The shooting attack at the LGBT club in Orlando Florida leaves 50 humans dead and another 53 injured. Is our inaction to blame? Can we use this as an urgent need to move forward to concrete solutions?
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Right now my heart is broken and I’m not sure how to sort out the raw emotions I’m feeling and writing seems to be the place to start. I just keep thinking “50 more.” FIFTY more people who perished in one night. Fifty members of the human race whose lives were extinguished quickly and mercilessly.
Given the setting, I’m going to assume this was a hate crime and domestic terrorism all wrapped up into one. You know what, though? The “WHY” isn’t as important as us letting it happen.
Again and again, we rage and mourn, shake our fists at the sky and weep in our homes. Again and again, we do NOTHING. We shrug our shoulders, let the wounds scab over and step forward. We say it’s unavoidable. We blame fringe elements of our society. We point fingers and look the other way. We bury our dead and still nothing happens.
I want our political, legislative and societal systems to say “This is important enough to take action on.”
I don’t have anything new to say, and I’m not the eloquent, loquacious speaker this kind of thing deserves. I’m just some guy, sitting home, fighting back tears. How long can we keep this up? How long will we allow this to go on before we start making the changes that should have begun years ago?
However long change takes, it’s already too late for the 50 dead and the 53 still in danger. The blood is on all our hands, and it pains my soul to keep seeing such tragedy. Let’s all stand together, in unity, for the kind of change that will save lives.
While of course there are certainly many good people among the American Muslim community, it is our utter failure of the government to bring any sort of order to this willy nilly immigration issue. Our hearts bleed for the downtrodden, so much so we close our eyes to the terrors that can come in. In fact we even tacitly invite them in. You think this is the first? Or worse the last? It’s only just begun. When we can’t even say illegal aliens anymore we have a problem. When we incorporate other cultures ideas of the way of life into… Read more »
Well Mark, if the Republican Party and Corporate America would stopped supporting illegal immigration in the first place we would not be having problems.
You must be getting old. 🙂 I think Cologne answered that less than 6 months ago.
“Omar S. Mateen, the Florida resident suspected of killing 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, called 911 before the shooting and swore allegiance to Islamic State, NBC News said on Twitter.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/breakingnews/suspected-orlando-shooter-called-911-swore-allegiance-to-islamic-state-nbc/ar-AAgX1Zt?li=BBnbcA1
Inaction? Aren’t we bombing the h*ll out of them?
50 in Orlando and and 278 murdered in chicago this year. And if you want to know who these murdered are …
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016-chicago-murders/timeline?mon=6
I’m wondering if this will illicit as much hate for Muslims as the recent rape issue has for all men.
Watch and learn gentlemen.