but surely the issue is was he a blind black gay muslim in a wheelchair with a jewsih stepfather

I'm a bit more concerned that the shooter is a psychiatrist.

oi

Dear Pynchme,

I think one reason a person becomes a psychiatrist is to try to understand their own demons. It's a trade that attracts the troubled minds.

It's fascinating how we infuse those we demonise with an apparent intention that tells us zip about the actual dynamic, but serves to expose out intellectual limitations.

In another realm of make-it-up-as-we-go - that of lobbying for 'alternative medicine' [dangerous expensive and buoyed by junk science] - the cause of this shooting, and the Orlando shooting was in little doubt less than 36 hours after both: 'psychotropic drugs'. And the "natural med" blogs lit up as one - a heartbeat behind the racist/supremacist ones.

It's the fact he's a psychiatrist, not a Muslim, that sustains this horrid invention. "It's well known doctors self medicate and facing the stress of deployment surely he was self-medicating". The Orlando shooter had a history of psychiatric problems, hence [ignoring his mental health is poor] the drugs given him must have caused his behaviour. The slight hitch is no-one knows if either chap took sugar in their coffee much less their med regime.

Thus the tragedy serves the peddlers of myth and verisimilitude. Which raises Christianity and the new shiny Christian toy of blaming everything that isn't Christian for all that is "bad".

Prosecution of the prophets doctrine is what Aussie tax payers fund as lesson format in Australian faith schools. Christians have equally foul distortions of reality, and are busy at the coal face welding this to "justified outrage" - as if at the last they can bluff the planet into feeling silly. Yet Jesus is the chap who gave eternal torment to our species [hell].

The prophet built upon this notion, fooling followers into believing that to die in his service, was an escape from torment/entry to paradise. Jesus is revered by Muslims and Jihadists. Jesus is the seat of all horror. Jesus gave us the pinnacle of martyrdom. Jesus helped shape Islam - there is no debate here.

It is a sin for a Muslim to kill another Muslim. Al Qaeda deceives Jihadists who indiscriminately kill Muslims. It is eternal hell - not paradise that awaits.

Perhaps this is what the Major feared. And who gave us "hell"? Jesus Christ.

It would seem the war in Iraq, as with all wars has unintended consequences.

From Wikipedia

"In interviews before his execution, documented in American Terrorist, McVeigh stated he decapitated an Iraqi soldier with cannon fire on his first day in the war and celebrated. But he said he later was shocked to be ordered to execute surrendering prisoners and to see carnage on the road leaving Kuwait City after U.S. troops routed the Iraqi army. In interviews following the Oklahoma City bombing, McVeigh said he began harbouring anti-government feelings during the Gulf War."

Perhaps these occurrences should force us pause us to a little longer at this time of year and remember the domestic toll that should be added to the balance sheet of any conflict.

The leaders we should admire are the ones that do their utmost to prevent the cost of war being inflicted on theirs and other nations.

csteele,

The leaders we should admire are the ones who recognise an implacable enemy
and do their utmost to crush them before they crush us.