““F*** your thoughts and prayers.””
Those were the blunt words of Michigan Democratic state Rep. Ranjeev Puri on Tuesday, a day after a gunman killed three and wounded five on the campus of Michigan State University. “Thoughts and prayers without action and change are meaningless,” Puri said in a statement, which quickly went viral.
“What happened in East Lansing is unfortunately far too common,” he wrote. “Going to school in America, whether it’s pre-school or college, means risking your life every day to the threat of a mass shooting. Yet all we have offered up are empty solutions — traumatizing active …