I'd say Mateen's connections to terrorist groups were too strong to just dismiss him as a lone gunman. Especially now that the FBI is dismissing the claim of personal motive.
Is there some reason to want to let Islamic Terrorism off the hook for this, maybe so you can focus entirely on disarming "crazy Americans"? I suppose it works against the political narrative if there's a threat we need to defend ourselves against.
It sure seems like political correctness to dismiss Islamic Terrorism. Which, ultimately, is little more than enabling.
Let's charitably assume for you that Mateen was personally sent by ISIS to kill americans. And he's evidently very competent in that regard, so as biased to you case as possible. Shall we compare how many people "Islamic Terrorism" killed in this worse case assumption to guns in this country? But i'[m not sure if we also charitably assume people hating on muslims can differentiate small vs large numbers, to compare the magnitude of problems.
FBI investigators say they have found no evidence that Orlando shooter had gay lovers
if any of these claims are true about him having gay lovers, being on hookup apps, etc, you'd think they would be easy to prove assuming they have access to the shooter's cellphone and computers.
So numerous people as reported claim they knew him from the apps and in the club. This guy on Univision voluntarily contacts the FBI, and presumably provides info of the others he mentioned. His ex-wife thinks he has gay tendencies, says his family suspects he was gay incl. instance of his father calling him gay.
Presumably if he were in the closet he wouldn't use his usual phone for the gay hookup apps. And presumably you yourself don't think much of the FBI after investigating him multiple times in the past so why accuse them of competence now?
Meh, he cased Disney World too, both target rich environments, and gun free zones, but the club didn't have security, plans and training like Disney World did.
Does the fact he cased Disney World make him animated?
Sure, because there's no other reason anyone would go to Disney and he cased it just like the grocery store and gas station or every other place he's been since april or even before. What's funny is I'm sure your sort were quick to connecting this shooting to Islamic homophobia; so it must've been musophobia that made him single out the magic kingdom.