Michigan state representative Ranjeev Puri doesn’t want your condolences — he wants real change.After a gunman killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University on Monday night, Puri, a Democratic legislator, released a statement beginning with one powerful, strongly worded sentence: “F— your thoughts and prayers.” Read more: Three people killed after shootings at Michigan State University, police say Read next: Part of the Sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists Puri said the shooting has caused “unimaginable trauma and grief” to the Michigan State University community.Today, we begin to collectively heal from the horrific events which transpired, tomorrow we work.
My official statement regarding the Michigan State University shooting is below:Fuck your thoughts and prayers. pic.twitter.com/iHCOxOmDA3— Rep.
Ranjeev Puri (@RanjeevPuri) February 14, 2023“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,” the statement reads. “Yet we have offered up empty solutions — traumatizing active shooter drills and bulletproof backpacks.”According to Puri, the Michigan State University attack is the 67th mass shooting in the U.S.
in 2023 alone. He said there have been more than 2,215 mass shooting gun deaths in just the first two months of this year.“Thoughts and prayers without action and change are meaningless,” Puri wrote.He pledged to work tirelessly toward “common sense gun reform” in the U.S.The governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, called mass shootings “a uniquely American problem.”Tonight, Spartans will cry and hold each other a little closer.