50!

[hrmjustin]

[Maven]

1. OMG.

[PeaceNikki]

2. holy shit.

[LisaM]

3. Ugh.

No words.

[boston bean]

4. holy shit!

[melman]

5. Fuck

Unbelievable.

[Tom_Foolery]

6. ...

[Cooley Hurd]

7. 50?

MY God, please don't tell me they've revised the count from the Pulse massacre???

[melman]

8. They have

[Cooley Hurd]

10. OMFG!!!!

[hrmjustin]

9. Yes. 50 dead and 53 wounded.

[Cooley Hurd]

14. The fucking horror of this!!!

[hrmjustin]

19. Yes thank you.

[glowing]

15. Yes, there are so many bodies that they haven't removed them all yet or identified all the victims.

AND I honestly cannot believe that it was one gunman...

[Marrah_G]

71. One person with and assault rifle with a large capacity magazine

I can easily see this being one person in a packed space.

[getagrip_already]

75. Not one magazine..... several

Think of the logistics. If every person was shot just once with no misses, that's 103 bullets. More likely he fired over 300 rounds.

He had to change clips over and over.

That was one sick fuck.

[JCMach1]

11. Mayor is declaring an emergency to deal with the event...

[GreenEyedLefty]

12. Heartbreaking.

[glowing]

13. You should say 50 dead, 53 injured...

I can't believe this is the action of one gunman acting alone. How did one person attack 103 people in this manner? ARE they really sure it was the action of a lone gunman?

[boston bean]

18. Doesn't take much with the cartridges holding that many bullets to be fired quickly.

[glowing]

22. A lone gunman, I would think, could be over run by a group of people from behind or what not...

Maybe they don't want panic, but why declare state of emergency if the lone gunman is dead?

[mercuryblues]

49. I can imagine

the vast amount of resources needed to handle the aftermath of something like this. It will leave many agencies short handed. SoE can open up federal resources to help with this.

[elljay]

53. Please don't assume

When you are not in a situation like this yourself, you cannot predict how you would act. Dark, crowded club, loud music and everyone dancing and drinking, then suddenly bullets flying, people screaming and falling. Not very easy to even see what is happening, let alone to plot charging at the shooter. This could have been one well-armed single shooter, but the police are being prudent by declaring a state of emergency until they have had a chance to do some investigation.

[catbyte]

66. Dark place, people have been drinking, the element of surprise/shock. Not so easy to

subdue the perp. He waited until almost closing time when people were drunk and tired. Just a horrific thing.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. The wonders of large capacity magazines that are necessary to protect our freedumbs.

[glowing]

27. 103 people? Even in the Aurora movie theater shooting with a large clip, he didn't kill that many..

AND with only one, and a large group of people, would he not have been over run from behind. I think there were probably more than 1 person acting in this case. I guess its an active investigation, but why state of emergency if the lone gunman is dead?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

29. It was a crowded small club. Also, people were apparently trapped in the bathroom.

There is a video from outside posted on liveleak. You can hear the rapid fire.

I won't link to that site.

[PoliticAverse]

69. The Aurora movie theater shooter decided to use a high capacity drum magazine which jammed

as they are known to do:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/22/us/colorado-shooting-investigation/index.html

[malaise]

48. That and a question

Were any shot by the police in the shoot out??

[Mojorabbit]

77. He had a security guard license so perhaps had some training in shooting. nt

[Odin2005]

91. Your politicizing this tragedy is disgusting.

Authoritarians never let a good tragedy go to waste to scare people into giving up their rights.

[mythology]

95. And what of the right to live for the 50 people killed?

Apparently they don't matter, or at least don't matter than some minor restriction that wouldn't actually bar anybody from owning a gun.

[Darb]

99. There's blood on your hands, pal.

Own it.

[Starry Messenger]

101. Jesus, man. Try a little sensitivity.

[BlueMTexpat]

103. No one has the right to walk into a space and

murder people with an assault weapon. Or by any other means. Period.

NO. ONE.

If that makes me an authoritarian, then I proudly own to being one.

[Cassiopeia]

109. It's time to take those rights.

We have so many laws to protect us, fireworks, pot, liquids on a plane.... I could go on endlessly.

We are not responsible enough to be allowed to own any firearm for any purpose any longer. It's time to protect the public from a few bad apples. I'm sorry everyone has to lose their toys to make that happen.

[Tumbulu]

135. I agree absolutely.

I am not sorry that anyone will lose a gun, Iw ant them all gone. No matter how long it takes.

[Saviolo]

121. LGBT people's entire lives are politicized.

The right wing has politicized trans people going to bathrooms.
The right wing has politicized gay people having housing and being fired from their jobs.
The right wing has politicized gay people getting married.
The right wing has politicized gay people being able to serve, fight, and die for their country.

Don't you dare tell us we can't politicized our deaths if the right wing is going to politicize everything else about LGBT people.

