Gov. Cox "we are not like that" "praying it wouldnt be one of us" "we don't do that here"

[IcyPeas]

So tone deaf. The comments in this thread started by Shannon Watts (founder of Moms Demand Action - gun violence activist) are spot on. AND: sorry it's a twitter thread. But that is where the magats and ignoramuses will more likely see it. I understand the people who don't want to go there so to each their own. Really... read all the comments.

The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, just said, "For the last 33 hours, I had been praying that this person (who murdered Charlie Kirk) was from another country. That he was not one of us because we are not like that. But it was one of us."

Link to tweet

[marble falls]

1. Patel looks mesmerized by the chrome dome.

[Ocelot II]

3. Patel always has that look - like electrodes have been attached to his testicles.

[marble falls]

10. And he seems to be enjoying it.

[Sneederbunk]

2. You run a red state and the shooter was a Mormon. Get over it.

[Blues Heron]

4. A massacre a day and we don't do that. Right. Pukes just exude the slimiest possible vibe at all times.

[Ocelot II]

5. "We are not like that."

Yeah, you are like that.

[eShirl]

6. Well it turns out that yes you are like that.

[lapfog_1]

7. everyone need to get the quote RIGHT

"For 33 hours I was...I was praying that.. that um.. if it had to happen here it wouldn't be one of us. That somebody DROVE FROM AN OTHER STATE, somebody came from another country... sadly that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for.

[LeftInTX]

9. OK, he did mention STATE.

That's what I was thinking at first. "We're a state full of Donny Osmond Mormons, it doesn't happen here"

[lapfog_1]

14. as in... I really hoped the guy drove here to shoot Charlie

from the left coast... Washington, Oregon, California... you know, where all those violent antifas are located.

[LeftInTX]

8. I can't believe he said that....

I could see if he was shocked that he was a local as in, "it can't happen here"...but foreigner? really? Maybe he was hoping he was from another state or wasn't a Mormon, but foreigner?????? It doesn't compute or make sense.....seriously.....

[Klarkashton]

11. However it was a Mormon just like him.

[Norrrm]

12. God answered his prayer ------ with the truth.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. I doubt he would be complaining if the killer was

an obvious left wing extremist, or a member of a religious, ethnic, or gender minority.

He's upset that it was a "nice" white boy from a "good" religious, RW family, and so doesn't provide the easy scapegoat that he would want.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. It's a bizarre and non-Christian (and I'd include Mormon in that) thing to pray for. Bizarre to admit it in public, too

I mean, I can understand someone thinking "I hope that it wasn't someone like me" - which would be a guilty thought, thinking "I'm better than that, and the people who look like me, or grew up in the same places as me, are better than that" - a bit of prejudice, that many of us might be prone to at some time. But to turn that thought into a "prayer" - how can anyone Christian "pray" about a past event? - seems profoundly un-Christian. It trivialises the idea of prayer - either if you think prayer is literally talking to God, or if you think it is just a way of vocalising your hopes and fears, and with luck aligning them with your religious ideals.

And then to think this is something that, as a public figure, you should say to the world. Was he saying this as a form of public confession of his personal shortcomings?