Orlando terror attack worst mass shooting in US history

[OriZ 3,157]

The MDL will be along shortly to post a link to some anti gay crime , committed by some Non Muslim somewhere at some point in time , and to point out a few Catholic priests molested a child.

They will claim this is solid proof there is no world wide problem with radical Islam that is the biggest threat facing mankind today.

If you don't like Hillary you fear strong women.

Don't forget...we need common sense gun control.

[OriZ 3,157]

No matter the killer's citizenship, it seems that both Islam and homophobia have something to do with it. To pretend otherwise is just intellectually dishonest. Not that I expect anything intellectual on VJ, but I do expect a bit better from some.

Edit: I might add, not to mention easy access to guns, and mental health problems.

Not easy to get guns in Orlando...

[yuna628 9,527]

Police in Santa Monica Sunday arrested a man, armed with assault rifles and possible explosives, who said he was in town for the Los Angeles gay pride festival.

Santa Monica police were responding to a call about a prowler early Sunday morning when they encountered the man, who has not been identified, in or near a white Acura sedan with Indiana plates. A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed assault rifles, ammunition, and tannerite, an explosive used in target practice and sometimes pipe bombs, the LA Times reports. A source tells the paper he appeared to be caucasian.

The man reportedly told police he was waiting for a friend and in town for the gay pride festival.

http://gawker.com/man-armed-with-assault-rifles-and-possible-explosives-1781841359

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

So, does this mean we need to start looking at registered gun owners more closely?

We looked at him hard and it changed nothing. The problem here is radical Islam and homophobe

[Donald Trump 8]

Thank God he wasn't a Redneck. The President would be screaming about hate and Racism right now. Of course you all see where this is going. The MDL is already attacking Christians. I know we know how insane that is, but it was predicted.

Obummer I am sure will try to make a gun grab out of this instead of addressing the growing global crisis of radical Islam.

Of course he will focus on guns and ignore the radical islam issues the world is facing

He is a closet Muslim himself

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

It just hit me. All this keeps going on in Orlando. Disney world's fault.

I am sure they radicals hate Disney world also.symbol of American infidel Decadance

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

Or not hand him the election. We all know how a large portion of Americans especially Christians feel about gays. Look at the anti-gay, anti-transgender comments right here on vj in CEHST.

I'm sure there are some good ole Americans cheering right now and saying those people deserve it because of their sinful life and God dont like sin and being gay is an abomination.

Actually most Christians that don't like gays would never go out and kill gays. But the predominant reaction in the radical Islamic community for gay people is to kill them.

[OriZ 3,157]

Actually most Christians that don't like gays would never go out and kill gays. But the predominant reaction in the radical Islamic community for gay people is to kill them.

Nevermind the fact there's hardly ever any anti gay talk on VJ to start with

[Janelle2002 3,865]

In 2014, the FBI reported that 20.8% of hate crimes reported to police in 2013 were founded on perceived sexual orientation. 61% of those attacks were against gay men.[2] Additionally, 0.5% of all hate crimes were based on perceived gender identity. In 2004, the FBI reported that 14% of hate crimes due to perceived sexual orientation were against lesbians, 2% against heterosexuals and 1% against bisexuals.[3]

The FBI reported that for 2006, hate crimes against gays increased from 14% to 16% in 2005, as percentage of total documented hate crimes across the U.S.[4] The 2006 annual report, released on November 19, 2007, also said that hate crimes based on sexual orientation are the third most common type, behind race and religion.[4] In 2008, 17.6% of hate crimes were based on the victim's perceived sexual orientation. Of those crimes, 72.23% were violent in nature. 4,704 crimes were committed due to racial bias and 1,617 were committed due to sexual orientation. Of these, only one murder and one forcible rape were committed due to racial bias, whereas five murders and six rapes were committed based on sexual orientation.[5]

July 3, 2000 Arthur "J.R." Warren was punched and kicked to death in Grant Town, West Virginia by two teenage boys who reportedly believed Warren had spread a rumor that he and one of the boys, David Allen Parker, had a sexual relationship. Warren's killers ran over his body to disguise the murder as a hit-and-run. Parker pleaded guilty and was sentenced to "life in prison with mercy", making him eligible for parole after 15 years.[44] His accomplice, Jared Wilson, was sentenced to 20 years.[45]

