Oh it sounds just awful.
The killer apparently took hostages and was killed or killed himself, along with multiple other victims.
Apparently everyone including the police are still confused about what happened.
Dammit, Florida Man.
CNN keeps showing a banner saying “FBI looking at possible ties to Islamic Terrorism”. Saying 20 dead and 42 injured.
Yeah, first Christina Grimmie, now this. Both in Orlando. Two tragedies back-to-back. People must be reeling right now.
Some people are undoubtedly glad both shooters are dead, but I would have liked to see them both live to stand trial and be held accountable for their murders.
While it could be Islamic terrorism, “gay night club” suggests hate crime instead.
It could easily be both. Hate crimes often are terrorism, they just don’t get called that since the label “terrorist” is usually only applied to certain groups, such as Muslims.
It’s premature to say whether this was a hate crime or terrorism, they need to figure out if the shooter had any ties with anyone. Was he a sleeper cell or a homophobe? Nobody knows. How sad for the victims and their families. Hope those in the hospital recover quickly.
Or it could be (probably not very likely, but certainly possible) that the shooter simply picked it as a convenient place where he knew a lot of people would be.
Happened in my backyard. Just damn. Folks, if you don’t have to be at the downtown hospitals, don’t. Too many people are trying to get word of their loved ones.
You know who else commits terrorist attacks and hates gay rights? Christian fundamentalists. The same people who blow up abortion clinics.
Not this time: suspect is Omar Saddiqui Mateen.
Police are doing a news conference right now. Just announced 50 dead and 52 wounded.
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They are reporting that he is an American citizen, but his family is from Afghanistan.
Given this guys name there will undoubtedly be people saying this is Islamic terrorism however NBC is reporting they spoke to the shooters father and he related the son had been upset when he recently saw two men kissing in public. Regardless of Mateen’s religion I think that makes this sound more like a hate crime. YMMV
My speculation is that he will turn out to be a gay Muslim who was repressed by his own community and this was his way of lashing out. I have no evidence to back this up, just a wild ass guess.
Body count is now 50 or more; it’s being called the worst mass killing in US history. (Probably qualified by single-shooter, single-incident.)
Yeah, sorting out an Islamic shooter in a gay nightclub in the Trump quadrant of 2016 is going to keep all the talk shows going for years.
Jesus, people, what are we doing to ourselves?
Sounds like a hate crime to me as well.
Nice - blame it on a gay person. Because we all know that straights can’t be homophobes.
Right - couldn’t have much to do with his religion. After all, Islam has no problem with men kissing in public, gay nightclubs, etc.