#Omar Mateen

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Now draw Omar and Brendon having gay sex 🙏🙏

First time drawin omar

Fakebody tumblr dont murk me again….

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happy birthday

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Mira Lazine at LGBTQ Nation:

The Christian group Liberty Counsel, an SPLC-designated hate group, is using the 2016 shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, to promote conversion therapy, calling the shooting the “Great Redemption.” The 2016 shooting in the LGBTQ+ nightclub left 49 people dead. In a blog post published earlier this week, the organization describes the experiences of Pulse survivor Angel Colon, where they claim “our beautiful Savior both rescued and redeemed Angel that night.” “Angel has a ministry helping lead people out of the LGBTQ lifestyle. But that ministry is now at risk, thanks to city and state bans on Christian change counseling, as well as federal legislation that seeks to ban this lifesaving practice and ministries like Angel’s permanently” This refers to the group Fearless Identity, founded alongside fellow survivor Luis Javier Ruiz. It seeks to promote LGBTQ+ individuals embracing conversion therapy and leaving the community behind.

Liberty Counsel does not mention how Colon admitted already being conflicted about his identity before the shooting. The post describes the shooting from Colon’s perspective in great detail, saying shooter Omar Mateen “proceeded [to hunt] down bar patrons like ducks in a pen.” It then quotes an interview with Colon where he says, “I was petrified knowing I was next. I heard the shooter behind me, gauging his next move. That’s when I asked the Lord for forgiveness, to forgive me for failing Him, for turning my back on Him. I wanted to be at peace with God, but at that moment, my prayer changed to prophecy.” He continued, “I promised Him I would worship Him for the rest of my days. The very moment I said, ‘amen,’ I felt the bullet. Heat swelled through my abdomen, and I was certain I was dead. But when I opened my eyes, I knew the Lord spared me.”

[...] While the city was still mourning the victims of the attack, Colon and Ruiz set up a “Freedom March” five minutes away from the nightclub to encourage people to “overcome” being gay and trans. They wanted to “bring hope of deliverance to the LGBTQ community and point them toward Christ,” as Colon said to PinkNews. Ruiz and Colon claim that neither of them support conversion therapy and that they’re simply supporting people in their individual decisions to seek change. “We are not at all advocates for conversion therapy or shock therapy,” Ruiz said to NBC News. “We stand with the gay community, and our main message is about falling in love with Jesus, but if an LGBTQ person wanted to talk to a pastor or counselor, that’s a whole different story.”

Anti-LGBTQ+ extremist hate group Liberty Counsel has called the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting the “Great Redemption” in a blog post detailing Pulse survivor Angel Colon’s turn towards ex-gay advocacy by founding pro-conversion therapy group Fearless Identity with fellow ex-gay Pulse survivor Luis Javier Ruiz.

The post decried the Equality Act and bans on the medically unsound practice of “ex-gay” conversion therapy, and used the homophobic dogwhistle term “homosexual lifestyle” to describe Colon and Ruiz’s experiences.

See Also:

The Advocate: Two Pulse survivors are now 'ex-gays' running a conversion therapy organization

PinkNews: Christian group uses Pulse shooting anniversary to promote conversion therapy

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Cheirinho de Omar

Cheirinho de Omar Mateen entrando na balada 🍸🪩💋

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Goin on screenshots spree on the prince cause we all be fangirling at the office while sad 🤣

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If you were upset by deaths at the Pulse nightclub shooting but not by deaths at the Nova Music Festival, you’re an antisemitic hypocrite.

Not that it should matter because people are people, but, oh hey, look, Pulse shooter Omar Mateen said the mass shooting was his retaliation for a U.S. airstrike that killed, among others, IS militant Abu Waheeb.

Don’t like it when radicals hate governments and use that hate to hurt your community?

Then stop your own radicalization process. Stop hating. Everyone.

