There is a tired meme that pops up after each school shooting that has one person asking why people with guns can get into a school and shoot it up. The response is that he could get in because God is locked out.

It is usually posted and shared by the christian prayer in public school crowd and implies that shootings would not happen if christian prayers were allowed in school. Generally I have had it forwarded to me by the same people who demand students should be saying the Pledge of Allegiance, obviously promoting a false cause because they already do.

The meme, however, ignores two things.

Kids can pray in school, but the authorities can neither direct them to nor tell them what prayers to say.

It also ignores that where God is, beyond His being everywhere, there are still shootings, and some happen in his very houses, churches, where He is obviously not locked out.

There’s even this gem.

The Superintendent of Education in South Carolina, Molly Spearman, commented in a video in response to the Parkland school shooting  that keeping students safe was her top priority, and she had been meeting with law enforcement officials to make sure they’re doing everything they can to prevent similar violence in her district. Her advice to report any strange behavior and her words about the importance of making sure students had access to mental health professionals was reasonable, but then she went off the rails when she said that the students need to be brought closer to Jesus.

“… We have also seen the life-changing impact that mentorship programs can bring into troubled students’ lives, and continue to encourage members of our faith community to partner with schools. By sharing Christ’s love, you could be a positive influence that prevents a tragedy like this from occurring.”

This is a list of shootings in the House of God where He is not locked out, or perhaps forget His keys and locked himself out.

