{"id":2448225,"date":"2019-09-01T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=879066"},"modified":"2019-09-01T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:03:45","slug":"kiss-paul-stanley-prayers-and-sympathy-are-not-enough-after-odessa-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/kiss-paul-stanley-prayers-and-sympathy-are-not-enough-after-odessa-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss\u2019 Paul Stanley: \u2018Prayers and Sympathy Are Not Enough\u2019 After Odessa Mass Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9948175c.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kiss\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kiss\" data-tag=\"kiss\">Kiss<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paul-stanley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-stanley\" data-tag=\"paul-stanley\">Paul Stanley<\/a> called for action on gun violence in America following the latest mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, where seven people were killed and over 20 injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have more \u2018crazy\u2019 or \u2018mentally unstable\u2019 people in the US. What we DO have are commonplace mass shootings with automatic and semi-automatic high powered firearms,\u201d the guitarist tweeted Sunday. \u201cTHAT cannot be disputed. Tell me what we and our government must do. Prayers and sympathy are not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the shooter \u2013 described in news reports as a white male in his mid-30s with \u201can AR-type weapon\u201d \u2013 went on a shooting rampage in Odessa, a Texas city less than 300 miles east of El Paso, which also recently witnessed a mass shooting. Following a routine traffic stop, the shooter \u201cproceeded on a shooting spree in the City of Odessa\u201d and hijacked a mail carrier before authorities killed the suspect during a shootout in a movie theater parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley\u2019s tweet drew the usual ire of Second Amendment defenders, who told the Kiss singer to stick to music. \u201cI DON\u2019T KNOW THE ANSWER but am asking for everyone\u2019s thoughts. Anyone who thinks I should \u2018stay in my lane\u2019 should leave now,\u201d Stanley responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is MY house. If you DO have opinions why shouldn\u2019t I? In this case I will leave up some of those dopey comments for your enjoyment. Not again.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7216216216216\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">We don\u2019t have more \u201ccrazy \u201c or \u201cmentally unstable \u201c people in the US. What we DO have are commonplace mass shootings with automatic and semi-automatic high powered firearms. THAT cannot be disputed. Tell me what we and our government must do. Prayers and sympathy are not enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KpWZa0xJcY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KpWZa0xJcY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulStanleyLive\/status\/1168217205961613313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kiss-paul-stanley-odessa-mass-shooting-879066\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss\u2019 Paul Stanley called for action on gun violence in America following the latest mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, where seven people were killed and over 20 injured. \u201cWe don\u2019t have more \u2018crazy\u2019 or \u2018mentally unstable\u2019 people in the US. What we DO have are commonplace mass shootings with automatic and semi-automatic high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 03:26:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}