Confused sexuality meets religious zealotry. Bad results ensue. It scarcely matters which religion…
The bigger question is: will this impact the resources devoted to investigating Hillary’s emails? I hope not because they need to indict her quickly, seeing as they’re not in the business of stopping terrorists. Fucking jerks.
Shame and guilt can drive someone to do really bad things. It wouldn’t surprise me if this guy was all mixed up about what he felt, and took it out on those like him, and then blamed it all on ISIS as some kind of religious affirmation.
If he was attracted to men but didn’t want to be attracted to men, it makes sense that he would kill the object of his attraction rather than kill himself for having these feelings.
“FBI Will Look At Whether Conflicted Sexuality Played Role In Orlando Attack.”
Entire libraries could be filled with the role of sexuality in America’s gun-nut fetish.
And in a lot of its religious obsessions, too.
Interesting …
I sure know what happens when I get constricted … er,
I mean conflicted —
Yeah, I had the impression that was just a convenient scapegoat for him. I’m doing this not because I can’t figure myself out, but because of ISIS!
The killer was bipolar, couldn’t even make a coherent cover-story about being pledged to ISIL, Hezbollah and al Qaeda, (which are also at war with each other)… went to gay bar(s) for years, drinks alcohol, signed up for a gay hook-up/dating app, people that knew him when he was trying to become a cop thought he was gay, has a crazy homophobic father, and is part of a religion that is very hostile to non-heterosexuals and where in many parts of the world ruled by Quranic authority, publicly executes people for being gay.
Ah, yeah…he was a little conflicted I’d say.
He didn’t have issues. He had a subscription.
A bloody-beard. Ironic on multiple levels.
In addition to the fact that he was frequenting places where he could see gay people openly enjoying themselves in a way that just couldn’t.
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Also, he wanted to join a police department long before he showed an interest in ISIS. So let’s focus on the grave threat posed by police departments, or something.
I don’t think there’s a question whether conflicted sexuality played a role, only how much.
Suddenly this looks much less like a random terror attack and more like a targeted act of extreme hate and violence.
Hate to say it, but saw this coming. He was so conflicted. He had no support from his father. He wanted to KILL what he saw/felt in himself. Sad.
How dare the FBI consider the shooter’s long-standing, violent mental illness. The next thing you know, they will suggest that military weapons should not be available to violent mentally ill people. What an outrage to detract from the Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, Muslim, narrative.
This situation is such a volatile mix of psychosocial factors – closeted gay, professionally licensed gun owner, mental illness, domestic abuse, Sunni islam, ISIS sympathizer, immigrant parents from a war zone. The list is getting longer.
My guess is the guy’s brain did not function properly, and he dealt with sexual/religious/family/marital/ workplace conflicts with violence because that’s the way he was hardwired and that’s all he was capable of. You put an AR-15 in his hands and tragedy ensues. All the rest is icing on the bloody cake, at most.
That’s the nub of it. Give someone like this a knife, and he slashes one, maybe two people before someone hits him over the head with a beer bottle. Give him an AR-15, and he’s an army.