[heaven05]

82. AT THE SOUND OF GUNFIRE

and the ensuing chaos, MOST people start runnung AWAY from the perceived shooter. This sick POS, now dead, had free reign with large capacity magazines at his disposal. I can understand why the death/injured toll is so large. They are still not sure of the final toll is my understanding.

[BootinUp]

17. Geebus.

Sorrow for the victims and their families.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Link with updated total

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/06/12/orlando-nightclub-shooting-about-20-dead-in-domestic-terror-incident-at-gay-club/

[octoberlib]

23. This makes me sick and

makes my hearthurt at the same time.

[sufrommich]

25. Mind boggling. nt

[Botany]

26. I am crying

n/t

[Gomez163]

28. 50 is a new record for mass shootings here in the US

[Trust Buster]

30. Assault rifles are offensive weapons and not defensive weapons. A "good" guy with a gun

doesn't stand a chance.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. I have a Pulse. Je suis Charlie. Boston Strong. Remain Calm and Carry On. . . nt

[Blue_Tires]

32. Jesus Fucking Christ....

[yuiyoshida]

33. terrorism

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/12/omar-mateen-id-d-as-orlando-killer.html?via=FB_Page&source=TDB

[stonecutter357]

34. .

[greatauntoftriplets]

35. ...

[mcar]

36. This is horrific

My son is in college in Orlando. We live 70 miles away.

[BootinUp]

37. Worst mass shooting in US history. NBC reports.

[MoonRiver]

38. Dear God

[BooScout]

39. ...

[Gothmog]

40. OMG

I am in tears.

[Tribalceltic]

41. I am very frightened

I live 2 hours from there. I feel trapped in a horrible place.

[NutmegYankee]

42. ...

[DCBob]

43. Unbelievable.

[demmiblue]

44. Horrific.

[sheshe2]

45. Crying

[Johnny2X2X]

46. Awful

This apparently was a hate crime as this guy made some comments about gays kissing in public in front of his son. Just sickening.

And to people saying the crowd should have overpowered a single shooter. You've never been shot at, these people were terrified and it was total chaos. They likely had no idea where the shots were coming from. People had to be panicking and hiding.

[Chemisse]

47. Omg. What a horrible, senseless tragedy.

[OKNancy]

50. another nice graphic

[mikeargo]

51. ...

[Laf.La.Dem.]

52. Sad Sad Sad

[Kimberly1990219]

54. PLEASE Obama

You don't have to worry about re-election! Put your foot down! Civilians should not have ASSAULT RIFLES, or automatic weapons PERIOD! DO SOMETHING!

[MADem]

134. PLEASE, SUPREME COURT...enough of this BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nt

[DesertRat]

55. no words

[Lucinda]

56. ...

[senz]

57. Horrible.

[aikoaiko]

58. Its horrible.

[Haveadream]

59. .

[alarimer]

60. Horrific.

No words.

[Autumn]

61. Heartbreaking.

[SusanCalvin]

62. OMG. No . No. No.

[LittleGirl]

63. shared on fb. thanks. eom

[elljay]

64. I don't know if TMZ is a reliable source

but they are reporting that the murderer was a possibly radicalized Muslim who became outraged at seeing two men kissing. So, looking like at a minimum like an anti-gay hate crime, the religious component tbd.

http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/06/12/terrorist-omar-mateen-gay-nightclub-murder/

[Agnosticsherbet]

65. ...

[William769]

67. ...

[Crash2Parties]

113. As an LGBT person in a queer family...

I appreciate the sentiment. However, it was "prayer" that inspired the murderer in the first place.

Please, right now that sort of subtle proselytizing is not appreciated by all. Especially those of us who have been continuously attacked by organized, political, "prayerful" religious extremists over the last few years, but especially since the GOP's anti-trans/anti-LGBT resolution in January.

[William769]

118. I happen to be part of the LGBT community.

I also happen to be a person of faith as do so many others in the LGBT community.

I don't go after the non faithful and I do not appreciate you going after the faithful especially in this thread.

Painting with that broad brush you have is counter productive to everything in life.

Peace.

[WatchWhatISay]

132. Perfect response William

I'm sure it was easy to compose because it was heartfelt.

And I am agnostic.

[sheshe2]

146. Love

[sheshe2]

147. I am an ally.

I stopped praying a very long time ago. Various reasons.

Do not condensed to those that believe. Not all with religious beliefs are bad. Do not judge William. You do not know him. You do not know him yet attack him. Wow!

[silverweb]

68. ...

[Loki]

70. None of us are safe from this hatred.

God help us.

[AwakeAtLast]

72. ..................................................

[mopinko]

73. .

[Bluenorthwest]

74. There are no words. 50.

nt

[Stuart G]

76. k and r....nt

[Spazito]

78. I have no words...

[smirkymonkey]

79. So awful.

[enid602]

80. Orlando

The population of Orlando is 238,000. Almost everyone must be related to, know or be somehow connected with one of the dead or hurt.

