"In America, it is nearly impossible to have a rational discussion, much less win an argument when it comes to guns, gays or God — especially when the three intersect as they did early Sunday morning at a club in Orlando, Fla. That’s when Omar Mateen, an American of Afghan descent who happens to be a Muslim by birth if not by practice, entered a gay nightclub called Pulse with an AR-15 assault rifle and murder on his mind.
During a pause in the killing, Mateen called 911 and declared his allegiance to the Islamic State. The bloodbath was inspired by the brutality of IS, but not directed by that terrorist cult. Mateen needed a larger rationale than homophobia to justify initiating the deadliest mass shooting in American history, otherwise he’d be just another disturbed gunman in a country that manages to produce lone wolf killers daily with conveyor belt efficiency...
After press reports of Mateen’s ad hoc “allegiance” to IS began circulating in the media, the terrorist cult gladly claimed him as one of its own since it is not about to begin discriminating against anyone willing to kill in its name. Thanks to Mateen, IS hauled in a lot of souls without raising an operational finger. All they had to do was accept Mateen’s sacrifice as their own and let the headlines in the western press do the rest....
Like any American, he reached for a Second Amendment Solution to assuage the voices of hatred throbbing in his head. He bought the assault rifle and another gun the U.S. Constitution said he was entitled to by virtue of birth and citizenship, but he couldn’t buy all the body armor he wanted, ironically enough. It turns out that one does not have a constitutional right to unlimited body armor, because unlike AR-15s, the Founding Fathers were silent on that.
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion...massacre-only-in-America/stories/201606140076
During a pause in the killing, Mateen called 911 and declared his allegiance to the Islamic State. The bloodbath was inspired by the brutality of IS, but not directed by that terrorist cult. Mateen needed a larger rationale than homophobia to justify initiating the deadliest mass shooting in American history, otherwise he’d be just another disturbed gunman in a country that manages to produce lone wolf killers daily with conveyor belt efficiency...
After press reports of Mateen’s ad hoc “allegiance” to IS began circulating in the media, the terrorist cult gladly claimed him as one of its own since it is not about to begin discriminating against anyone willing to kill in its name. Thanks to Mateen, IS hauled in a lot of souls without raising an operational finger. All they had to do was accept Mateen’s sacrifice as their own and let the headlines in the western press do the rest....
Like any American, he reached for a Second Amendment Solution to assuage the voices of hatred throbbing in his head. He bought the assault rifle and another gun the U.S. Constitution said he was entitled to by virtue of birth and citizenship, but he couldn’t buy all the body armor he wanted, ironically enough. It turns out that one does not have a constitutional right to unlimited body armor, because unlike AR-15s, the Founding Fathers were silent on that.
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion...massacre-only-in-America/stories/201606140076
