I don’t care if politicians pray - they have that religious freedom. But let’s look at gun legislation… first the republicans say that existing laws should be enforced rather than enacting new laws. I’d agree with them, except that they are simultaneously gutting the agencies responsible for enforcing those laws. Instead, Paul Ryan says we should pray because “prayer works”. Well, he might believe that, but there is absolutely no evidence that prayer works. In fact, every single scientific study ever done has concluded that prayer does nothing. So when the politicians do things that demonstrably make the laws weaker, while asking us to do something religious and that doesn’t do anything, it shows me that they have absolutely no interest in solving the problem.

Of course, the reason has nothing to do with their faith, and everything to do with the votes they receive from evangelicals, and even more so the money they are receiving from gun lobbies.