The ownership of firearms, including military grade, would be encouraged for all Southern citizens in order to protect the public from such incidents as occurred overnight in Orland, Florida," Hill wrote in a statement posted to the LOS website.
"In a free & independent South, Islam would be banned, Muslims deported, and all mosques closed down. Michael Hill, president of the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS), a group that for years has played with fantasies of becoming a paramilitary organization, voiced support for deporting Muslims and arming citizens in response. border with Mexico, as well as ban Muslims from entering the United States. The response also focused heavily on attacking Muslim immigrants –– a prevalent theme in the midst of a presidential campaign punctuated by calls to build a wall on the U.S. Crowe added, “egardless of the shooter's motives, I'm hoping for as many casualties as possible,”Īndrew Anglin, editor and publisher of the racist website Daily Stormer, also joined in, writing on his website, “Let this be the start of the terrorist/f- civil war." “I don't know anything about the motives or the shooter at this point, but considering how violent f- are, it wouldn't surprise me if its a disgruntled f- who's butt buddy went into the restroom with a different f-," a user named “Crowe” wrote on the Vanguard News Network forum just hours after the shooting. Within hours of the shooting, the racist right responded with attacks on the LGBT community and immigrants. It was a place of solidarity and empowerment, where people have come together to raise awareness, to speak their minds and to advocate for their civil rights." The place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub. "The shooter targeted a night club where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing, and to live.
"This was an act of terror and an act of hate," President Obama said in remarks delivered on Sunday. The shooting turned quickly into a hostage situation until police, using an armed vehicle, assaulted the club and killed Mateen. Police say Mateen entered Pulse nightclub around 2 a.m., exchanged fire with an off-duty police officer working security at the club, then began shooting wildly into the crowd. Though according to reports, the incident started inside the establishment around 4 a.m. According to the Puerto Vallarta Daily News, the two unidentified men were attacked outside Paco’s Ranch in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on early Tuesday morning. law enforcement officials identified the shooter as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen who worked as a security guard and had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State before the attack. Two men were fatally shot outside one of Puerto Vallarta’s most popular gay bars. More information will be included as it becomes available.Ī gunman carrying an assault rifle and a handgun stormed an Orlando, Fla., crowded bar early on Sunday and killed at least 50 people in what has become the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. Editors' Note: This post has been updated.