September 22, 2000 Ronald Gay entered a gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia and opened fire on the patrons, killing Danny Overstreet, 43 years old, and severely injuring six others. Ronald said he was angry over what his name now meant, and deeply upset that three of his sons had changed their surname. He claimed that he had been told by God to find and kill lesbians and gay men, describing himself as a "Christian Soldier working for my Lord;" Gay testified in court that "he wished he could have killed more fags," before several of the shooting victims as well as Danny Overstreet's family and friends.[46]

June 16, 2001 Fred Martinez, a transgender and two-spirit student was bludgeoned to death near Cortez, Colorado by 18-year-old Shaun Murphy, who reportedly bragged about attacking a "**".[47][48]

June 12, 2002 Philip Walsted, a gay man, was fatally beaten with a baseball bat. According to prosecutors, the neo-Nazi views of Walsted's assailant's, David Higdon, led to what was originally a robbery escalating to murder. Higdon was sentenced to life in prison, plus an additional sentence for robbery.[49]

August 6, 2002 Rodney Velasquez, a 26-year-old Latino gay man was found murdered in the bathtub of his Bronx apartment.[50]

October 3, 2002 Gwen Araujo, a trans woman, was murdered by at least three men who were charged with committing a hate crime. Two were convicted of murder, the third manslaughter; however, the jury rejected the hate crime enhancement.

December 24, 2002 Nizah Morris, a 47-year-old black trans woman, was possibly murdered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[51]

December 12, 2001 Terrianne Summers, a 51-year-old trans woman and activist for transgender rights, was shot and killed in her front yard in Florida. No arrests were made and police did not investigate her murder as a hate crime.[52] Terriane's high visibility as a trans woman due to her activist role has led her to be included in lists of anti LGBT hate crimes, although lack of police interest in her murder means the motives behind the killing may never be known.

May 11, 2003 Sakia Gunn, a black 15-year-old lesbian, was murdered in Newark, New Jersey. While waiting for a bus, Gunn and her friends were propositioned by two men. When the girls rejected their advances, declaring themselves to be lesbians, the men attacked them. One of the men, Richard McCullough, fatally stabbed Gunn. In exchange for his pleading guilty to several lesser crimes including aggravated manslaughter, prosecutors dropped murder charges against McCullough, who was sentenced to 20 years.[53][54]

June 17, 2003 Richie Phillips of Elizabethtown, Kentucky was killed by Joseph Cottrell. His body was later found in a suitcase in Rough River Lake. During his trial, two of Cottrell's relatives testified that he lured Phillips to his death, and killed him because he was gay.[55] Cottrell was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison.[56]

July 23, 2003 Nireah Johnson and Brandie Coleman were shot to death by Paul Moore, when Moore learned after a sexual encounter that Johnson was transgender.[57] Moore then burned his victims' bodies. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 120 years in prison.[58]

July 31, 2003 37-year-old Glenn Kopitske was shot and stabbed in the back by 17-year-old Gary Hirte, a straight-A student, star athlete and Eagle Scout,[59] in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. Prosecutors contended that Hirte murdered Kopitske to see if he could get away with it.[60] Hirte pleaded insanity, claiming he killed Kopitske in a murderous rage after a consensual sexual encounter with the victim, because he felt a homosexual act was "worse than murder". The 'temporary insanity' mitigation plea was not upheld, he was found guilty, and received a life sentence.

August 2003 Emonie Spaulding, a black 25-year-old trans woman, was shot to death in Washington DC by Derrick Antwan Lewis after he discovered she was trans.[61]

July 22, 2004 18-year-old Scotty Joe Weaver of Bay Minette, Alabama, was murdered. His burned and partially decomposed body was discovered a few miles from the mobile home in which he lived. He was beaten, strangled and stabbed numerous times, partially decapitated, and his body was doused in gasoline and set on fire.

