50 Dead and 50 More Wounded In Terror Attack On Orlando Nightclub
This is a horrible tragedy with so many dead and wounded caused by the terror attack on a Orlando nightclub. I am actually amazed a terrorist has not tried to attack a packed night club sooner considering how crowded they can be and have few exits to escape:
A gunman opened fire inside at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday, killing 50 people and leaving 53 others hospitalized in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Officials identified the gunman as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen. According to the Washington Post, Mateen’s family is from Afghanistan, while Mateen is believed to have been born in the United States. According to CBS News, Mateen had no apparent criminal history.
You can read much more at the link, but the FBI is treating this as an act of domestic terrorism despite not knowing if the shooter was inspired by radical Islam:
Orlando authorities said they consider the violence an act of domestic terror. The FBI is involved. While investigators are exploring all angles, they “have suggestions the individual has leanings towards (Islamic terrorism), but right now we can’t say definitely,” said Ron Hopper, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Orlando bureau. [CNN]
Also get this authorities according to the article are also investigating if this is a hate crime. ABC News is reporting that Omar Mateen has been on the radar of authorities as a possible threat:
Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old U.S.-born citizen, has been identified as the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting that left at least 50 dead and more than 50 others wounded at the Pulse Nightclub, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Mateen’s parents were born in Afghanistan, and he was “on the radar” of U.S. officials for some time, but was not the target of a specific investigation, law enforcement officials told ABC News. [ABC News]
TMZ is reporting that Omar Mateen was a security guard with proper fire arms licensing and they have a picture of the terrorist wearing an NYPD shirt:
The killer in the Orlando nightclub slaughter is 29-year-old Omar Mateen. TMZ has done a records search and found he held a Florida security officer license and a state firearms license. [TMZ]
His parents say the killings had nothing to do with religion and instead he just hated gay people. NYPD also says that Mateen has nothing to do with the department.
How come I have a feeling that after this there will once again be an effort to restrict everyone’s right to own a firearm instead of finding ways to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and terrorists that commit just about every mass shooting in the US?
Coincidentally this weekend “The Voice” singer Christina Grime was gunned downed in an unrelated shooting in Orlando this weekend as well.
Condolences to everyone affected by both shootings.
An important point to remember is that first generation Americans with immigrant parents frequently have values that align with their parents… and their parents don’t necessarily have values that align with America.
It is fashionable to label anchor babies and such as fully “American”… but this may not be as true as is being promoted.
The constant push for “diversity” and “acceptance” has further encouraged this division of culture and values.
American hatred of LBGT values pushed by conservatives sounds like a reason this nightclub was targeted and it’s already Obama’s fault for his lies to the American people, nothing about the “mentally ill.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkRetQZaFjk
Reports: Orlando Blood Center Lifts Ban on Blood Donations from Gay Men
https://mobile.twitter.com/BenjaminDiCosta/status/742012251847168000
“American hatred of LBGT values pushed by conservatives sounds like a reason this nightclub was targeted”
Absolutely. It doesn’t get any more “conservative” than Islam… and conservative Islam, not American political conservatives, killed these LBGTs.
Can anyone explain what is up with all the American/European liberal love for Islam, the desire for importation of more Islam, and the general protection and promotion of Islam?
Are liberals simply so idealistic, anti-American, or anti-conservative they have become disconnected from reality?
Islam is in direct conflict with all of the big liberal issues… women’s rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, gun ownership, separation of religion and politics, freedom to use drugs and alcohol, etc.
The only thing American liberals and Islam seem to agree on is abortion and lack of personal hygiene.
Honestly. WTF?
If we shame political conservatives and restrict guns will this type of thing stop?
There is a lack of both guns and conservatives in much of Europe and they suffered the same situations recently and likely will for the foreseeable future.
There must be a common factor. I just can’t put my finger on it.
“Absolutely” I did’t didn’t see anything absolute in what you said.
