While true that this was a hate crime, it doesn't really matter much in stopping mass murder in this nation. Paranoids, crazies, white supremacists, religious fanatics all still occupy our population, and all they need to do is visit their local gun dealer to obtain weapons of great destruction. And hatred of LGBT people is posted every day on this site and every other one.
Dear America. Gun Control Works. Please, Please Do It. Love, Australia.
"In 1991, Warren E. Burger, the conservative chief justice of the Supreme Court, was interviewed on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour about the meaning of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms." Burger answered that the Second Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud--I repeat the word 'fraud'--on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime." In a speech in 1992, Burger declared that "the Second Amendment doesn't guarantee the right to have firearms at all. "In his view, the purpose of the Second Amendment was "to ensure that the 'state armies'--'the militia'--would be maintained for the defense of the state."
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This was a hate crime, that it had a religious nutcase is no different than our own religious nutcases that blow up buildings or kill doctors. But this is America folks, according to our congress, the NRA, presidential candidates galore, gun makers and a weird reading of the 2nd every nutcase has a right to be a mass murderer. It's written into the baloney that passes for thought in America, having a zillion guns keeps you safe, well it doesn't but that doesn't really matter. Any crazy hate filled person and / or mentally unstable crackpot has this right, didn't the SCOTUS say so? And folks Congress needs money to pad their pockets. and gun makers and the NRA provide it, along with the blessing of idiots in journalism.
This is so simple folks, it comes with the freedom to be stupid. Consequences don't matter when you say freedom five times.