October 2, 2004 Daniel Fetty, a gay man who was hearing-impaired and homeless was attacked by multiple assailants in Waverly, Ohio. Fetty was beaten, stomped, shoved nude into a garbage bin, impaled with a stick, and left for dead; he succumbed to his injuries the next day. Prosecuters alleged a hate crime. Three men received sentences ranging from seven years to life.[62]

January 28, 2005 Ronnie Antonio Paris, a three-year-old boy living in Tampa, Florida, died due to brain injuries inflicted by his father, Ronnie Paris, Jr. According to his mother and other relatives, Ronnie Paris, Jr., repeatedly slammed his son into walls, slapped the child's head, and "boxed" him because he was concerned the child was gay and would grow up a sissy. Paris was sentenced to thirty years in prison.[63][64]

On February 27, 2005, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 21-year-old James Maestas was assaulted outside a restaurant, then followed to a hotel and beaten unconscious by men who called him "faggot" during the attack. Although all of his attackers were charged with committing a hate crime, none was sentenced to prison.[65]

March 11, 2005 Jason Gage, an openly gay man, was murdered in his Waterloo, Iowa, apartment by an assailant, Joseph Lawrence, who claimed Gage had made sexual advance to him. Gage was bludgeoned to death with a bottle, and stabbed in the neck, probably post-mortem, with a shard of glass.[66] Lawrence was sentenced to fifty years in prison.

October 25, 2005 Emanuel Xavier, an openly gay poet and activist, was surrounded and brutally beaten by a group of fifteen to twenty teens on the streets of Bushwick which left him permanently deaf in his right ear.[67]

February 2, 2006 18-year-old Jacob D. Robida entered a bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts, confirmed that it was a gay bar, and then attacked patrons with a hatchet and a handgun, wounding three.[68] He fatally shot himself three days later.[69]

June 10, 2006 Kevin Aviance, a female impressionist, musician, and fashion designer, was robbed and beaten in Manhattan by a group of men who yelled anti-gay slurs at him. Four assailants pleaded guilty and received prison sentences.[70]

July 30, 2006 Six men were attacked with baseball bats and knives after leaving the San Diego Gay Pride festival. One victim was injured so severely that he had to undergo extensive facial reconstructive surgery. Three men pleaded guilty in connection with the attacks and received prison sentences. A 15-year-old juvenile also pleaded guilty.[71][72]

October 8, 2006 Michael Sandy was attacked by four young heterosexual men who lured him into meeting after chatting online, while they were looking for gay men to rob. He was struck by a car while trying to escape his attackers, and died five days later without regaining consciousness.[73][74]

February 27, 2007 Andrew Anthos, a 72-year-old disabled gay man, was beaten with a lead pipe in Detroit, Michigan by a man who was shouting anti-gay names at him. Anthos died 10 days later in the hospital.[75]

March 15, 2007 Ryan Keith Skipper, a 25-year-old gay man was stabbed to death in Wahneta, Florida. Four suspects were arrested for the crime. The Sheriff is calling it a hate crime.[76]

March 16, 2007 Ruby Ordeñana, a 24-year-old Latina transgender woman, was found naked and strangled to death in San Francisco, CA at 5:40 am.[77][78] Donzell Francis, who was suspected of raping and strangling Ordeñana, was convicted on December 23, 2009 and sentenced to 17 years and 18 months in prison for forcible oral copulation, robbery, assault causing great bodily injury, and false imprisonment of another transgender woman.[79]

May 12, 2007 Roberto Duncanson was murdered in Brooklyn, New York. He was stabbed to death by Omar Willock, who claimed Duncanson had flirted with him.[80]

May 16, 2007 Sean William Kennedy, 20, was walking to his car from Brew's Bar in Greenville, SC when Stephen Andrew Moller, 18, got out of another car and approached Kennedy. Investigators said that Moller made a comment about Kennedy's sexual orientation, and threw a fatal punch because he didn't like the other man's sexual preference.[81]

October 2007 Steven Domer, a 62-year-old gay man, was murdered in Oklahoma.[82]

December 8, 2007 25-year-old gay man Nathaniel Salerno was attacked by four men on a Metro train in Washington, DC. The men called him "faggot" while they beat him.[83]

January 8, 2008 Stacey Brown, a black 30-year-old trans woman, was found dead in her apartment. She had been shot in the head.[84]