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BMIs of Mass Shooters

Redoing this because:

1. The last BMI post wasn't 100% correct, sorry for that (I'm 99% sure it is now though) 2. It's been 2 months anyway, and Thanksgiving is soon, which is a holiday where people get fat 3. The previous sources linked to r*ddit

List:

Adam Lanza: 15.2

William Atchison: 15.7

Devon Erickson: 15.8

Robert Crimo III: 16.7

Brenda Spencer: 17.0

Randy Stair: 17.1 (self reported)

Dylann Roof: 17.7

Dylan Klebold: 18.1

Elliot Rodger: 18.3

Nikolas Cruz: 20.5

Salvador Ramos: 20.5

Eric Harris: 20.6

Audrey Hale: 21.9

Travis Reinking: 21.9

Connor Sturgeon: 22.5

Patrick Purdy: 22.6

Alec McKinney: 23.0

Mauricio Garcia: 23.6

Anders Breivik: 23.9 (self reported)

Devin Kelley: 25.1

Connor Betts: 26.2

Micah Johnson: 26.8

Christian Marper-Mercer: 27.2

Stephen Paddock: 27.4

Payton Gendron: 28.3

Brenton Tarrant: 31.4

Nathan Gale: 31.8

Omar Mateen: 33.5

Jeff Weise 33.9

Bruce Pardo: 34.0

Sources:

Adam Lanza: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/22/nyregion/before-newtown-shootings-adam-lanzas-mental-problems-completely-untreated-report-says.html

William Atchison: https://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/atchison,%20william_report.pdf (pg 4)

Devon Erickson: https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/18th_Courts/2019CR451/Redated%20PC_Redacted.pdf

Brenda Spencer: https://medium.com/the-wicked-truth/the-first-female-school-shooter-in-the-u-s-said-she-did-it-because-she-didnt-like-mondays-6a870c45b33a

Randy Stair: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/stair_journal_1.0.pdf (document pg 64) https://files.catbox.moe/ipv6ux.png https://files.catbox.moe/i4be6l.png (ignore him saying 127)

Robert Crimo III: https://files.catbox.moe/5q2czl.png

Dylann Roof: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DYLANN-ROOF-JAIL-RECORDS.pdf (page 1)

Dylan Klebold: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/dylan_klebold_autopsy.pdf (page 2, external examination paragraph)

Elliot Rodger: https://i.looksmax.org/attachments/2023/01/3260596_Elliot_Rodgers_autopsy_report.pdf (page 1)

Nikolas Cruz: https://files.catbox.moe/6q01z8.png

Eric Harris: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/eric_harris_autopsy.pdf (his weight was an estimation, took the center)

Audrey Hale: https://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/hale,%20audrey_report.pdf (page 3)

Travis Reinking: https://files.catbox.moe/xur5as.png

Connor Sturgeon: https://louisville-police.org/DocumentCenter/View/3643/23-103-Old-National-Bank-Shooting-Investigation---Redacted (page 33)

Patrick Purdy: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Purdy%20-%20official%20report.pdf (page 89)

Alec McKinney: https://files.catbox.moe/ujumb4.png

Anders Breivik: file:///tmp/mozilla_h0/2083-1.pdf Page 959 of manifesto

Connor Betts: https://www.scribd.com/document/517385637/Dayton-Shooting-Autopsy-Reports (page 129)

Christian Harper-Mercer: https://files.catbox.moe/obn4tl.png

Payton Gendron: https://archive.org/details/jimboboiiidiscord/pre-april-29/page/n568/mode/1up (page 569)

Brenton Tarrant: https://files.catbox.moe/4zzmfb.png

Nathan Gale: https://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/gale,%20nathan_report.pdf (page 2)

Omar Mateen: https://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/mateen,%20omar_report.pdf (page 4)

Jeff Weise: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7275159

Bruce Pardo: https://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/pardo,%20bruce_report.pdf (page 4)

Paddock/Johnson/Kelley/Ramos/Garcia: https://files.catbox.moe/5bupir.png https://files.catbox.moe/qterjs.png https://files.catbox.moe/dau3ik.png https://files.catbox.moe/0pokmb.png https://files.catbox.moe/rupq9u.png

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About that "a trans man committing a mass shooting proves trans people really are the gender they identify as" post: women have committed mass shootings too? Okay it's a lot less statistically frequent, but it happens (as the song "I Don't Like Mondays" demonstrates). It reminds me of the time TERFs on Reddit assumed the woman who shot up the YouTube HQ in 2018 was trans, and then when she turned out to be cis, someone immediately speculated she was getting justified revenge on an abusive BF who worked there (though that comment got downvoted and may have been a troll)

I took this opportunity to look more into statistics around mass shooter demographics, and interestingly, there are a lot of myths tied up in this issue.

