[quote=SK in CV]
And just a day later, another hateful act took 50 lives. Not like the attack in Tel Aviv a few days earlier. Not like Paris or Brussels or Istanbul. In fact, nothing like them. A hateful man, who hated gays attacked 300 people in a nightclub. And politicians were quick to blame it on muslims. That hasty decision, racist on it’s face, was dead wrong. It had nothing to do with Isis, nothing to do with Islam, radical or otherwise. It had only to do with hate. Hate that is approved of, vindicated, and sanctioned every day in this country.
While politicians mostly ignored the hate, and went on to find solutions to terrorism, solutions to gun control, pointing fingers at who was responsible and who predicted it would happen, they almost all ignored what happened. A gay nightclub with 300 people inside was attacked on latin night. For the sole reason that it was a gay night club. And the guy who did the attacking thought gays should be dead. His father taught him that. His religion taught him that. As Christian preachers over and over again have taught the exact same thing.
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How are you going to say it’s not about his religion in one paragraph and then immediately blame the teachings of his religion for the hate that consumed him in the next. Many religions teach their followers that being a homosexual is a sin. Muslim’s preachers and followers seem to be particularly bad in this regard as evidenced by the laws in countries that are heavily secular Muslim. The shooter attended prayer sessions by an Iman that preached this hate here in this country. Shall we ban the first amendment. Should we ban religions that teach hate towards gays and women. Why should we allow people in this country that have likely been taught this hate towards gays or taught women should be treated as property. Are we naive enough to think we can change these people’s views on gays and women after decades of being taught something else.
As for more more gun control, maybe it’s worth it but seems like our law enforcement already can’t do it’s job. He acquired his weapons via legal means as far as I can tell even though the FBI investigated him and was alerted again by a gun store that refused to sell the shooter the weapons in the first place. Would another law have helped or was it just really crappy law enforcement that had better things to do. The police didn’t storm the building and take out the shooter until 3 hours had passed by while they waited outside. How many people died in that 3 hours that could have been saved if the police had acted as brave heroes rather than complete pansies.
That said banning Muslims isn’t a realistic option and obviously leads to a slippery slope. Who do we ban or discriminate against next. Going as far as repealing the second amendment and confiscating all the guns isn’t going to happen and isn’t necessarily going to stop these kind of attacks either. That didn’t stop the attacks in Europe which have far more restrictive gun control than we do. Being nice and not criticizing the elements of the Muslim religion that teach hate probably isn’t going to make that hate go away. We probably should criticize those elements of the Muslim religion that teach hate rather than ignoring them. In addition we probably should let people arm themselves and carry. It’s not optimal having a bunch of people running around with guns everywhere, but it’s probably the best of a lot of bad solutions.
