20 dead in Orlando shooting

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this seems like a good write-up of the events

in summary: around 2AM Sunday morning, a shooter went into the Pulse gay club in Orlando, Florida and opened fire on the crowd, and began to take hostages. a SWAT team was called in and in a shootout the shooter was killed. 20 people are dead and about 42 are injured
 
the worst part about this is the us has had two back to back gun attacks, and we're going to wake up tomorrow and find that they're going to do next to nothing in terms of gun control to avoid upsetting a few people. obama tried a while back iirc, but the situation hasn't gotten any better.

i offer all my support to the victims and their families
 
This is absolutely disgusting. My deepest condolences go out to the families of the victims. It's appalling that this sort of thing still happens.
 
ugh this is so terrible, the fact that this is a common occurrence is unacceptable.

another sad thing is that the shooter was foreign, and i think we all know how people react when that happens. "guns aren't the problem, immigrants are! deport all of them!" (even though he was born in the us)
 
absolutely horrific, my thoughts go to victims and the familes
 
This is absolutely disgusting. My condolences go out to all the people involved. May they all rest in peace.
 
A very horrific event, R.I.P. to the victims. This proves that the gun problem is far from controlled.
 
damn tragic

should be interesting to see how much of double edged sword this is for politicians. some will use this as a reason to support the proposed muslim ban and the deportation/banning of immigrants. same people will probably use this as an example to be anti-gun control since "if everyone has guns stuff like this won't end up being as devastating." and if this gets confirmed as a hate-crime (which it most likely is ) there'll be those ultra right wingers that'll be like "teh gays and trannys should be more concerned about stuff like this happening to them, and as such they shouldn't care about every-day discrimination against them." on the other paw there'll be humans who'll use this as an example to be pro-gun control (for obvious reasons) and-in the event it's confirmed to be a hate crime-as an example of why homo/transphobia is a horrible thing
 
Happy said:
damn tragic

should be interesting to see how much of double edged sword this is for politicians. some will use this as a reason to support the proposed muslim ban and the deportation/banning of immigrants. same people will probably use this as an example to be anti-gun control since "if everyone has guns stuff like this won't end up being as devastating." and if this gets confirmed as a hate-crime (which it most likely is ) there'll be those ultra right wingers that'll be like "teh gays and trannys should be more concerned about stuff like this happening to them, and as such they shouldn't care about every-day discrimination against them." on the other paw there'll be humans who'll use this as an example to be pro-gun control (for obvious reasons) and-in the event it's confirmed to be a hate crime-as an example of why homo/transphobia is a horrible thing
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it's already started

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Heard about it from a friend this morning, pretty freaking terrible.

Massive prayers to the victims families, i wish this would stop happening.