Report: Thoughts & Prayers Yield Mixed Results
Legislation could be last resort.
Over the last few decades, the United States of America has sought to combat the rise of mass shootings with the power of a well intentioned thought and a nondenominational prayer.
However, a new report is claiming that those thoughts and prayers may not be as impactful as once believed.
According to a the report, decades of data suggest that when it comes to defending against mass shootings, not only are thoughts and prayers not as impactful as desired, they often produce a wide range of results.
The report states:
“Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t.”
In one recent case study, although thoughts and prayers fell short of preventing a mass shooting, they did protect the CEO population as zero CEOs were killed in said mass shooting.
So, in that case, the mixed results were apparent.
In another case study, the thoughts and prayers completely misfired and, instead of preventing a mass shooting, promoted an individual from Supervisor to Manager at Cracker Barrel Corporate.
Mixed results.
But if thoughts and prayers aren’t yielding the desired results, what else can be done?
Experts and elected officials fear they may have to resort to legislation - an option that wouldn’t even guarantee the total elimination of mass shootings, begging the question: would that be worth it?
We’ll just have to wait and see.