God Isn’t Fixing This

“As the latest batch of innocent Americans are left lying in a pool of blood, cowards who could truly end gun scourge continued to hide behind meaningless platitudes”, the front-page headline continued.

“God isn’t fixing this”, reads the front page of December 3’s newspaper.

One Twitter user by the name of Mollie tweeted directly at the publication, saying: “I don’t think you realise how offensive that cover is” – and received 600 “likes”.

The Huffington Post was among those pushing against the importance of thoughts and prayers – calling them “useless”.

“The Daily News for their own liberal, you know, pursuits of trying to eliminate the Second Amendment, want to put that kind of cover on and degrade the power of prayer?”

By another metric, too, the front page is reaching its intended audience: Fox News is republishing it.

The New York Daily News’ front page took aim at Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and Lindsey Graham.

The Daily News’ dismissal of Republican politicians’ calls for prayers in the wake of the mass shooting echoes a sentiment that emerged on Twitter after the incident Wednesday afternoon.

Key to understanding the cover: authorities have said that Syed Farook, one of the shooters in this week’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, was likely motivated by religious extremism and had been monitored for his ties to terrorist groups based in TK COUNTRY?.

The politicians were often Republicans and generally more conservative figures who have been pushing against gun control legislation in the U.S. Congress. Many accused them of hypocrisy, saying that prayers alone could not solve the problem of gun violence in the United States. “That’s why we published the images”, the Daily News wrote in a note to readers in August.