But in your own WTF admission conservatives and Islam are similar on the following issues… “women’s rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, gun ownership, separation of religion and politics, freedom to use drugs and alcohol.” 😳
On abortion(only a conservative would raise the issue of abortion in connection with hatred), conservatives and Muslim scholars have held that the child of rape is a legitimate child and thus it would be sinful to kill this child.
” anyone explain what is up with all the American/European liberal love for Islam, the desire for importation of more Islam, and the general protection and promotion of Islam?”
Your question framework blows but you hit a bullseye with brewing more hatred ❗
Maybe T-bone is on to something. Maybe this terrorist was not motivated by radical Islam, but is instead a member of the Tea Party! 🙄
Just read the shooter worked for our favorite security Contractor here, G4S. lol
“Security firm G4S confirmed he’d been an employee since September 2007. “
@Andy, it is amazing that this guy was investigated by the FBI for terror links and he is still allowed to work at G4S and keep the license for his weapons.
You heard it here folks — the LBGTQ (can we get a vowel, please?) community was slaughtered because of conservative views on the family unit, and its place in keeping an ordered society…not moslem scum living 5 or 6 centuries in the past.
At this point, it doesn’t appear as if the guy in LA was going to attempt to target gays for being gay as he is reportedly bisexual.
BONEHEAD: Your reports are wrong. No blood from gay men having sexual contact with other men in the past year.
Rutherz: For your Vowel Pleasure:
A-Asexual
I-Intersex
LGBTQAIWTFBBQ
As for mass murder at a LGBT event attempt #2, I have to admit I would be curious how the Media would try to spin two nearly identical stories, but one with a Muslim star, while the other had a Biseexual.
Fortunately, we will never know.
It just seems like there should be a way to stop someone like this from legally buying a gun:
Here is what his ex-wife who was abused and considers herself fortunate to have survived the marriage had to say:
The more I read about this guy it appears this guy not only has emotional problems or mental illness, but is also inspired by radical Islam.
The Orlando shooter was a Federal Contractor. He was probably using a weapom supplied by the government. Spin that.
Hillary wants to disarm gays: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/742345536339087360
Trump said:
Let’s see, the shooter was born in the USA and was 29 years old, so his family must have immigrated at least in the late 80’s. In the 80’s, Afghanistan was at war with the Soviet Union, we were supplying weapons and support to them and there was no Taliban.
Radicalism is not a genetic trait that can be used to sort them out. Keeping a body count metric on how many radical islamists we’ve killed is not an absolute way of measuring success in combating them. Fighting them ‘over there’ has not and will not ensure that we won’t have to fight them ‘over here.’ There is not a fixed number of radical islamists in the world. People aren’t born radicalized, they become radicalized.
Religion is a crutch for a lot of people.
Christianity attracts crazy like a light bulb attracts moths… and I dare anyone to argue this with me.
Islam attracts crazy like a big pile of day-old shyt attracts flies in the summer sun… and I dare anyone to argue that with me, too.
I have been dealing with Iranians for several months… and perhaps, when the time is right, I will give some insight on the matter…
…whatever you think you know… well… you are likely wrong… as everything I know something about is completely misrepresented in the news… so i have very very very little faith the news is right on anything I don’t know about…
,,,and neither should you…
…but right now, I am willing to clearly state that Iranians may be crazy because of Islam… but they are more likely crazy because they are Persians… or Iranians… or something. Islam must be their crutch,,, to solve the cultural dysfunction that seems to exist in most of them.
Fucckity fucckity fucck fucck fucck,,,, they are some crazy fuuckers… and I am dying to share some of the stuff I have gone through with anyone…
..but once you understand their thinking, they are so easy to deal with.
I was bugged by a guy who was doing the wrong thing (but, as a senior guy, nobody would tell him the error of his ways)… so, in frustration that the project was having problems because he was a screw-up, I took him aside and told him his faults directly… and then roughed him up a bit physically… a big shock to everyone… but a good shock…
I insulted him in the harshest way possible.. and he vanished for a week… though everyone else thanked me for my action,
Two weeks later, he was back on the project like nothing happened, He has improved about 50% rather than 100%… but I can manage that.
