ISIS has claimed responsibility for the slaughter of innocents in Orlando last night where 50 were killed and another 52 were injured in a gay night club. This is an unthinkable level of depravity and carnage.
How is it possible for anybody to buy a weapon that can mow down over 100 people? As far as I'm concerned it needs to be illegal to sell any weapon capable of firing more than 10 shots.
Beyond that, how is it possible that someone who is on an FBI terrorist watch list to buy an assault weapon? Must the weapons lobby, the NRA, insist on selling anything to anyone just as long as it gets its money?
My heart goes out to the killed and wounded and all those who love them or loved them. This is just too much pain to have to live with.
Apparently, the fascist wing of Islam, the Islamofascists, think that they are justified by their holy texts to kill gay people. What a stupid idea. It's just bigotry and fear of homosexuality dressed up in religious robes. I am convinced that those who are violently against gays are afraid that they actually have gay tendencies and are violently opposed to gay urges in themselves. They manifest that fear by acting out dogmatically and violently against gays. They are manifesting their own fears, and quite frankly revealing their own attractions to same sex people which is something they cannot come to terms with in themselves.
I believe that ISIS wants to have a say in this year's presidential election. They have been trying to bait the U.S. into a massive ground war in the Middle East because they believe it is written in their holy scripts that the Armageddon is coming and is necessary for the establishment of their caliphate where strict Islamic rule is the rule of the land. They see this as required by their God. So far, Obama has done a good job of not taking the bait and keeping the U.S. out of the religious civil wars in the Middle East (at least as much as possible)
I have expected atrocious attacks during this election cycle because I believe they want our presidential candidates to take the bait and promise to send massive troops to the Middle East. It's bait. It's a trap.
We should treat this as terrorism, not as an existential war. So far, Obama is doing that. Will Trump? How about Hillary? I think Trump will see this as his ticket to the White House because the only people he pays any attention to are the Right Wing radicals on the radio and Fox News. And I presume that there will not be any call for thoughtful response in those quarters.
I would love to be wrong about this.