July 1, 2008 Ebony Whitaker, an African American trans woman, was shot and killed in Memphis.[85]

February 2008 Duanna Johnson, a trans woman, was beaten by a police officer while she was held in the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center in Tennessee. Johnson said the officers reportedly called her a faggot and he-she, before and during the incident.[86] In November 2008, she was found dead in the street, reportedly gunned down by three unknown individuals.[87]

February 4, 2008 Ashley Sweeney, a trans woman, was shot in the head. Her body was found in Detroit, Michigan.[88]

February 10, 2008 Sanesha Stewart, a 25-year-old black trans woman was stabbed to death in Bronx, New York.[89]

February 12, 2008 Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15-year-old junior highschool student was shot twice by a classmate at E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California. He was taken off life support after doctors declared him brain dead on February 15.[90] According to Associated Press reports, "prosecutors have charged a 14-year-old classmate with premeditated murder with hate-crime and firearm-use enhancements".[91][92][93]

February 22, 2008 Simmie Williams Jr. was a black gender-nonconforming 17-year-old, who was shot dead on a street corner in Broward County, Florida.[94]

March 16, 2008 Police say Lance Neve was beaten unconscious in Rochester, New York because Neve was gay. A man attacked Neve at a bar leaving him with a fractured skull, and a broken nose. Jesse Parsons was sentenced to more than five years in prison for the assault.

May 29, 2008 Eighteen-year-old Steven Parrish, a member of the 92 Family Swans subgroup of the Bloods, was murdered by Steven T. Hollis III and Juan L. Flythe on orders from gang leader Timothy Rawlings Jr., in Baltimore County, Maryland after they found "gay messages" on his cell phone. The felt having a gay member would make their gang appear weak. Hollis III pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison; Flythe was given a life sentence with all but 30 years suspended; and Rawlings was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A fourth man, Benedict Wureh, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and was sentenced to time served, about 17 months.[95]

June 9, 2008 Jeremy Waggoner, an openly gay hairstylist from Royal Oak, Michigan, was brutally murdered in Detroit. His murder is still unsolved.[96]

July 2008 Lindon Barrett - Was an American Professor and author of ("Blackness and Value: Seeing Double" and " Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity.") Barrett was murdered July 12, 2008, [1]; [2]

July 17, 2008 Eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata, a trans woman, was beaten to death in Colorado two days after meeting Allen Ray Andrade. The case was prosecuted as a hate crime, and Andrade was found guilty of first degree murder on April 22, 2009.[97]

August 20, 2008 Nahkia Williams, a black trans woman, was shot to death in Louisville, Kentucky. Damon Malone was charged with her murder, robbery, and burglary, and sentenced to 35 years in prison.[98]

September 7, 2008 Tony Randolph Hunter, 27, and his partner were attacked and beaten near a gay bar in Washington DC. Hunter later died from his injuries on September 18. Police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.[99]

September 13, 2008 26-year-old Nima Daivari was attacked in Denver, Colorado by a man who called him "faggot". The police that arrived on the scene refused to make a report of the attack.[100]

September 21, 2008 22-year-old trans woman Ruby Molina's nude body was found facedown on the bank of a river in isolated and undeveloped area in Sacramento, California.[101]

November 7, 2008 The home of openly gay Melvin Whistlehunt in Newton, North Carolina was destroyed by arsonists. Investigators found homophobic graffiti spray-painted on the back of the house.[102]

I'd go on but it would be pages long

California 'Kill the Gays' ballot blocked

Judge Raymond Cadei strikes out Sodomite Suppression Act as a ballot initiative, ruling it divisive, inappropriate and a waste of public resources

California attorney general Kamala Harris welcomed the death knell for the Kill the Gays ballot initiative.

California attorney general Kamala Harris welcomed the death knell for the Kill the Gays ballot

A proposed shoot the gays ballot initiative in California that called for the execution of state residents on the basis of their sexuality has been quashed by a judge, sparing voters from the possibility of having to debate it during fall elections.

Judge Raymond Cadei of the Sacramento superior court wrote that the measure, called the Sodomite Suppression Act, was patently unconstitutional in a ruling filed on Monday and released on Tuesday.