He is actually a really nice guy… and smart… and a bit geeky… but there can be no disruption on this.
There is a goal… and anyone not putting in 100% is going to get the biitch-smack.
Side note: I have some Iranian girls doing the makeup for the American and European girls… and… OMG… they are so good at it. Iranian girls are thick in the azz… but they are awesome from the tits up.
Chickenhead I look forward to hearing your complete Iranian story some day. I always figured you were helping them build ICBMs not juicy bars. 😉
This whole Iranian thing is not as thrilling or mysterious as it may seem. Perhaps I will share the entire amusing story in the future.
Anyway… it is amusing to watch some parts of the media run circles around itself on this terrorist event.
A Democrat-voting non-white gay anchor baby islamic terrorist kills a bunch of Hispanic homosexuals and the leftist media-political complex searches high and low for an acceptable villian… which becomes Guns/NRA, Trump’s Hate, and an occasional Christian.
The usual gang of self-serving politicians can’t bring themselves to speak honestly about this event… in great contrast to Trump. It’s almost like the Establishment WANTS him to get elected… as their weakness to even honestly talk about the problems of terrorism and immigration bring little faith that they can solve them… and even less faith when they openly promote immigration and indirectly excuse terrorists.
Side note: History will certainly show that Trump operatives are handing out Mexican flags and easy-to-burn American flags and pumping up the Mexican cockroaches infesting Trump rallies to spit profanities and burn cop cars. Politicians making excuses for these insects simply solidify what Trump is saying.
Nobody knows if Trump will be a good president… but honest speaking will be a refeshing new experience.
“The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here,”
That is the bottom line.
There is very little that Islam can contribute to American society. There is nothing that unskilled and unvetted refugees can contribute to American society… as demonstrated by almost all of them being on perpetual welfare after they arrive.
Islam is in direct conflict with the Constitution and with many established American ideals that are shared by many/most American subcultures.
First generation “Americans” are responsible for around half of terrorist incidents in America… as their parents have great influence on their values and thinking… and many of their parents have not been propery investigated to see if they are thrilled to be Americans or if they are bringing and perpetuating the same cultural pollution they claimed to be escaping.
So. The reason this scumbag was in America is because his scumbag family was allowed in America… and if you start looking into his father, you will see some serious scumbaggery… and it is not hard to imagine his crotchfruit being exactly what he became.
And that is the bottom line.
TEACH CIVILIAN GOV’T EMPLOYEES NOT TO KILL:
The gist of the news is that a gay Muslim wife-beater employed by the Government as an armed security guard relocating illegal aliens across the country killed 49 other gays and wounded 53 more before Florida police were given permission to kill him.
And the government again wants us to use the actions of their employee to take away our 2A rights. Remember the San Bernadino killer was also employed by the government.
Remember when it was just “Postal Workers”?
For those that haven’t heard yet what Setnaffa is referring to, Mateen was gay and was a regular at the Pulse nightclub for the past three years.
Correction 49 Dead and the GOPers answer is always to pray but do nothing, pray, do nothing, etc…Don’t them “Christians” read their James 2: 17 bible book verse?
“So too, faith by itself, if it is not complemented by action, is dead.”
Why do them GOPers pray but do nothing…hmmmmm, $$$$$ is more important to them than their bible.
Full Frontal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t88X1pYQu-I
Islamic State Twitter accounts get a rainbow makeover from Anonymous hackers
Social media accounts associated with the group got an LGBT-friendly makeover courtesy of WachulaGhost
Thank You President Barack Obama!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/17/islamic-state-twitter-accounts-rainbow-makeover-anonymous-hackers
“The loose hacking collective, which grew out of the infamous 4Chan forum in the late 2000s, announced its war on Isis in 2015, taking control of almost 100 twitter accounts following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris that year.
