I Blame Hate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mischa-haider/i-blame-hate_b_10431484.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender

The Huffington Post/By Mischa Haider    06/12/2016 07:37 pm ET | Updated 3 hours ago

"The homophobic and transphobic carnage in Orlando was a 'plane crash', with the blood and corpses of LGBTQ people splattered across the headlines. However, LGBTQ people are dying of hate, isolation, exclusion, and violence daily, in 'car crashes' that do not catch the public eye. Gay children are being bullied to death in our schools, trans women beaten to death on our streets, and the public does not bat an eye. After the Pulse nightclub massacre, there will be the customary vigils, speeches, and rainbow processions, vows of solidarity, and then the predictable return to business as usual. My heart is exploding with love and grief for those who have died and are dying, and it is also burning with anger at those who perpetrate, encourage, and enable these atrocities. I am left wondering, amid all the prayers and mourning, wherein lies the responsibility and who is to blame?

I blame Ted Cruz, Pat McCrory, and every single politician in America and around the world who has promoted fear and hatred against the LGBTQ community in attempt to garner more vote."

American politicians don't get credit for this one.  It was a religiously motivated act and the religion wasn't Christianity.

"A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to Islamic State . . ."  http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0YY08B?utm_source=applenews


Sapere Aude

I blame gun free zones for they encourage armed lunatics to take their anger and violence to these zones for they are safer to the shooter then a zone where anyone could be packing which isn't good for the shooter.

They attack our Soldiers in the Middle East and our Soldiers are not gun free.  So that argument doesn't hold up when the shooter is an ideologically motivated terrorist.


Sapere Aude

Yes, it is hard to believe that arming everyone to the hilt like a spaghetti western from the 1960s would add much safety to the situation. By arming more people, you'd also have more deaths due to previously responsible gun owners "snapping" as it were.

The one guy who had a conceal and carry on campus the morning of the college shooting here in Oregon, said he felt like if he had intervened he might shoot the wrong person or end up being shot by law enforcement himself.

The more love we can interject into the world the better, the more openness, the more free and open speech and entertainment, the more women's and general human rights we can win, the more good people stepping up and helping others and finding common ground, we can do the better. Those are true weapons against hate.

I'll just shoot back thanks

The killer was a loony, guns & nutcases = bad mixture. If it hadn't been a gay club it would have been somewhere else that presented an easy target

Quote from: RobynD on June 13, 2016, 04:00:03 PM
Yes, it is hard to believe that arming everyone to the hilt like a spaghetti western from the 1960s would add much safety to the situation. By arming more people, you'd also have more deaths due to previously responsible gun owners "snapping" as it were.

I hate the National Rifle Association and its President Wayne LaPierre.  They want people carrying guns everywhere: at the market, in school, in church.  They can't seem to envision anyplace in life that wouldn't be improved by bringing your gun.  But after the massacre in Orlando, even Wayne LaPierre and the NRA said it wasn't a good idea to bring guns to a bar/disco:

"I don't think you should have firearms where people are drinking," said NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre.

Also: "No one thinks that people should go into a nightclub drinking and carrying firearms. That defies commonsense. It also defies the law," Chris Cox [NRA's chief lobbyist] said.

Here's a link to the source:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/19/orlando-nightclub-patrons-shouldnt-have-been-armed-nra-says/86113928/