MANCHESTER, NH (AP) – Within hours of a mass shooting in El Paso, 2020 Democrat hopefuls took to the airwaves to reach out with their thoughts and prayers to the shooter, Patrick Crusius, thanking him for providing them with an excuse to accuse President Trump of racism and advocate for new restrictive gun laws that wouldn’t have made a difference.

“My thoughts and prayers go out to Patrick Crusius,” New Jersey Senator Cory Booker said. “There is complicity in the president’s hatred. Because in a time of rising hatred, it’s not enough to say that ‘I’m not a hate monger myself.’ If you are not actively working against hate, you are complicit in what is going on. You have to actively hate hate. You have to be a hate hater, hating hate with a hateful hatred, or you’re just another hater. Because, except for hateful hatred hating, hate is horrible!”

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said “my thoughts and prayers go out to Patrick Crusius” because “confronting white nationalist terrorism would be embarrassing for a president who helped stoke many of these feelings in this country to begin with. At best, Trump is condoning and encouraging white nationalism,” Buttigieg said. “Everyone knows that Trump is a white nationalist because he took an oath – voluntarily, mind you – to protect the Constitution. But what does the Constitution say about people who aren’t white? That they’re only 3/5 of a person! Do the math people! That means President Trump thinks he’s 5/3 better than anyone who’s not white! He might as well have pulled the trigger.”

After saying that her “thoughts and prayers go out to Patrick Crusius,” Senator Kamala Harris also found blame in Trump’s use of language, saying “We have a president of the United States who has chosen to use his words in a way that has been about selling hate and division among us. Selling it! Probably making a tidy profit on it, too. If he were any kind of human being, he would give away hate and division for free, like I do.”

Bernie Sanders also sent “thoughts and prayers to Mr. Crusius” before switching the subject to guns.

“Assault weapons are designed for one reason. They are military weapons,” Sanders said, urging the Senate to “have a special session to address gun violence in America and let us finally have the courage to take on the NRA. This same NRA that wants every American in America to go around shooting other Americans. An organization dedicated to bloodshed and killing and a gun behind every bush, behind every tree, and in every pocket. If it were any worse, my heavily-armed Secret Service detachment wouldn’t be able keep me protected from crazy shooters, and I’d have to risk getting cut down like a common unarmed citizen in flyover country.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren paused briefly to “send thoughts and prayers out to Patrick” before explaining that the Senate should immediately vote on some sort of gun bill. “It’s not everything we need to do on gun safety, but we could take important steps, and we could demonstrate to the American people that the gun manufacturers are not the ones who are calling the shots in Washington… no pun intended. Anyway, if we can ban one gun and save just one life, that’s enough, as long as it’s the life of a mass shooter. That way, we can use his murder spree to pass more gun laws.”

Although President Trump didn’t offer “prayers” for Crusius, he did tweet a thought:

“The first time you pulled the trigger, you should’ve checked your aim. Your muzzle was off-target by 180 degrees.”

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