Posted on Jun 14, 2016
Ex-classmate says Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay
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I had a debate with friends on the Florida shooting yesterday and they all swore that the man was all kinds of wrong, and he shot the place up being it was a "soft target". I mentioned to them what is he was gay and had been outed? For some that is harsh, made worse by a family who wouldn't be open to it. I feel once again, folks look at the surface, and believe what is said on tv It's convenient, easy, and you don't have to think out the box or do some research on your own. His being a homosexual doesn't bother me one bit. What does bother me is an air of intolerance towards the LGBT, or the gay community in general. Maybe his being "free" in that club, knowing that no one outside of it would ever know, but finding out it DID, was possibly what took him over the edge. I'm NOT justifying what was done, but there were things that weren't adding up, and as old and ignorant at times I am, if I can see it, why wasn't the thought investigated being there are FAR smarter folks at the FBI than me. BTW Donald, did you predict this too?
Ex-classmate says Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was gay
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SSG Warren Swan I saw this on CBS news and it is quite shocking, on his motives and the social media he portrayed himself on. Good read and share.
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SSG Warren Swan your mind set appears to be spot on like some of us who've managed to sift through the Media, "Bullshit" as usual. I have a member in my family who is also "Bipolar" and what she goes through when she decides that she doesn't need to take her medication as prescribed. It's like instant rage with mood swings of a split personality etc. Now as more information is brought out, were seeing that the current wife of this nut job knew of his outbursts of rage and his intentions prior to the incident being carried out? She even drove the guy there on that day, so I see this as being guilty by association with the carrying out of this chaos. We could go on and on with this and the fact will always remain that lives were lost needlessly as a result, just like with the Orange county Ca shootings by a husband and his spouse. Now once again the push is on to ban assault weapons, It's not the weapon that killed these unfortunate lives, it was the deranged individual behind the weapon.
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SSG Warren Swan
Senior, I'm trying to take the middle ground. I try hard to even when I KNOW that it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, so it HAS to be a duck. I'm proud as hell of the city of Orlando for coming together and telling others who might think of doing this, "you cannot break us". And that's how more Americans should feel. Not because we have weapons, but because we believe. Good, bad, or indifferent, there's no place I'd want to hang my hat but here. Now in a few more hours, lamestream media will run this into the ground, and again attempt to divide us. Some will fall for it, others will see it for what it is, and ignore them.
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There is an old Shakespearian adage that I keep in the back of my mind in all things. "I think thou doth protest to much" and some advice I heard as a child "That which we hate in others is what we hate in our selves."
This man was .... well I don't have a word to describe him. If he was gay and a devout Muslim that's a bad combination. Maybe we should look at the religion that does not believe in tolerance. A religion that screwed up his mind so bad he decided his only salvation was mass murder. On the bright side he is dead so no court can let him off.
This man was .... well I don't have a word to describe him. If he was gay and a devout Muslim that's a bad combination. Maybe we should look at the religion that does not believe in tolerance. A religion that screwed up his mind so bad he decided his only salvation was mass murder. On the bright side he is dead so no court can let him off.
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SSG Warren Swan
That's a slippery slope. The Bible has been used to justify almost every ill that has happened in this nation. It's used today to vilify the LGBT. So what religion is "safe"? 150 years ago, it was used to justify slavery. It was used to justify segregation. Is one form of discrimination better than the other? Is one "holy book" better than the other?
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