Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Tuesday
Over the weekend a heavily armed man entered a nightclub and murdered 49 people. It was a popular LGBTQ club on a Latin themed night. Many of the victims were latino/a/hispanic.
The gunman, New York born Omar Mateen is of Afghan origin and has a history of violent and erratic behavior. Mateen claimed affiliation with both Shiite and Sunni terror groups. A fact that confuses many experts. Hezbollah and ISIS (oh god, I'm going to end up on a list for even typing this) don't tend to partner up.
And now there is speculation that he was a closeted homosexual and his violence stemmed from an internal conflict, not some international cabal.
There is so much to consider here. The seemingly open access to guns. The strange override of our actual immediate safety in favor of the right to own guns? Fear of the other whipped up by a new nationalism emerging in our country. And then there's the prism from which I view all of it as a cis, white, male.
Fuck man. This is some fucked up bullshit.
The gunman, New York born Omar Mateen is of Afghan origin and has a history of violent and erratic behavior. Mateen claimed affiliation with both Shiite and Sunni terror groups. A fact that confuses many experts. Hezbollah and ISIS (oh god, I'm going to end up on a list for even typing this) don't tend to partner up.
And now there is speculation that he was a closeted homosexual and his violence stemmed from an internal conflict, not some international cabal.
There is so much to consider here. The seemingly open access to guns. The strange override of our actual immediate safety in favor of the right to own guns? Fear of the other whipped up by a new nationalism emerging in our country. And then there's the prism from which I view all of it as a cis, white, male.
Fuck man. This is some fucked up bullshit.
# posted by joel @ 10:07 AM 
