Ken Paxton is State Attorney General in Texas and as such is the state’s top law enforcement official.
On the day after the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, he said that “God always has a plan.” This is a variation on “thoughts and prayers.”
Paxton opposes gun control.
Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post wrote:
When thoughts and prayers seem inadequate in the wake of a tragedy, you can always blame God for what happened.
That would seem to be how Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sees it after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., took the lives of 19 children and two of their teachers. The carnage came just 10 days after a gunman with allegedly racist motives mowed down 10 shoppers and employees — all of them Black — in a Buffalo supermarket.
In a podcast interview recorded the day after the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School and unearthed last week by Salon, Paxton was asked by North Texas pastor Trey Graham what he might say to the victims’ families.
“I’d have to say, look, there’s always a plan. I believe God always has a plan,” the attorney general replied. “Life is short no matter what it is.”
It was all in God’s plan. That’s a suggestion we often hear from pious, well-meaning people when other words fail in the face of an unspeakable, inexplicable tragedy. The idea is that some day we will all understand that larger purpose of our suffering. It is meant to be a balm.
But those words sound more like a shrug when an elected leader — and in this case, one who is his state’s top law enforcement officer — offers that as an explanation for a horror that was preventable and exacerbated by human error. Worse, it is a dereliction of responsibility and of the imperative to do something to prevent something like this from happening again, as it has happened over and over.
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GOOD GRIEF…”God has a plan.”
What a stupid thing to say. Paxton is NUTS.
The Supreme Church Of The United States Declares All You Unwashed Savages Gonna Get Religion — THEIR RELIGION — Whether It’s Yours Or Not
Yes, their god has a plan.
That plan is to turn the US into an kleptocratic fascist anarchist’s bloody dream, as these MAGA zombies turn the United States into a dystopian nightmare for the other 70% of the population that doesn’t agree with anything they want.
Oh, by the way, their god is a beast, a fiend, an ogre, a monster is known as Beelzebub, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Satan; the Prince of Darkness.
Lloyd, can you believe that your old uN-friend Ragsnarblut continues to write almost daily to complain about vaccines, sometimes several times a day. He will never appear here again. If he reads this, I hope he stops.
Isn’t Ken Paxton supposed to be in jail? (Or, at least, on trial?)
I wonder if Mr. Paxton ever considered that God’s plan might be a wake up call to the holier than thou citizens of Texas to stop making it so easy for people to kill his children. That Texas should immediately enact a ban on assault weapons and put common sense gun regulations and require extensive background checks. I wonder if it ever crossed his little pea brain that God is NOT on the side of the gun lobby or the NRA!
What would Jesus do?
He surely wouldn’t agree with idolator Paxton.
Paxton and God are on speaking terms!? Hilarious. Assuming that Paxton believes the gibberish that he blabbers about, even his imagined God would cast him into a pit of vipers for all of Paxton’s lies, baloney throwing and non-stop duplicity.
Paxton is under criminal investigation for something or other. Maybe taking God’s name in vain.
Leave god out of this! If god really existedâ¦then why has he/she allowed this to happen? Vera Gottlieb Switzerland
Was the âright to lifeâ respected for all those who have perished in mass shootings??? Vera Gottlieb
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Which god should we be leaving out??
“Gods have a plan”
God has a plan
Or maybe ten
Cuz God’s a man
And also Zen
The Holy Trinity GodSquabble
“Leave me be!”
Said God the Son
Count on me!”
Said Father one
“If in doubt”
Said Holy Ghost
“Leave me out
Of human woes”
Empty, useless words that are nothing more than a cover for incompetence, along with the abdication of any responsibility for the horrors that took place that day. In Gun We Trust. Awful.
Thank God no one gave Ken the opportunity to speak directly to Uvalde victim families. Because not only would have pushed his Godly Long Range Planning but he also would have reminded the devastated to meditate on Life Expectancy.
“I believe God always has a plan. Life is short no matter what it is. And certainly, we’re not going to make sense of, you know, a young child being shot and killed way before their life expectancy.”
Ken Paxton TX AG
If Paxton had said that to the families, one of them might have shot him
Dead on the spot. “Life is short…”
In Paxton’s case, mostly just nasty and brutish …
No prob. There will be pie in the sky when you die.
I was sleeping, but something woke me up. It was Jesus. I walked through to the living room, and sure enough, he was up, sitting on our sofa in his boxers in the dark, smoking a Gauloise and laughing to himself. I said, “What’s so funny?”
He said, “I just sent Donald Trump a dream. He was a six-year-old from Honduras, and he had been walking for days and days through the desert with his mother, and he was thirsty and hungry and burned and bug-bitten, and his feet were throbbing, and she was crying, and he woke up screaming so loud you could hear it all the way to Melania’s room, though nothing surprises her anymore.”
“So how did you get the Gauloises?” I asked. “I thought they couldn’t sell those in the United States now.”
“I have connections,” he said.
“Why Gauloises?” I asked.
“My body is a temple,” he said.
God’s Plan (as reported by Ken Paxton)
God has a plan
A Rambo man
Who’s armed and tan
An AR fan
But don’t abort!
Cuz life is short
It’s all for sport
I must report
“Life is short no matter what it is.”
That’s supposed to be a comforting statement after a child is gunned down? That in comparison with, say, the history of humans, life is short, whether it’s 9 years long or 90? What are these people smoking?
If the massacre of 17 children and two adults in the Uvalde elementary school is part of God’s plan, God can count me out. I ain’t interested in his plan, his canal or Panama.
Darwin, in response to a question about what, on the basis of his studies, he thinks God likes: “He seems very interested in beetles.”
Reminds me of the Star Trek movie The Journey Home in which an alien space probe visits earth. Humans initially just assume the alien probe is here to communicate with them when what they probe actually came for was to communicate with humpback whales, who, unfortunately for the humans, the humans had forced into extinction.
We have always assumed we are the center of attention, for God, aliens and everyone else when the reality is that — based on sheer numbers of individuals and species — God is far more interested in insects than he is us humans.