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pnwmom

(108,951 posts)
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 12:00 PM Jun 2016

ABC news: Orlando shooter was licensed for guns (contradicting the position [View all]

of the NRA that only law-abiding people will follow license or registration laws.)

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/orlando-nightclub-shooting-emergency-services-respond-reports-gunman-n590446

Mateen had active security officer and firearm licenses, according to Florida records, and his family said he worked in security. Marriage records show he was married in Port St. Lucie in 2009, and a relative said he had a 3-year-old son.

The incident is being investigated as an act of terrorism, officials said.

Mir Seddique, Mateen's father told NBC News, "this has nothing to do with religion." Seddique said his son got angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami a couple of months ago and thinks that may be related to the shooting.

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Was this a concealed-carry permit? Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #1
I don't know. Did he conceal carry? n/t pnwmom Jun 2016 #2
Mateen's father told NBC News, "this has nothing to do with religion." Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #3
So does Chrisitianity, on its radical fringes uponit7771 Jun 2016 #4
I'm not arguing that it doesn't. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #6
Then why is Islam being extrapolated from the homogenous data? tia uponit7771 Jun 2016 #7
Because ISIS thinks it is at war with the US. ISIS has called for an uptick in killing this month. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #8
ISIS wasn't the subject of the last line in your post Islam was. uponit7771 Jun 2016 #9
ISIS is a militant wing of Islam, by their own definition. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #11
So is the militant anti choice murderers in America, seems like a one way application of who hates.. uponit7771 Jun 2016 #12
There is no reason to stick our fingers in our ear and act like its not religious influence Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #14
Islam does not influence people to commit mass murder, I reject that notion hands down uponit7771 Jun 2016 #15
Then you aren't being realistic. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #16
Again, you're extrapolating a religion in verbiage ... ANY radical sect of any religion or idealolog uponit7771 Jun 2016 #18
And if they based it on the teaching of said religion, then the relgion is influicing them Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #19
no uponit7771 Jun 2016 #20
Good talk. Joe the Revelator Jun 2016 #21
False. Kang Colby Jun 2016 #5
That isn't what this says: pnwmom Jun 2016 #10
Incorrect. Kang Colby Jun 2016 #17
Florida is also a death penalty state - that didn't seem to stop this either. tenderfoot Jun 2016 #13
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