"Exactly five years ago, Omar Mateen entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where he killed 49 people and wounded 53 others.
AP now reports that Biden plans to name the nightclub as a national memorial standing for all targeted gay victims of gun violence – which outraged reporter Glenn Greenwald, who believes in facts.
We’ve known for years now why Mateen shot up the Pulse nightclub: He was committing a religious jihad. His goal was to shoot up a nightclub – any nightclub – as revenge for American airstrikes in Syria and Iraq. Facts make it clear that he didn’t target Pulse because it was a gay nightclub; he targeted it because it was a crowded nightclub.
Nevertheless, that’s not how either the Democrats or the media (but I repeat myself) are selling the decision to establish Pulse as a memorial:
President Joe Biden said on the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that he will sign a bill naming the site as a national memorial...“We must drive out hate and inequities that contribute to the epidemic of violence and murder against transgender women — especially transgender women of color,” Biden said.
The first problem with that statement is that there is no epidemic of violence against Black men who subscribe to the belief that they are, in fact, women. The leftist media would have you believe that there is (Axios says that 28 of these poor creatures have been murdered this year already) but the fact is that’s one week’s worth of murders in Democrat cities across America. Every one of those 28 deaths is tragic but, again, it’s not a Holocaust.
The second problem is that, as I noted, Mateen didn’t shoot up the Pulse because it was gay...Read all.