• October 2017: Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people.
• November 5, 2017: As parishioners were leaving morning mass at St. Alphonus Church in Fresno California, . Manuel Garcia shot his 61-year-old wife.
• September 20, 2015: James Junior Minter shot his girlfriend, his infant son and a pastor who tried to intervene Sunday morning during church service at Oasis Tabernacle Church in East Selma, Alabama.
• June 17, 2015: A mass shooting took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.
• May 25, 2015: A gunman burst into a Knoxville, Tennessee, church and opened fire with a shotgun while children were performing a production of “Annie” killing one and wounding eight.
• May 24, 2015: The Rev. Dr. Augustus Sealy, 54, who leads the First Church of the Nazarene in Hartford, was shot outside the church.
• December 4, 2014: Pastor Tripp Battle of Bayshore Baptist Church in Bradenton, Florida, and Bayshore Baptist’s Nursery/Children’s director Amber Avalos were killed.
• June 13, 2014: Two Priest were shot at Mother of Mercy church in Phoenix, Arizona.
• September 27, 2013: Woodrow Karey walked into a Calcasieu church in Lake Charles, Louisiana, shooting and killing Pastor Ronald J. Harris Sr., as he was preaching
• September 18, 2013: A gunman wearing a mask entered a South Bend, Indiana church, and shot two bullets at a church member working inside.
• August 20, 2013: Three men in a white vehicle fired gunshots at a group of people on the steps of the Uptown Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois.
• July 22, 2013: Earnest J. Smith fired two shots inside the Norwood, Missouri, First Baptist Church during Sunday morning services.
• March 31, 2013: On Easter Sunday during mass, Reshad Riddle entered Hiawatha Church of God in Christ in Ashtabula, Ohio, with a gun in his hand, screaming about God and Allah, and shooting his father, Richard Riddle.
• January 12, 2013: Steven E. Lawson was shot to death just outside the sanctuary of Full Gospel Christian Church in Flint, Michigan, while attending a funeral.
• December 25, 2012: Bullets were fired outside the East Oakland Church in Oakland, California,  during church services.
• December 10, 2012: A man shot his ex-girlfriend woman multiple times outside of Faith Center Church in Sunrise, Florida.
• December 3, 2012: A man walked inside First United Presbyterian Church in Coudersport, Pennyslvania, and shot his ex-wife as she sat in the church pew.
• November 5, 2012: One churchgoer was killed and another wounded while trying to stop a teenage girl from spray-painting graffiti on the side of the Principe de Paz (“Prince of Peace”) church in Los Angeles, California.
• October 29, 2012: A pastor in Fort Worth, Texas, was killed by an attacker who rammed a car into a church wall, chased the pastor, and beat him with an electric guitar.
• October 31, 2012: Floyd Palmer walked into the chapel of World Changers Church International in Atlanta, Georgia, during prayer services in the evening and shot Gregory McDowell as he led a prayer service.
• September 6, 2012: Pastor Laddie Pierce of West Pensacola Baptist Church in Pensacola,Florida, was shot during bible study, before the normal Wednesday service.
• June 7, 2012: Two people were killed and two others wounded during a shooting outside of a funeral at Victory for the World Church in DeKalb County, Georgia.
• May 3, 2012 Reverend Mary-Marguerite Kohn, co-rector of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City, Maryland, and Brenda Brewington, were killed by a homeless man,
• April 22, 2012: The mother of Pastor De Lono Straham of the Destiny Christian Center in Aurora, Colorado, was shot and killed in the afternoon at the end of the Sunday worship service.
• February 14, 2012: A pastor’s daughter was accidentally shot in the head in a St. Petersburg, Florida, church and died.
• January 24, 2012: A man was unintentional shot after a fundraiser at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Wentzville, Missouri –
• September 18, 2011: Jeremiah Fogle shot Pastor William Boss and associate pastor Carl Stewart at Greater Faith Christian Center Church in Lakeland, Florida.
• December 24, 2010: 9 people were injured after a Christmas Eve party at Club Fathom , a church outreach program for urban youth in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• November 16, 2010: A man attending a class at an East Oakland church in Oakland, California, was lured outside and shot to death on the sidewalk under a cross
• September 27, 2010: Minutes after leaving church in Youngstown, Ohio, someone fired up to a dozen shots at Thomas Repchic as he drove from church with his 74-year-old wife,
• August 30, 2010: Clay Sannar was doing administrative paperwork between services in Visalia, California, when a man came in and fatally shot him.
• February 14, 2010: Three hooded men walk into Gethsemane Church of God in Christ in – Richmond, California, and opened fire and then fled the scene.
• January 7, 2010: Youth Pastor MarShon Peoples was shot in the head after he denied eight teens entry into the “Streams of Hope” party he was hosting in Gaines Township, Michigan, because they smelled like alcohol and marijuana,
• March 8, 2009: Terry Joe Sedlacek walked into the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois, and shot pastor Fred Winters dead.
• July 27, 2008: A gunman opened fire in a Knoxville, Tennessee, church during a youth performance, killing two people and injuring seven.
• December 9, 2007: Matthew J. Murray opened fire at the Youth With A Mission training center in Arvada, Colorado, killing two and wounding two others before escaping. Subsequently he attacked the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with a number of firearms, killing two more people and injuring three.
• May 20, 2007: A standoff between police and a suspect in a Presbyterian Church in Moscow, Idaho ended with three dead, including one police officer.
• 12, 2007: Eiken Elam Saimon shot and killed the pastor and two deacons and wounded five others at the Neosho, Missouri, First Congregational Church.
• May 21, 2006: At the Ministry of Jesus Christ Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana 4 people who were members of Erica Bell’s family shot and killed before she was abducted and murdered elsewhere. Bell’s mother, the church pastor Claudia Brown, was seriously wounded.
• February 26, 2006: Kevin L. Collins went to the Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, looking for his girlfriend and shot 2 people.
• April 9, 2005: A 27-year-old airman died after being shot at a church in College Park, Georgia.
• March 12, 2005: Terry Ratzmann opened fire on the congregation of the Living Church of God in Brookfield, Wisconsin, killing seven and wounding four.
• July 30, 2005: Air Force Staff Sgt. John Givens was shot five times by a police officer after charging the officer at the World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia.
• 17, 2004: A veteran musician at the Crystal Cathedral shoots himself to death after a nine-hour standoff in Garden Grove, California.
• 5, 2003: Shelia Wilson walked into the Turner Monumental AME Church in Atlanta, Georgia, while preparations are being made for service and shot the pastor.
• June 10, 2002 – Conception, Missouri – Benedictine monastery – 2 killed + shooter – Lloyd Robert Jeffress shot four monks in the monastery killing two and wounding two, before killing himself.
• March 12, 2002: Peter Troy, a former mental patient, opened fire during Mass at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Lynbrook, New York, killing the priest and a parishioner.
• May 18, 2001: Frederick Radford stood up in the middle of a revival service at the Hopkinsville, Kentucky Greater Oak Missionary Baptist Church and began shooting at his estranged wife, killing her and a woman trying to help her.
• 1, 2000: The wife of a minister fatally shoots her daughter in Kansas City.
• 15, 1999: Larry Gene Ashbrook shot and killed seven people and injured a further seven at a concert by Christian rock group Forty Days at the Fort Worth, Texas, Wedgewood Baptist Church
• April 15, 1999: Sergei Babarin, with a history of mental illness, entered the library at Salt Lake City, Utah, LDS Church Family History Library, killing two people and wounded four others.

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Certainly, God was not locked out of those places, and in most of these cases prople were praying and others preaching.

God being locked out of schools as the reason for shootings is  ans asinine distraction, and those who promote it are using tragedies to scare people to their religious beliefs.

Schools don’t need more God. They need fewer unnecessary guns in their communities and politicians willing to stand up to the NRA.