This article looks into a few studies and databases to investigate the "90% of all mass shooters are white men" myth, and finds that in actuality, "It really depends on what type of mass shooting you’re talking about. Several of the highest-profile mass shootings in recent memory [...] were committed by white males, such as the 2017 Las Vegas attack by Stephen Paddock. But much beyond that, the stereotype breaks down; Muslim man Omar Mateen killed forty-nine people at a Florida nightclub in 2016 on behalf of a terrorism group; white male Adam Lanza killed twenty-seven people in 2012 at an elementary school, though Asian student Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two people on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007. And so on."

This article fact-checks the gender-specific claims as well, in the context of trans people, and finds that there have been more claims that shooters are trans than can be reasonably substantiated, and that even this number is overshadowed by the number of cis women who have committed mass shootings.

I bring this up because I think the first article in particular brings a lot of much-needed nuance into the issue:

"The whites-are-overrepresented-among-mass-shooters meme does serve a useful purpose in that it helps displace another myth about mass shootings: that they’re most often perpetrated by angry immigrants from travel-banned countries, and that nothing is more dangerous to America that the scourge of Islamic terrorism. … These are worthy ends, but we shouldn’t have to build another myth to reach them.”

What are we saying when we talk about these kinds of incidents this way?

What I find interesting is that in a lot of these conversations around crime, we recognize that crime is often the result of poverty. Indeed, this study finds that the number of mass shootings increases in countries that experience an increase of income inequality.

We can also often recognize that these numbers are skewed because they rely on media coverage, arrests, and criminal charges; all of which are influenced by societal bias. The first article on mass shootings notes that, "mass shootings with white victims tend to get more attention, both from journalists and those on social media, than those with victims who are people of color. This is a well-known pattern and explains why the public is quicker to react to a missing young blonde girl than a missing young black girl."

Are white mass shooters covered more because their targets- being overwhelmingly people and institutions they have ties to- are also usually white?

If "white men are overrepresented as mass shooters" means white men are particularly dangerous and must be feared, what does this imply about other demographics overrepresented in certain crime statistics? What does it mean when we find this isn't true- is there suddenly just is not an issue of white cis male violence? I would certainly disagree.

And I think this gleeful claim that "trans men are proving their gender" by committing acts of violence- again, far more rare than cis women doing the same- only plays into these issues.

Is crime the result of entitlement and privileged anger, or is it the result of a broken system failing its citizens? Are cis men committing acts of extreme violence because they are all- regardless of race- whiny pissbabies who take joy in hurting others, or is this the result of a system that teaches men they can only express emotion through anger and violence? That human connection is not for them, and that needing things makes them unworthy of manhood, love, or even life?

I'm not saying we need to coddle and woobify mass shooters. I'm asking: is this an issue we fix by fearing and hating and wishing death on whole demographics of people based on how represented they are in criminal statistics, or can we make systemic and cultural changes that meaningfully prevent this from happening in the first place?

Do we condemn groups as Bad because some of them have done violence, or do we examine the causes and work toward meaningful solutions?

Obviously, trans men and trans people in general are not in any way "overrepresented" as perpetrators in mass shooting statistics. But I think the people reveling in any new trans male shooter are making it very clear that they don't care about solving problems; they're just interested in looking for reasons to hate, fear, and condemn this specific group of people they already dislike.

