Because: For what does one pray for in that instance? The recovery of the victim, certainly. The mother of the shooter, certainly, and the mother of the victim. The shooter, too. And all those within earshot of the violence.
People turned to prayer and God in Newtown on Friday in an effort to make sense of the unthinkable after a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, inside an elementary school. Churches' doors swung open to a town shaken by one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.