Prayers and condolences for all persons

involved or impacted by the mass murders in Orlando Florida last night.





This is of course, with 50 already confirmed dead and another 53 being treated in the ER (some critically injured so the death toll may still rise), the largest mass shooting by a lone gunman in US history and changes will have to happen because of it.


What the changes will be is of course yet to be jelled. We now know the shooter is/was a US Born citizen of Afghan descent. We know he had an AR-15, a pistol and some devices (the bomb squads are still looking at them) he planted around the Gay & Lesbian Club where the slaughters occurred.

I know some are already blaming the availability of guns, but as someone who knows how childishly easy it is to make a gun and the wide spread availability of non-gun kits designed to be completed into guns that work, the presence all over the web of gun blue prints and machines to mill or turn steel and how fairly powerful explosives can be put together in a home with household chemicals such as nail polish remover, paint thinner and an antiseptic (for instance, many other do it yourself compounds are possible and easy) I am not sure thosse facts are the entire extent of the problem.

Obviously because the shooter's parents are from Afghanistan some have seized on that and claim that is proof he was a Muslim extremist and the shooting was ideological in motive.

For me, I need more. For all we know he was Catholic or Christian as both religion's Bibles also speak out against Gays.

What is clear to me is that I am sure there were warning signs of s dangerous psychosis which some people ignored or the official response to was grossly inadequate. We saw that here in VA when a young Asian who had scchizophrenia so badly he was committed for it by his parents, but the Mental Health system in VA failedm citing a 'right to medical privacy' to forward his name to law enforcement which allowed the crazy college student to shoot up his campus. We also saw clear warning signs of dangerous psychosis when a television reporter in Roanoke gunned down former co-workers. And on and on. Aurora, California, Newhall, Connecticut, etc. Fact is most mass shooters turned out to be very crazy people and folks knew it, but also allowed them to leave the psychiatric institutions and often local law enforcement was never notified so their name did not match any records in the law enforcement data bases when they went to buy a gun. That needs to change.

Yes, I concede they could still make one, but often when a mental disease reaches that point, well let's just say making things that work, that ability is often gone. In any case if they were still kept in a nut hospital (political incorrectness of using the Nut word seen and ignored) where they belonged, the only thing they would be permitted to make would be pot holders and oven mitts.