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[angrychair]

Yet another mass murder. This time targeting the LGBTQ community.

On the right:
We have everyone from heads of state government to various Christian groups calling it's good and justice for "sins" against their God.

We have the teapublican candidate for POTUS tRump, saying this:

“If it can be proven that somebody had information about any attack, and did not give this information to authorities, they must serve prison time.”

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_575f1802e4b0e4fe51435eb2

On the left:
We have Democrats, specifically a leading spokesman for the presumptive Democratic nominee for POTUS, calling for the surveillance and limiting of gun ownership of "Islamic element" whatever that means:

Frank said the mass shooting reinforces his belief that there should be "significant surveillance" of people identified by the FBI to have radical beliefs.

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/06/former_massachusetts_rep_barne.html

The government's surveillance history is spotty at best. Why just "the Islamic element"? What about the "Christian element"? The "Jewish element"?


This fear-mongering and scapegoating on both sides is becoming disgusting and not what we, as Democrats, should be condoning or encouraging as acceptable behavior in a modern society.
Surveillance Of Muslims does nothing to end gun violence and regulate the out of control gun culture in America and how we stop another attack like this from happening again. Nothing.
This is nothing more than childish, simple-minded finger-pointing.
This type of thinking will fix nothing.