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Eddie Justice's final messages to his mother serve as a chilling testament to the terror that unfolded within the confines of Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Huddled in the bathroom, Eddie sent frantic texts to his mother as Omar Mateen unleashed a senseless rampage in the early hours of June 12, 2016. Tragically, Eddie's desperate pleas for help were met with unimaginable violence as Mateen stormed into the bathroom and fatally shot him, adding to the staggering toll of 50 lives lost and over 50 others injured in the tragic massacre.

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omar mateen my trans king 😢✊✊

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RIP to the doraemon nightlight that has been serving my room for 4 years

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A major factor in the commission of murders is the concept of identity. Murder may result as the elimination of a threat to one's identity, or in rarer cases exist as the assertion of identity freedom from prosocial constraints. The establishment and management of identity is an extraordinarily complex lifetime endeavor. Many things can threaten a secure sense of identity: trauma, social interactions, sexual collisions, poverty, injury, threat and many more. Basic security is the foundation of identity, which we must contruct socially, somatically and financially to have any hope of an ideal development into a stable identity.

This is perhaps made nowhere more obvious than in the case of The Pulse Nightclub Shooting. The first essay in my book and the one the worst hate crimes ever perpetrated against the LGBTQ+ community. Omar Mateen was so insecure in his identity, he wanted to be known as a terrorist.

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More of Omar's Victims 🥀🪦⚰️

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“[Omar] Mateen married Ms Yusufiy, an estate agent whose family was originally from Uzbekistan, in April 2009, and it didn't take long for her to realise that her new husband was an abuser. In a classic pattern of controlling behaviour, he confiscated her salary and refused to allow her contact with her family; he was physically violent as well, once trying to choke her because she hadn't finished the laundry. After four months of abuse, Ms Yusufiy's parents realised what was going on, came down from New Jersey and had to physically wrest her from their son-in-law's arms as he tried to stop her leaving him.

Mateen's second wife was not so lucky. Noor Salman, whose Palestinian parents came to the US from the West Bank, was divorced after an arranged marriage that did not work out. She met Mateen on a dating site called Arab Lounge and married him at a mosque in Rodeo, California, in 2011. In another pattern familiar to experts on domestic abuse, he started attacking her when she became pregnant, punching her and threatening to hit her harder if she told anyone. After interviewing Ms Salman, the New York Times described the abuse she suffered in detail:

When [Mateen] became angry, he would start biting his lips and clenching his fists. In public, he also had a code word he used if she was doing something he didn't like. He would call her 'shar'. That was short for sharmuta - slut or whore in Arabic.

He would also pull her hair, something she has since learned he also did to his first wife. He choked her and threatened to kill her. He never said he was sorry. ‘He had no remorse,’ she said.

In this second marriage, unlike the first, Mateen had a hold over his wife: they had a child together and he threatened that he would get custody of their son if she tried to leave. On the night of the attack, she was in bed when he sent her a text message in the early hours, asking whether she knew what had happened. Hours later, the FBI came to the house and revealed that her husband was the perpetrator of the nightclub attack.

From the outset, the FBI suspected that Ms Salman knew about Mateen's plans in advance. Very unusually, in a development which exposes a failure by the American criminal justice system to understand how women are controlled by their abusers, she was charged with being her husband's accomplice and spent four months in jail awaiting trial. The prosecution case rested on a confession she signed following an interview which lasted almost twelve hours, carried out directly after the attack, when she was in a state of shock and wasn't represented by a lawyer. The FBI agents failed to tape the interview and a key prosecution claim, that Ms Salman had gone on a reconnaissance mission to the nightclub a few days before the attack, fell apart when phone records showed neither she nor her husband was anywhere near it on the day in question. She was tried on charges of obstruction of justice and of aiding and abetting her husband, a man she accused of beating, raping and imprisoning her in their home. In March 2018, not quite two years after the massacre, Ms Salman was acquitted on both counts. Like other widows of terrorists, she has been left with the task of bringing up her son on her own - and one day having to tell him why he doesn't have a father. While Mateen is rightly reviled as the perpetrator of the worst homophobic attack in American history, he was also a domestic tyrant who tried to compensate for gnawing feelings of inadequacy by beating up women in his own home.”

-Joan Smith, Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists