THE MASSACRE @ THE PULSE NIGHT CLUB

Our history is violence -- we are a nation founded on the principles of oppression and genocide. We should not be surprised that mass killing continues to happen in this country. It's just the latest manifestation of gun violence in the country -- someone always hates someone - African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, women, LGBTQ people, people who believe religiously other than themselves, doctors who perform abortions, themselves, etc.

But with laissez faire gun laws, automatic weapons and this country's pop culture obsession with mayhem and murder, unless we can change the paradigm of our collective soul, this story will just be repeated ad nauseam until we are inured into oblivion.

And remember we are the empire -- how we think and behave trickles down to the rest of the world.

(UPDATE: I was corrected -- only 30 or so people died @ Rosewood "where most of these deaths weren't by shooting"  but "most from mutilation, torture and hanging (typical lynchings of the time)." (To quote my correcting friend

But the above list also doesn't include the 150 dead @ Wounded Knee or the 120 dead by the Mormons @ the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mass murder is always an act of terrorism regardless of who is the perpetrator -- be a lone gunman, a vigilante mob or the US government.


Nowadays who needs lynching, torture and mutilation when owning AR-15's and extended magazines are legal?)