America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?

[Jorge]

I dont think anybody is stating this is soley a gun control issue, but as trag noted above, it is a very important and immediate thing that can be taken care of. how was this guy able to go in and buy such a weapon after being on the FBI watch list? because NRA and america. fuck yea

To be fair there are people saying this has nothing to do with Islam which feels a bit disingenuous at best

It's both a garden-variety hate crime and an Islamic issue, because their religion deems homosexuality evil. Or at least that's my understanding.

Yep. I have queer Muslim friends and am baffled by how they reconcile that with what is in the texts. This isn't some vaguely-worded, archaic Leviticus shit; this is clearly and repeatedly outlined in the Quran.

[Strat]

Saleem Haddad
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My heart goes out to the victims of the homophobic attack in Orlando. So here is a photo of three Arab men in drag. Because fuck homophobia and fuck Islamophobia, and fuck the hypocrites who use one to justify the other. You all have blood on your hands.

And if this photo offends you, you have blood on your hands too.

Photo by Eman A

[BurtReynolds]

The commonality here with similar attacks that happened in France and elsewhere is not gun laws, its ISIS related terrorism. Sullen white kids in America with its lax gun laws can't manage this kinda death toll. It is the primary issue, and just because you think gun laws are the easiest fix (it probably would help, though it would also have its own consequences), doesn't make it about that.

[Jorge]

The FBI is now saying the dude had in the past claimed allegiance with Hezbollah and with al-Nusra, which kind of complicates the whole ISIS angle

[Strat]

and he apparently attempted to purchase military grade body armor. If there were stronger background checks, if the fact he was registered as suspected terrorist with the FBI, would have been brought up in a quick check....do you think this could have set of a real big fucking red flag fro the store owner to contact authorities? Could have been prevented.

[dimejinky99]

One of the heads of the US gun lobby was on Irish radio today and it got heated. He did say that if the government ever 'came for people's guns, there'd be a civil war the likes of which America is not prepared for'. Before slamming down the phone on the host.

Yeah. No. I think they are prepared. 300 million firearms in the US. I think you're covered.

[LoathedVermin72]

At this point, I don't expect any kind of gun law reform to happen. At least not in the near future. These events have happened over and over again and nothing has been done. It's not going to change now. It's not possible to throw any more outrage at the situation than we already have.

[Strat]

I think Sarah palin just blamed obama for this due to him bringing in syrian refugees. Lol.

[E.H. Ruddock]

As a firearm owner, it really pisses me off when other gun owners think that changing the gun laws means "they're coming for our guns". So fucking extreme.

[a rabbit & a fox]

It's obvious that we need to ban assault rifles. Most of the hillbillies that say they'll bring about civil war if the government tries to take their guns are all talk and cowards to the core so I say we just go freaking take them.

[Strat]

If the gov't wants to wipe us out they could drop fucking nukes on its own population. Assault rifles ain't going to do shit. So do we propose that your average backwoods billy bob should be able to construct nukes? So dumb.

All of it. So dumb.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[a rabbit & a fox]

well, if they dropped nukes on the rednecks they would destroy valuable farm land, so I don't think that's going to happen. HA

[dimejinky99]

At this point, I don't expect any kind of gun law reform to happen. At least not in the near future. These events have happened over and over again and nothing has been done. It's not going to change now. It's not possible to throw any more outrage at the situation than we already have.

How many little kids died at sandy hook?


Gun control didn't happen after that? It never ever will.

[dimejinky99]

It's obvious that we need to ban assault rifles. Most of the hillbillies that say they'll bring about civil war if the government tries to take their guns are all talk and cowards to the core so I say we just go freaking take them.

Waco! Do it.

[stip]

i would love to see if there are any generational demographic divides on issues like gun control. there are urban/rural divides, but the US political system disproportionatley empowers rural areas, which is not likely to ever change

[Birds in Hell]

It's not just ISIL. Central Florida this past April...

And now in Sydney:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/na ... 6c4e806bd6

Orlando shooting: gay death cleric Farrokh Sekaleshfar preaching in Sydney



An Islamic cleric who has sparked outrage by saying death is a compassionate sentence for homosexuality and we should “get rid of them now” is in Australia lecturing at a Muslim centre.

British-born Farrokh Sekaleshfar arrived last Tuesday as a guest of the Imam Husain Islamic Centre in Earlwood, in inner-western Sydney. He is acting as a guest speaker for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

At a lecture at the University of Michigan in 2013, when asked about homosexuality he said: “Death is the sentence. There’s nothing to be embarrassed about this. Death is the sentence. We have to have that compassion for people. With homosexuals, it’s the same. Out of compassion, let’s get rid of them now.”

A video of that speech surfaced in March when Sheik Sekaleshfar spoke at the Husseini Islamic Center outside Orlando on “How to deal with the phenomenon of homosexuality”.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

As a firearm owner, it really pisses me off when other gun owners think that changing the gun laws means "they're coming for our guns". So fucking extreme.

Most of the "extreme" gun-control people that I have personally encountered are either creationists (ie. they will believe anything, no matter how ridiculous, as long as it has "jesus" attached to it somehow)...or they are very obviously mentally ill...sometimes both. It's like trying to rationalise and deal with the Manson family, except there are 10 million of them. It is mass brainwashing on an unfathomable level. How can you fight that?

[a rabbit & a fox]

As a firearm owner, it really pisses me off when other gun owners think that changing the gun laws means "they're coming for our guns". So fucking extreme.

Most of the "extreme" gun-control people that I have personally encountered are either creationists (ie. they will believe anything, no matter how ridiculous, as long as it has "jesus" attached to it somehow)...or they are very obviously mentally ill...sometimes both. It's like trying to rationalise and deal with the Manson family, except there are 10 million of them. It is mass brainwashing on an unfathomable level. How can you fight that?

Bigger guns???

[BurtReynolds]

If the first thing you thought was to be angry at the NRA and not radical Islamists, then you suffer from some epically entrenched programming. Talk about brainwashing.