Edited June 12, 2016 by Janelle2002

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Nevermind the fact there's hardly ever any anti gay talk on VJ to start with

Please yall had a fit over transgender people using the restroom. I differ.

Wasn't it you who purposed standing over your wife's toilet stall to watch her tinky just in case a transgender walks in on her who could also be a pervert?

[lostinblue 1,989]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly transporting illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and releasing them without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents, Border Patrol sources tell Judicial Watch. The government classifies them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and this week around 35 were transferred 116 miles north from Tucson to a Phoenix bus station where they went their separate way. Judicial Watch was present when one of the white vans carrying a group of OTMs arrived at the Phoenix Greyhound station on Buckeye Road.
The OTMs are from Honduras, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala and Border Patrol officials say this week’s batch was in custody for a couple of days and ordered to call family members in the U.S. so they could purchase a bus ticket for their upcoming trip from Phoenix. Authorities didn’t bother checking the identity of the U.S. relatives or if they’re in the country legally, according to a Border Patrol official directly involved in the matter. American taxpayers pick up the fare for those who claim to have a “credible fear,” Border Patrol sources told JW. None of the OTMs were issued official court appearance documents, but were told to “promise” they’d show up for a hearing when notified, said federal agents with firsthand knowledge of the operation.

A security company contracted by the U.S. government is driving the OTMs from the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector where they were in custody to Phoenix, sources said. The firm is called G4S and claims to be the world’s leading security solutions group with operations in more than 100 countries and 610,000 employees. G4S has more than 50,000 employees in the U.S. and its domestic headquarters is in Jupiter, Florida. Judicial Watch is filing a number of public records requests to get more information involving the arrangement between G4S and the government, specifically the transport of illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to other parts of the country. The photo accompanying this story shows the uniformed G4S guard that transported the OTMs this week from Tucson to Phoenix.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/06/dhs-quietly-moving-releasing-vanloads-illegal-aliens-away-border/

[OriZ 3,157]

Please yall had a fit over transgender people using the restroom. I differ.

Wasn't it you who purposed standing over your wife's toilet stall to watch her tinky just in case a transgender walks in on her who could also be a pervert?

As I said....

There was no anti gay talk on VJ.

You tend to like forming your own decisions and opinions on what's being said here and calling apples oranges that's your prerogative.

But a twisted view of reality doesn't mean anyone here hates on anyone just because they believe different than you do on certain things. I accept everybody and said that in those posts as well. Doesn't mean I have to believe in someone using whatever bathroom they choose to.

I'd be the last one who is anti gay, anti muslim or anti black. I accept all walks of life and have friends from all of them. Including MDLC folks. And I'm proud to live in a state that was the first to grant gays the right to marry via legislation and not court order.

Edited June 12, 2016 by OriZ

[OriZ 3,157]

It just hit me. All this keeps going on in Orlando. Disney world's fault.

I am sure they radicals hate Disney world also.symbol of American infidel Decadance

You can add if you don't believe anyone can use whatever bathroom they want, you are anti gay.

What is this world coming to.

Edited June 12, 2016 by OriZ

[yuna628 9,527]

There are some who don't believe in the right of a gay transgendered person to pee in the restroom of their choosing. They say it offends them. Maybe they just can't handle the thought or maybe they think their religion says it's an abomination. It offends them so much, they have flipped out and began harassing people in bathrooms, in schools, or on the street, and in some cases criminally assaulting them. Want even more links I can show them.

A pastor attended a GOP conference and announced to the audience that gays should be killed.

The Kill the Gays ballot was attempted. The author is ''Christian'' Some people thought it was an awesome idea. Some people still think it's such an awesome idea that they go to other countries to help do just that!

There was a man who saw gay people kissing. He saw a gay person pee in the restroom of their choosing. He thinks his religion says it's an abomination. Then he went out and slaughtered every gay he could find.

Within a few hours a Republican official seemed to think that was a marvelous idea.

Pundits and Pastors should not be surprised when people take them up on their rhetoric from wherever it originates.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Actually most Christians that don't like gays would never go out and kill gays. But the predominant reaction in the radical Islamic community for gay people is to kill them.

And state sanctioned in some Islamic run countries,