This is the 2nd most fatal shooting by single shooter in world history, 2nd to Norway 2011: https://t.co/cYcYyqMyx8 https://t.co/69rHGopCHI— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) June 12, 2016
As news about the atrocity at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando early this morning breaks, tweets that are catching my attention:
This is now the deadliest shooting in American history followed by Virginia Tech, where 32 were killed in 2007 https://t.co/VeMJxPFoDM— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) June 12, 2016
50 dead in LGBT nightclub attack. Perspective:— Lucia Graves (@lucia_graves) June 12, 2016
Va Tech: 32
Sandy Hook: 27
San Bern: 14
Fort Hood: 13
Navy Yard: 12
Aurora: 12
Charleston: 9
This is the deadliest mass shooting in American history -- passing Virginia Tech. A record we didn't need to break: https://t.co/qdzZ4wHPZL— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 12, 2016
This terrorist act doesn't exist in a vacuum, but in a culture in which half the political leaders openly advocate for guns & queer hatred.— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) June 12, 2016
Hate speech in our political culture has contributed to this mass killing. Lack of gun safety laws too. #Orlando https://t.co/ULbYX6lQdW— Meg Ulmes (@calatayud7) June 12, 2016
Gay and bisexual men are legally banned from donating blood in Orlando as dozens of their peers sit wounded in a hospital in need of it.— Chelsea Farrington (@ChelsFarrington) June 12, 2016
Responding to Paul Ryan, who has tweeted, "We pray for those brutally attacked in Orlando," Igor Volsky tweets,
We pray you will have the courage to stand up to @NRA and start national conversation about limiting access to guns https://t.co/aEq1YJw3pd— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) June 12, 2016
Journalist just asked FBI agent how authorities made the jump from "hate crime" to domestic terrorism so quickly. Question dodged.— Allison Kilkenny (@allisonkilkenny) June 12, 2016
Guns are extremely efficient at doing the only thing they've been created to do, which is kill.#50Dead— Trymaine Lee (@trymainelee) June 12, 2016
America has 4.4% of the world's population, but almost half of the civilian-owned guns: https://t.co/0JGPX4sCmr pic.twitter.com/OR1HZIVrUM— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 12, 2016
Canada has had 8 mass shootings in 20 years. The US has had 7 since Monday.— Rachel West (@rachel_is_here) June 12, 2016
We call on the clergy - pastors, rabbis, imams - to examine their own hands for evidence of blood. #endhomophobia https://t.co/EGsTeYuiN9— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) June 12, 2016
Heartbroken over Orlando. #PrayforGunControl and #EndHomophobia. Spare us all false piety. #GunControlNow— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) June 12, 2016
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