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Mass shooting in Orlando Nightclub

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Gatling wrote: »
    Absolutely he will be running his hands in glee blaming this on Obama and Clinton

    Well Obama still does not accept that there is such a problem as 'radical islamics'

    So for failing to acknowledge a problem there has to be an amount of accountability


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    Superhorse wrote: »
    Have to say I'm baffled by the response on Sky News to this terrorist attack. They usually run with these stories pretty well but they have spent the whole day talking about the Queen's birthday mostly ignoring this. The coverage on RT has been the most up to date from what ive been watching.

    Someone in Sky must think Orlando is in the Middle East.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Superhorse wrote: »
    Have to say I'm baffled by the response on Sky News to this terrorist attack.

    It's a mass shooting bar the high casualties figures that's all it is a near weekly occurance in america .
    Till the authorities call it a terrorist attack it's just another senseless mass shooting


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,280 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    luftmensch wrote: »
    Someone said this is the biggest attack on US soil since 9/11.

    I am really not comfortable with there being some sort of league table for attacks and mass shootings. Its said again and again that the media need to stop glorifying the killer(s), their aims and their effectiveness. It just encourages the next attacker that he will get the star treatment if he kills enough people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Autonomous Cowherd


    luftmensch wrote: »
    Someone said this is the biggest attack on US soil since 9/11. Given their military response to that, and the fruitcakes they have for presidential candidates, some sort of increased involvement to tackle ISIS could be likely.

    It certainly seems to be the biggest mass murder since 9/11 but it cannot be called an ''attack on US soil'' since it was committed by a US citizen. Well, in my understanding. So, even though he has Afghani heritage, he was born in US and therefore which country could be attacked as revenge? Not to mention US is already up to its oxters in all these radical Islamic countries.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    moloner4 wrote: »
    Oh dear god no, 50 dead. 53 injured, I unfortatently think this number will rise.

    If it's true about the claims he had sympathy for Islamic State could war be possible?

    Na, Daesh are defeated already. They have no more money, no more supplies, and no more recruits. A few sleeper cells here and there and the odd lone wolf sympathiser as this would appear to be, but there should be no war as there is no one to have a war with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    my friend wrote: »
    Well Obama still does not accept that there is such a problem as 'radical islamics'

    So for failing to acknowledge a problem there has to be an amount of accountability

    I'm not an Obama fan but this such a weird position. If he called them radical islamists before airstriking them that would somehow help matters? How does that work?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    my friend wrote: »
    Well Obama still does not accept that there is such a problem as 'radical islamics'

    So for failing to acknowledge a problem there has to be an amount of accountability

    BS .

    What accountability exactly .

    It's a mass shooting you know like we've had 100s of times in america and geuss what no change in gun control.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Pickpocket wrote: »
    Clinton is a known hawk. Either candidate could 'benefit' frim this.

    This picture was taken in the situation room when Osama bin Laden was taken out, it's clear Clinton actually isn't a hawk, she's a stomach less yellow belly

    She has consistently done wrong in the Middle East, she backed the Muslim brotherhood terrorists, thankfully the Egyptian army know better than her and then her idiotic actions against Assad have resulted in 10s of thousands unnecessary deaths, she aided ISIS with her misstep in Syria

    So, Clinton hasn't the stomach for the tough calls and when it is her call she gets it wrong in massive ways resulting in carnage and death


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Pickpocket wrote: »
    Someone in Sky must think Orlando is in the Middle East.

    Yeah, it's a party on Sky news.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    wow, originally 7-20 injured and no fatalities now over 50 dead and as many injured


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    my friend wrote: »
    This picture was taken in the situation room when Osama bin Laden was taken out, it's clear Clinton actually isn't a hawk, she's a stomach less yellow belly

    She has consistently done wrong in the Middle East, she backed the Muslim brotherhood terrorists, thankfully the Egyptian army know better than her and then her idiotic actions against Assad have resulted in 10s of thousands unnecessary deaths, she aided ISIS with her misstep in Syria

    So, Clinton hasn't the stomach for the tough calls and when it is her call she gets it wrong in massive ways resulting in carnage and death

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

    Here's a vid of her cackling about killing Ghadaffi if for some bizarre reason that makes you feel better about her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,111 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Orlando shooter's father says son NOT motivated by religion but was “angry when he saw 2 men kissing in Miami.' (via @NBCNews)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    I sincerely doubt that he will be gleeful at the death of 50 citizens.

