already given you to take meaningful action to decrease the likelihood that this will ever happen again.