text: With respect to your comment that "prayers are useless", I beg to differ.  First, if the rate of 1 mass shooting per day, on average (307 mass shootings through the 308 days of 2017 to date), and almost every year is not enough to at least restrict the most deadly of weapons, then perhaps it is the lack of prayer that is the problem. Consider that the people who should be praying (Christians) are, for some strange reason, against gun control, then who is actually praying for gun control???  Certainly not secular people.
  So, when the thing that appears to be common sense doesn’t happen, then one must question why that is.  Frankly, what more can be done from a secular viewpoint???  More mass demonstrations??? More shootings???  Obviously, neither of these has achieved any success at all.  Perhaps it is only prayer that can make a difference now as both sides are so deeply entrenched in their position that it would indeed take a miracle to get legislation through the government.