[JennyMominFL]

115. Sort of

The population is much higher. the "City of Orlando" which is where that number comes from, only contains the small section of downtown. Most live in unincorporated Orlando. I have an Orlando address, however, since I live in unincorporated orlando, I don't get counted in that total. The orlando metro is over 2 million, and the population of urban Orlando is 1.1 million. There are 61,000 alone in my unincorporated zipcode. We are all heartbroken.

[OriginalGeek]

145. ^^That

And Welcome to DU JennyMominFL. Sorry it's during this terrible time.


(I've lived in unincorporated Orange county for 30+ years. My wife has for close to 60)


so yeah, there's a lot of Orlandoans. I'm just glad that my friends weren't there that night.

[cyberswede]

81. my god.

[treestar]

83. ...

[avaistheone1]

84. Why?

[UtahLib]

85. No words, just tears and love and sorrow for the families.

[wildeyed]

86. My heart is breaking.

I don't even know how to ask "why?" anymore because I have asked that question so many times. Why do we allow this gun violence to continue? WHY?

[MFM008]

87. Tears just won't stop

[lunatica]

88. My heart breaks again

[ailsagirl]

89. I feel sick-- no words n/t

[Odin2005]

90. ...

[calimary]

92. No words.

[Paper Roses]

93. Tears....We are what we are, where does this hate come from?

I am sick reading about this, as is everyone else except those with hate in their hearts and guns in their hands.

[mountain grammy]

94. Running out of tears...

so sad for everyone. No end to the madness.

[Jemmons]

96. There is nothing random about this

Squeeze people. Pour hate all over. Ad some guns. Sqeeze everybody some more. Talk the hate up. Ad some more guns. Ad some bigger guns. Now ad some more hate. Then sqeeze people some more. Wait for the blood to flow.

[-none]

127. ^^^This^^^

I have plenty of words, but would most likely be attacked for posting them. But you have it exactly correct.
And this election is a setup to make things even worse in the future than than they are now.

But I will say...

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

We kill people with impunity in other countries, then wonder why it is happening more frequently here too? Really? Really now? Why the disconnect with so many?

[passiveporcupine]

97. So devastating. I'm so sorry to our LGBT community

and everyone who loves them.

[TexasBushwhacker]

98. Someone make it stop!

[shenmue]

100. People went out to have fun. And then this.

[Starry Messenger]

102. .

[lunamagica]

104. ...

[brer cat]

105. Heartbeaking!

[PatrickforO]

106. When something like this happens, all of us die a little inside.

I'm so very, very sorry for all the families of all the dead and the survivors in hospital fighting for their lives. The pain, well, my wife and I both shed quite a few tears this morning because of this horror.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

107. [*]

[Dalziel3979]

108. Just another record to be broken at this point.

[liberalla]

110. Just horrific...

No words...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

111. oh no omg

.... oh no....

[Fla Dem]

112. 50 Too Many

[Aerows]

114. Absolutely heartbreaking. n/t

[allan01]

116. !!!! (candle)

i am christian, i am biting my tounge to not say nasty mean or hateful things on my side but to treat it with love . please note to some people on this board, when we offer prayors to,,,, we are offering them to the family units that who were left behind. I AM SO SICK OF GUNNS GUNS GUNS GUNS . as someone said SCREW THE NRA. i just walked away f rom a right wing friend of mine on skype so i wouldnt say bad things .

[mainstreetonce]

117. Love to all LGBT posters

So sorry for this horror.

[montana_hazeleyes]

119. Just learned of this horror! So sorry. stunned.

[TexasTowelie]

120. .

[Bucky]

122. over 50 now.

I've seen one source say 53. A poster on DU is saying 59 now.

Too many.

[IrishEyes]

123. I just heard the news.

I can't believe it. I took the day off from the news and social media. Another horrible senseless tragedy.

[Solly Mack]

124. ...

[Cha]

125. ..

[Beacool]

126. So sad........

[femmocrat]

128. With great sadness....

[yallerdawg]

129. ...

[susanr516]

130. So sad

[LiberalLovinLug]

131. horrible so sad

[MADem]

133. Heart ache. nt

[Hekate]

136. My friend with the transgender son called me to share her heartbreak...

He's in Wisconsin, but this hits close to home.

.

[Liberal_in_LA]

137. ..

[NoMoreRepugs]

138. hate+crazy+automatic weapons=tragedy

I just dont ever see it ending....

[stage left]

139. ...

[niyad]

140. . . . .

[mimi85]

141. My heart aches and will for a long time.

When we ever stop the NRA from buying politicians?? NVM, I'm afraid I know the answer.

[Peacetrain]

142. Keeping you in our hearts

[passiveporcupine]

143. Escalators in Stockholm

[Bill USA]

144. another psycho-loser decides he's a terrorist