Yeah, what do gays think of Donald Trump’s proposal now?
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Breaking news: the murderer Omar Mateen is reported to have called 911 to pledge his allegiance to ISIS and gave his full name before he started his rampage in the Pulse nightclub.
Omar Mateen is reported to have been employed under a security guard. Thus he would be permitted to posses firearms that would be denied to the rest of the populace even under a very restrictive regimes such as exists in Canada.
The Obama Administration will no doubt push for more gun laws, such as the Universal Background Check canard they have been promoting thus far. The trouble is the government is unwilling and unable to prosecute violators of the current laws in effect.
For example in 2010 there were 14,409,616 NICS background checks conducted on sales of guns by federally licensed firearms dealers (FFL) across the USA. 76,000 of those applicants for gun purchase were denied. 90 percent of those denials were deemed not worthy of further investigation by the government. 62 of these denials were referred for prosecution, with most of these being declined or dismissed by the court. Finally a total of only 13 guilty pleas came out of the original 76,000 denials (statistics courtesy of America Handgunner Magazine “By the Numbers” column, July/August 2016 issue.
As it stands now the FBI run National Instant Check system (NICS) that must give its approval for all long gun sales, and for handgun sales in states which did not have their own state handgun background check system prior to the establishment of the NICS, is unable to handle the traffic it gets daily and respond promptly to requests for back ground checks on dealer sales (The Obama Administration has been unwilling to hire additional personnel to work in the NICS). Consequently there is no reason to believe the NICS would be able to track all the private sales throughout the country as well, as it would have to do for a so-called universal background check regime. As it is the background check system yields few convictions of criminals attempting to illegally buy guns from a dealer. Keep in mind that people selling guns to criminals generally know full well they are selling to criminals and would not conduct background checks in any event. So a universal system would just hassle law abiding citizens and ultimately do nothing so much as constitute a back door gun registration system, as the expanded system would invariably keep computer records of very transaction reported to it even if it could not responded promptly and efficiently as intended. The lesson of the history of the world is that gun registration always leads to gun confiscation.
Update: The attacker has been identified as Omar Mateen, a US-born citizen whose parents came to the US from Afghanistan. The Daily Beast:
Omar Mateen of Port Saint Luice, Florida has been identified as the gunman who killed 20 people at a Orlando nightclub, CBS News, the Washington Post, and NBC News report, citing law enforcement officials. Mateen is a U.S. citizen; his parents are from Afghanistan, CBS News reports. FBI Agent Ron Hopper told reporters Mateen may have leanings towards Islamic extremism.Mateen was armed with an assault rifle, a handgun, and what was feared to be an improvised explosive device. Mateen entered Pulse club around 2 a.m. Sunday morning and began shooting. After most of the 320 people there escaped, Mateen took hostages from a group that was hiding in a bathroom. Shortly before 6 a.m., a SWAT unit breached the club and engaged Mateen in what's being called a protracted gun battle. Mateen was killed.
Update: Latest report is that there are 50 dead. Horrific.
If the early indications of Islamic terror being the motivation for a mass slaughter of homosexuals prove to be true, jihad should become a top concern of the LGBT political movement. The evidence is quickly mounting that Islamic terror was at the root of shooting 20 dead (as far as is currently known) and wounding 42 others, as well as taking hostages. The UK Daily Mail reports:
A suspected Islamic extremist wielding an assault rifle and a handgun has killed about 20 people after taking party-goers hostage inside a gay nightclub in Orlando.The gunman was carrying a suspicious device, possibly a suicide vest, when he opened fire inside Pulse in the early hours of this morning.Orlando Police Chief John Mina said authorities have not determined the exact number of people killed, but that 'approximately 20' have died. Another 42 people were taken to hospital.An FBI spokesman said the mass shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism. He explained authorities are looking into whether this was an act of domestic or international terror, and if the shooter was a lone wolf.Police said the gunman was believed to be in his 20s was not a local man, and the FBI believe he may have 'leanings to radical Islamic terrorism'.
The FBI is not the lead agency, and would not give any indication at all of an Islamic terror connection without evidence. We do not know what, if any, organization was connected to the indicent, but considerable thought and planning were apparently involved.
The big question for me is how might this affect the political stance of the homosexual movement, which has predominantly supported Democrats, the party that refuses to speak the words “radical Islam” in connection to terror. I have spoken to homosexuals about why they seem indifferent to the clear threat Islamic hostility presents to them, and the answer usually is that they are focused on their own political struggle at home, in which scripturally believing Christians are seen as the opponents.
But jihad is a global movement, and now it seems to have struck at home.
It is too early to draw any conclusions, but I have a lot of questions.
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