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In reply to the discussion: This is freedom. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Freedom as a principle and an ideal is a good thing.
Due to the efforts of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sheldon Adelson, cancer grannies in Florida are still being dragged off to prison for growing medical marijuana. Florida isn't "free" in that regard.
It might be worth noting that the killer didn't walk into the nightclub and kill all those people with a bong.
Yes, easy access to high-powered weaponry; a very select sort of "freedom"- was a factor here. As was hatred and belief that there is a giant invisble man in the sky whose apparent primary concern in 14 trillion light-years of Universe, is who is having sex with whom on this small planet in a nondescript spiral arm of the milky way galaxy.
Guns were the hardware, but let's be honest and acknowledge that Islamic Fundamentalism- not "Freedom"- was the software, driving this monstrous act.