{"id":59262,"date":"2016-06-20T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59262"},"modified":"2016-06-19T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T14:27:59","slug":"darn-those-white-conservative-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59262","title":{"rendered":"Darn Those White Conservative Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando murderer Omar Mateen – a man who seems to have mixed sexual confusion and extreme millenarian Islam on his way to becoming the worst mass-shooter in US history – was giving off warning signs even in childhood<\/a>:<\/p>\n

At age 14, he said he could shoot an AK-47 and mimicked an airplane flying into the World Trade Center. At 26, he bragged to courthouse co-workers of terrorist ties. Weeks ago, at 29, Mateen sought to buy heavy-duty body armor and bulk ammunition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many of his violent outbursts aped or celebrated Islamic terrorism and he repeatedly claimed connections to known terrorists, including the Boston Marathon bombers<\/a>. He cheered the 9\/11 attacks on the day they happened and once threatened to shoot partygoers at a barbecue when pork, which is forbidden to Muslims, touched his hamburger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bear in mind that Mateen passed not one, but\u00a0eight\u00a0<\/em>background checks:<\/p>\n

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So let’s walk through this from the beginning:<\/p>\n

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  1. Mateen spends his entire life as a vocal terror sympathizer. \u00a0He also meets all the right people – has contact with other known terror figures, the whole nine yards.<\/li>\n
  2. The feds investigate him at least twice. \u00a0Maybe they found nothing. \u00a0Maybe political pressure led then to foreshorten their inquiry; maybe to avert accusations of “profiling” they took their resources to investigate NASCAR drivers in Alabama. \u00a0We don’t know, and probably never will.<\/li>\n
  3. Mateen passes eight of the background checks that are the “common sense regulation” that the orcs of Big Gun Control want to subject the law-abiding citizen to – which is further evidence that they don’t care about crime, but\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>want to register gun owners.<\/li>\n
  4. Mateen – who was either in the midst of a struggle over sexuality, or was adopting a “gay” cover to case gay bars for his attacks – becomes enough of a regular figure in Orlando gay bars to not arouse notice.<\/li>\n
  5. For their part, the State of Florida made all bars “gun free zones”; every victim at “Pulse” was, by law, disarmed. \u00a0 \u00a0 While gun owners in many states – the states where “gun free zones” are treated as trespassing rather than misdemeanors or worse – routinely ignore “gun free zone” signs, nobody at “Pulse” apparently did.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Oh, yeah. \u00a0It just\u00a0must\u00a0<\/em>be the fault of Christian NRA members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Orlando murderer Omar Mateen – a man who seems to have mixed sexual confusion and extreme millenarian Islam on his way to becoming the worst mass-shooter in US history – was giving off warning signs even in childhood: At age 14, he said he could shoot an AK-47 and mimicked an airplane flying into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,45,79,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-gun-free-zones","category-slander-files","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59263,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59262\/revisions\/59263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}