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Gabbard responded: "So why is it that people like Jen Psaki and others have such a spontaneous visceral negative reaction to those who are praying to God for refuge, strength, and for the wellbeing of the victims of this heinous attack? Because they do not believe in God or His love."

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I have to thank Ess Ajay for drawing my attention to this. Warning: gruesome details ahead.
On 13 May 1976, a shed in Grey Lynn blew up.
"An explosion in a shed in Grey Lynn, Auckland, late this afternoon killed two persons, scattering their remains 100 yards on to Great North Road. The people, believed to be members of the Hare Krishna sect, were thought to be working in a shed behind a house in Dean Street rented by members of the sect.
"At first the police were not sure how many people had died. Parts of bodies were scattered over a wide area. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. It occurred at 4.40 p.m. The police cordoned off almost a quarter of a mile of Great North Road, diverting homeward drivers and pedestrians. The explosion shattered windows of adjoining buildings, scattering wood, iron, and steel tubing over 100 yards from the shed. Human remains were quickly covered, but smaller pieces of matter covered the road, adjoining buildings and cars in several sales yards nearby. The wooden building was reduced to a kindling-wood pile of rubble.
"Inspector P I Jenkinson, in charge of police inquiries, said the cause of the explosion was not known, but an inspector of explosives was making inquiries. One witness, Mr J Litherland of Gollins, said he heard a "terrific” explosion. Still shaken while telling of his experience, Mr Litherland said: “As I came around the corner the first thing I saw was a human arm on the road. The hand had a wedding ring on it. I looked up the road about 175 yards and there were bits of body strewn around. It looked like a bloody battlefield. I looked around and could see where the explosion had been. It was a terrific shock.”
"Another witness, Mrs B Fraser, who works in an adjoining building, said she heard an “almighty” bang, followed by a “plop,” and a small piece of a body landed on the road. “I looked further along the road, although there was a car blocking my view. I saw a hand. I just screamed. I screamed to the boss, went to the back and looked out of the building. I saw streaks of blood across the place and could just see bits and pieces of wood where the shed was. I could see bits and pieces of human. It was ghastly — unbelievable,” Mrs Fraser said.
"Two Roman Catholic priests who heard of the fatalities went to the scene to anoint any bodies. They soon found out the extent of the damage. The Rev P M Meuli said: “We walked right past the scene without realising we were in the middle of it.”
"One witness, who was working in the offices of a car sales yard, Sports Car World, which backs on to the area where the explosion occurred, said he thought his building had been blown up. “I thought the whole place had blown up because the building just suddenly shook violently. I was shocked for a minute,” he said. “A concrete retaining wall which backs right on to the scene probably saved us from the blast. As it was all the light fittings in the office were smashed and fell to the floor.” A carport at the rear of the office had several large holes ripped out of the ceiling and a stack of shelves in it had its contents thrown to the ground.
"Mr M J Loverich, the manager of Loverich Motors, whose property is only yards from where the explosion happened, said he was outside scraping paint off some cars. “There was a loud bang, and then an explosion. Debris was flying through the air, followed by a very dense cloud of smoke which filled the sky,” he said. He said bits of timber and iron rocketed from the explosion and were flung through the air and landed as far as 200 yards away.
"Another witness near the scene said pieces of human membrane were flung out and some landed on the surface of Great North Road, some 100 yards from the seat of the explosion. “It was just unbelievable; really bad; the guys would not have had any time at all to think what had happened.” The ferocity of the explosion was evident. Many of the cars in the car sales yards which line Great North Road, near the scene, were splattered with blood." (Press 14 May 1976)
Those killed in the blast were David Bonner, 22, and Duncan Bonnington, 21. At a Hare Krishna spiritual centre on a farm in Hikurangi in 1974, Bonner's interest in explosives became well known, and he was called "Dave the Bomber" by some, but not really taken seriously. He and Bonnington moved into a rented house and shed at 49 Dean Street in 1975, neither of them a member of the Hare Krishnas. Some had joked that Bonner may have had intentions to blow up a meat works, but none could say Bonner actually said that himself. He was, however, an anti-abortion supporter.
Whatever his intentions, things ended rather abruptly with that premature explosion one day in May, in Grey Lynn, in 1976.

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She added: “I completely feel that way. And what I said yesterday and will say again now, though, is that prayer alone is not enough to prevent and end the crisis of gun violence in America. It’s not.”

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"The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a law enforcement agency within the **U.S. Department of Justice**. Formerly, prior to approximately 2003, the ATF was under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, but has since been transferred to the oversight of the Department of Justice."