A friend of mine shared this online, regarding the recent mass murder shooting--involving military-grade assault weapons (that our congressmen & senators condone, against public wishes, because they want to please the NRA) at a gay bar in Orlando, FL. Here are some good points!
Omar Mateen's hate was born & bred in America. How?
2 weeks ago, America called trans-women "child predators", during a public restroom debate. 1 year ago, America said that gay marriages shouldn't be legal / recognized. 6 years ago, America said that homosexuals couldn't sacrifice their life for their country in military service. 10 years ago, America said that LGBT individuals didn't deserve job protections. 13 years ago, it took the legal case of Lawrence vs. Texas to decriminalize our sex lives! 18 years ago, America took Matthew Sheppard. 36 years ago, the American government began its 5 Years of (unhelpful) Silence, as tens of thousands of gay taxpaying men were massacred by the AIDS virus. 43 years ago, homosexuality was still officially considered a mental disorder by the American medical community. 47 years ago, the self-defense riots at Stonewall began. For centuries, America bred homophobia into our history, into our schools, and into the very fabric of our society. Omar Mateen was the product of American hate and "continued ignorance". America taught him that... and even sold him the gun to do it.
We shouldn't be surprised. America, the self-professed "Land of the Free" (that wants to tell the rest of the globe what to do) was one of the last nations to abolish slavery. It certainly wasn't prompt to treat Women's Rights equally, nor so with Minority Rights or LGBT Rights. It had its own concentration camps during WWII. Puerto Rico will never become a State--despite its people's wishes--because that would "mess up" the arrangement of stars on our historic American flag. Only the Native American Indians were treated worse by our federal govt. Our medical coverage, # of vacation days, transportation infrastructure, air & automobile industries, value of college tuition, and student test scores fall miserably behind almost every other industrialized nation. America is only great at imposing & collecting taxes from its middle class. Ironically, that is something which its birth--the Revolution--was supposed to break away from.
Once again, it can be said... (see this 4min video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk
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