Deadliest Mass Shooting in US History

[Chris Hagen*]

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/or...gency-services-respond-reports-gunman-n590446

At least 50 people are dead and more than 50 others wounded after a gunman opened fire and took hostages at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday morning.

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[Fugu]

The thread can be used for news updates and background information, but any political or religious rants need to go to the politics board.

 

[Chris Hagen*]

The thread can be used for news updates and background information, but any political or religious rants need to go to the politics board.

Noted. Thank you, Fugu.

 

[Chris Hagen*]

Very tragic event here. Made even more tragic by the fact it was the LGBQT community. Such a victimized group of people.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Where is the politics board?

 

[HanSolo]

Just horrible.

 

[Chris Hagen*]

Where is the politics board?

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/forumdisplay.php?f=160

 

[HanSolo]

Just a heads up for unknowing souls wanting to go to the political board right now. It's a mess of **** slinging and agenda mongering with little discussion on the victims themselves.

 

[Siamese Dream]

One love

Seen the usual idiotic comments on social media about thoughts and prayers. One genius "praying for the world to be a better place" - yeah praying will definitely make it so, instead of actually doing something

 

[Spectaculard]

Just a heads up for unknowing souls wanting to go to the political board right now. It's a mess of **** slinging and agenda mongering with little discussion on the victims themselves.

Like every single thread in that forum.

 

[HanSolo]

Just thought it was worth reminding.

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

Like every single thread in that forum.

That's simply not true. For the most part, it's a handful of posters that come in and create chaos.

Just thought it was worth reminding.

If you saw the beginning of that thread and the conversations (albeit contentious) we were having compared to when **** hit the fan after people started distorting Obama's speech...

 

[Goonzilla]

I found it a little strange there were no posts here or there about 'The Voice' singer who just got murdered. Is it that in this day and age there are a hell of a lot more inadequate and alienated people with poor rationalisation or impulse control out there or is it just easier for those types to lash out and victimise people?

It's seemingly always the work of losers.

 

[irunthepeg]

I hate that shootings aren't even as big of a shock to me anymore. Sad. Thoughts and prayers with all the families of the victims.

 

[RayP]

I hate that shootings aren't even as big of a shock to me anymore. Sad. Thoughts and prayers with all the families of the victims.

I didn't even flinch when I heard there was a shooting in Florida. If wasn't until someone sent me a text that it happened, which then made me curious to the details about it and to then see how bad it was.

That's sick.

 

[CycloneLaunch]

Rip to all the victims

Sad if there was any on the low dudes exposed this way

 

[HanSolo]

I found it a little strange there were no posts here or there about 'The Voice' singer who just got murdered. Is it that in this day and age there are a hell of a lot more inadequate and alienated people with poor rationalisation or impulse control out there or is it just easier for those types to lash out and victimise people?

It's seemingly always the work of losers.

There was a whole thread about Christina Grimme on the Entertainment board.

And no offense to her, but one murder suicide is not as tragic as 51+ murders with the body count likely to rise.

 

[HanSolo]

That's simply not true. For the most part, it's a handful of posters that come in and create chaos.



If you saw the beginning of that thread and the conversations (albeit contentious) we were having compared to when **** hit the fan after people started distorting Obama's speech...

Well I could've expected as much. Didn't get to thread for a few hours since I hadn't heard about until well after it happened.

 

[SladeWilson23]

Absolutely ****ing horrible. Just horrible. RIP to all the victims.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Like every single thread in that forum.

This. Very much this. Head there if you're interested to know which of your fellow hf posters are secretly terrible human beings.

 

[Goonzilla]

This. Very much this. Head there if you're interested to know which of your fellow hf posters are secretly terrible human beings.

I don't know about that; I think it's more about some people craving a significance or influence that they might not enjoy elsewhere to the extent they would like.

The biggest irony is the intolerance shown towards some people by people who proclaim to revile intolerance. Champions of freedom of speech as long as it conforms to their own world view or ideals, regardless of what side of the fence they sit on.

There's nothing worse than hypocrisy.

 

[HanSolo]

I don't know about that; I think it's more about some people craving a significance or influence that they might not enjoy elsewhere to the extent they would like.

The biggest irony is the intolerance shown towards some people by people who proclaim to revile intolerance. Champions of freedom of speech as long as it conforms to their own world view or ideals, regardless of what side of the fence they sit on.

There's nothing worse than hypocrisy.

Absolutely agree. Political discourse in America is dead. It's reverted to name calling and thinking everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot or a nazi.

 

[Goonzilla]

Absolutely agree. Political discourse in America is dead. It's reverted to name calling and thinking everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot or a nazi.

Then there's the media who are responsible for and stir up a lot of it, on both sides of the fence. The old 'if it bleeds it leads'. They run any story, to try and beat the competition. Tragedy is just a business opportunity for them.

Tie it to ISIS or homophobia before any facts have been established.

If the best military operation or coordinated attack they can manage in the US is a lone wolf shooting up a nightclub, then they aren't nearly the danger they'd like people to think. Really any disaffected and dysfunctional no hoper could do that..and most such shootings are the work of just that.

 

[BigMac1212]

Such a horrible scene. My thoughts and prayers for those affected by this.

 

[stealth1]

My condolences to the families of the victims. Like a few others have said, it happens so often now that I have become numb to it. I am still struggling to understand why so many young men are angry at the world? When I was that age you didn't see so many angry men like you do now.