“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.