    This is trump the racist ,sexist, misogynist idiot who's been whipping up mass hysteria the last few months ,
    This will be used mass effect on his campaign


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    If 30 are critical the death toll could be higher. I commented to my adult daughter'' is this USA's Bataclan?'' But she pointed out - wisely- that a lone gun-man with an ideology is quite different from a group targeting a society.

    Its a lone man with the same ideology targeting the freedom of western society, French, American. Same to them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    50 dead and counting. Another beautiful day brought to by the religion of peace. Great way to mark the holy month of ramadan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    50 dead and counting. Another beautiful day brought to by the religion of peace. Great way to market the holy month of ramadan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Gatling wrote: »
    This is trump the racism ,sexist, misogynist idiot who's been whipping up mass hysteria the last few months ,
    This will be used mass effect on his campaign

    And the american public will respond to it. One of the most violent acts of terrorism on US soil since 9/11 also being perpetrated by a muslim will not go down well with people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,037 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Sky News getting their priorities right.

    Shameful


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    RasTa wrote: »
    Orlando shooter's father says son NOT motivated by religion but was “angry when he saw 2 men kissing in Miami.' (via @NBCNews)
    Ah, so he just craved the wavin and couldn't handle it and wigged out.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 466 ✭✭vg88


    RasTa wrote: »
    Orlando shooter's father says son NOT motivated by religion but was “angry when he saw 2 men kissing in Miami.' (via @NBCNews)

    Seeing that islam is the most homophobic hateful thinking, i say it probably had something to do with it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Superhorse


    Sky News getting their priorities right.

    Shameful

    They've been at it all day. Saturation Royal coverage. Maybe they have a problem with gay people not sure :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    moloner4 wrote: »
    Seeing that islam is the most homophobic hateful thinking, i say it probably had something to do with it

    You'll find plenty of 'churches' wth comparable philosophies in that neck of the woods.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Still saying on CNN that it is believed it is linked to radical Islam.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    RasTa wrote: »
    Orlando shooter's father says son NOT motivated by religion but was “angry when he saw 2 men kissing in Miami.' (via @NBCNews)

    And it was Islamic culture and religion that taught him those men kissing should die. I don't know why the father said that, as if it changes anything or makes it in any way more stomachable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    Superhorse wrote: »
    Have to say I'm baffled by the response on Sky News to this terrorist attack. They usually run with these stories pretty well but they have spent the whole day talking about the Queen's birthday mostly ignoring this. The coverage on RT has been the most up to date from what ive been watching.
    Of course they are not going to give it the air time it deserves. It goes against the narrative that Islam is the religion of peace and are naturally trying to stop a leave vote in the upcoming referendum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    I sincerely doubt that he will be gleeful at the death of 50 citizens.

    I don't like Trump, but the idea that I have read here and twitter that Trump a proud American is thinking

    " Yessssssssssssss a Muslim just killed 50 Americans, this is great news for my campaign"

    Is really grim.

    The anger should be directed at the gunman and how to deal with radical Islam which whether we like it or not is a serious issue everywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    You'll find plenty of 'churches' wth comparable philosophies in that neck of the woods.

    Yep but none of those churches in USA as yet have any members that have gone into any gay bars and shot 100 gay people


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭The Highwayman


    Gatling wrote: »
    I sincerely doubt that he will be gleeful at the death of 50 citizens.

    This is trump the racist ,sexist, misogynist idiot who's been whipping up mass hysteria the last few months ,
    This will be used mass effect on his campaign
    Mass hysteria? You obviously haven't been paying attention. Have you seen the crazy behavior of the SJW's and the left in general in the American elections?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    Rjd2 wrote: »

    The anger should be directed at the gunman and how to deal with radical Islam which whether we like it or not is a serious issue everywhere.

    The only way to deal with radical islam is by burning them. It's the only language they understand. There would be collateral damage but every innocent they kill is collateral damage too. Take their oil, and use it to burn them.


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