In the early hours of Sunday June 12, 2016 a ‘radicalized’ gunman massacred 50 at the Orlando, Fl gay club and wounded 53 others in the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S.
This is my comment on the Council on Foreign Relations’ question: “Why do mass shootings occur more frequently in the United States than other major democracies?”
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The U.S. is a melting pot where various sometimes conflicting cultures and beliefs are FORCED to integrate. The county office where the San Bernardino shooting happened, held a job fair in the morning. In the afternoon it became the office Christmas party. Those who worked in the office but do not celebrate Christmas were also invited. In fact there were reports that the shooter had an argument with a non-Christian co-worker about two weeks before the shooting.
You cannot have all the cultures in the world mixed up in one place and not run the risk of having these debates and clashes, violent or otherwise. It’s like having a one-party system in a country with people from all over the world and expecting to please everybody. Would it be too much of a stretch to say it’s like having cats and dogs placed in one cage?
Switzerland while it has many gun owners is a homogeneous society and it’s been that way for hundreds of years. The U.S. established in 1776, is made up of immigrants from so many different countries. The U.S. has a history of less than a hundred years of as a nation of immigrants from all over the world. For instance, Laotians, Cambodians and Vietnamese didn’t immigrate to the U.S. until after April 1975.
So it now appears the Obama administration is doing a social experiment but could not be held accountable for its unintended consequences. Would there be so many victims if the gay club employed armed security or had armed employees?
The support the LGBTI got from the administration and politicians gave the community a false sense of security. Official recognition was interpreted to mean the idea is accepted by everyone even those who were born and raised opposed to the trend. Politicians should be held accountable for this.
On Sept. 23, 1957 when the City of Little Rock, AR complied with the Supreme Court ruling that school boards desegregate (stop separating the races) as quickly as possible, upon the Mayor’s request, Pres. Eisenhower provided ARMED federalized National Guards to escort the Little Rock Nine, African-American high school students who transferred to an all-white Central High School. The photo of young African-Americans entering the school escorted by ARMED soldiers was etched in my mind.
On September 23, 1957 the Little Rock Nine were eventually escorted into Central High by the federalized the Arkansas National Guard. A mob of several thousand white segregationists had gathered at the school to stop the children from entering. The following morning, more than one thousand soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division accompanied the Little Rock Nine into Central High.