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World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Fifty people were killed inside Pulse, a gay nightclub, Orlando Police Chief John Mina and other officials said Sunday morning, just hours after a shooter opened fire in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. At least 53 more people were injured, Mina said. Police have shot and killed the gunman, he told reporters.
The shooter is not from the Orlando area, Mina said. He has been identified as Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, about 120 miles southeast of Orlando, two law enforcement officials tell CNN.
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..."
In the discussion on this submission, Slashdot readers reported that Reddit is among the sites that have removed some discussions about the shooter's identity, with one reader even reporting "Posts directing people where and how to give blood have been removed."
The shooter is not from the Orlando area, Mina said. He has been identified as Omar Saddiqui Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, about 120 miles southeast of Orlando, two law enforcement officials tell CNN.
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..."
In the discussion on this submission, Slashdot readers reported that Reddit is among the sites that have removed some discussions about the shooter's identity, with one reader even reporting "Posts directing people where and how to give blood have been removed."
While these are certainly the actions of a depraved individual, what do you call the 3 hour delay between first shots (at police) and last shots (by SWAT)? All the while victims were bleeding out (past Golden Hour) and shooting continued.
To me, the delay looks like egregious cowardice, depraved indifference or worse (false flag amplification).
As far as we know, that attacker was a US citizen using legally obtained guns to conduct this attack. Likewise, another shooting just a day before in Florida killing Christina Grimmie took also place with, as far as we know, legally obtained guns. How many more have to die before the 2nd Amendment is repealed? How many more have to suffer until there are effective means put in place to curb the overabundance of firearms? How many more have to get the opportunity to create a blood bath out totally petty reasons? Is it 1,000 more? 10,000? A million? All of us? Terrorism or not, the fact that access to guns is so easy in the US is one of the core reasons not only for such tragedies, but for a much higher crime rate compared to other countries of the same socioeconomic make up. I doubt Americans are more criminal by nature than the Irish or Germans, yet more gun incidents per capita occur in the US than in any other country in the world, including areas of civil war! End this madness! Elect politicians who want to remove the 2nd Amendment and make the US a safer place for all of us!
How about just mentally ill and still able to legally buy guns.
14,000 americans are murdered each year with guns, until you make it harder to get guns, harder to own guns, this will simply continue.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/oct/02/mass-shootings-america-gun-violence
Saying there is a mass shooting in the USA is like saying the sun rises in the morning, no one is really surprised.
Please, please do something to stop this.
Let me guess. You do your "hunting" with an AR-15, right?