First, my heart goes out to all those personally affected. What this thing (sorry, even the liberal in me cannot think of OM as human) did in killing 50 and wounding another 53 is an obscenity to the nth degree. It is a tragedy of the ugliest kind.
To call it an act of terrorism is too easy to my mind. It was a hate crime. The fact this thing had been on watch lists by Homeland Security and the FBI is irrelevant. I truly believe it would have acted the same way whether a Muslim, a fundamentalist Christian or just a homophobic arsehole. Its goal was to kill members of the Gay community, a goal tragically met.
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention
Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay)
"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein
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