Now, after the murder of 49 people in a gay club in Orlando, Florida, a hacker who goes by the name WauchulaGhost says he has taken control of more than 200 accounts belonging to Isis supporters. This time, rather than simply lock the users out of the accounts or report them to Twitter, the cybervigilante has given the accounts a gay-friendly makeover….”
Just as many in the nation have come down with Afrofatigue, I predict that people will also begin to suffer from Islamofatigue as well. I certainly hope this has opened people’s eyes to some of the very real problems that Europe has been facing and we are now beginning to face more frequently.
There will be a time in the near future when Trump’s proposal to put a temporary hold on Muslim immigrants until they can be properly vetted will seem like a very reasonable suggestion to a large percentage of Americans as opposed to right now when it only appeals to those with intelligence and foresight.
“Your own fanboy house speaker”
I don’t even know what that means.
Ryan is a piece of shyt of the highest order.
Hopefully he loses his next election and that will be the end of that.
Please stop calling the assault rifle used in Orlando & Newtown the”AR-15.” It is the M-16 weapon we used in Vietnam, modified for civilian use
Ammo used in AR-15/M-16 is banned by Geneva Convention. It enters the body, spins & explodes. Show the crime scene photos & the NRA is over.
173 mass shootings in the US in forts 163 days of 2016.
Just fold up your M-16 and tuck it up your jacket/down your baggy pants(extra ammo in pockets) and go clubbing/dancing, meet up with others doing same(for safety), clink clank clink clank on the dance floor.
tbone, your depth of ignorance is unapproachable.
Orlando victims’ families and survivors will sue gunmaker Sig Sauer
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-nightclub-massacre-can-victims-sue-gun-maker-sig-sauer-and-employer-g4s/
“And an impending ruling by a Connecticut Superior Court judge in the Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school shooting case three-and-a-half years ago could give these victims and their families a pathway to retribution and compensation.
This week Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis set a trial date for the civil suit naming gunmaker Remington, its wholesaler and the retailer of the gun used in the Newtown shooting — and ordered defendants to disclose marketing materials and internal documents.
The issue is known as “negligent entrustment,” the giving or selling of a gun to a person with a high risk of misusing it, for example, giving a loaded pistol to a child. The Newtown case takes it one step further by claiming that some semi-automatic weapons, because they fire multiple shots without reloading, are a weapon of war and therefore should never be sold to a civilian.”
“Orlando victims’ families and survivors will sue gunmaker Sig Sauer”
Suing involved mosques and Islamic organizations would likely be more correct.
I don’t recall any attempts to ban handguns after Virginia Tech, which was the highest death toll mass shooting until Orlando.
The fascination with banning “assault rifles” is baffling. If such a ban were successful, what would the argument be after the next mass shooting, when someone kills the same amount of people with pistols or any other type of rifle with the same caliber and capacity of rounds as the dreaded assault rifle? Undoubtedly there would be another class of firearm to ban.
I think we can all guess as to what the left’s ambitions really are. Give them a rifle and they take a whole amendment.
Out of curiosity, I wonder exactly how much of the gay vote is going to go for Trump after this. I don’t imagine it would be a huge number but you never know. Surely some can see that it is madness to try to take away one easily replaceable tool from the jihadists who would seek to slay them instead of trying to stop the importation of the jihadists themselves.
Not to mention suing the Gov’t contractor that employed the dirtbag, the local police that apparently lost track of the shooter’s wife, and DHS for hiring him.
NBC, never the most trustworthy, threatens gays with violence if they “come out” for Trump… http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lgbtrump-gay-men-voting-donald-trump-n594691
@johnnyboy, I think the assault weapon ban is more of look we are trying to do something instead of actually trying to resolve the problem. Plus the general public is largely uninformed on AR-15s and equate them to a Rambo machine gun which makes banning them an easier position to take.
@setnaffa, it will be interesting to see if Trump’s position of protecting LGBT people from radical Islam jihadists will make any in roads with them. Also the violence caused by the anti-Trump protesters is really something the MSM has been downplaying compared to for example in the past tea party protesters that were no where near as violent as these anti-Trump mobs.