Amidst the recent tragedy in Orlando, where one individual went on a shooting spree, claiming 49 lives and wounding countless others, comes a seemingly unusual source of compassion. Ask most Americans which fast food chain comes to mind when the phrase “anti-gay” is uttered, and a common response would be Chick-Fil-A. Chick-Fil-A became a hotbed…
Comedian and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane believes he has the solution to prevent more tragedies like the one in Orlando. He believes a ban on automatic weapons would save lives. There is only one problem with MacFarlane’s plea: there has been a ban on sales and transfers on automatic weapons in the United States…
By Russ Read One of the first witnesses interviewed after the shooting in Orlando Sunday said he and another witness held closed a small exit door in an apparent attempt to prevent the shooter from following their group into an alleyway. Luis Burbano, an actor based in Orlando, explained the scene of the crime in…
By Blake Neff Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was a club regular who also used the gay dating app Jack’d, it emerged late Monday. Kevin West, another regular at Pulse, told the Los Angeles Times that Mateen frequently messaged him on Jack’d for about a year leading up to Sunday’s attack, in which the terrorist killed 49 people…
In the wake of the terrible tragedy in Orlando that rocked our nation this weekend, laymen and leaders alike spoke out on news and social media. For some, the massacre that claimed the lives of 50 people attending an LGBT event at the Pulse Nightclub was the perfect opportunity to push their own political agenda….
By Amber Randall A LGBTQ group dedicated to the legal and safe use of firearms for the LGBTQ community put out a press release Sunday that urged people to focus on the Orlando shooter’s heinous actions and not on guns as the problem. Oman Mir Seddique Mateen killed 49 people in a shooting at a gay…
The bodies had hardly cooled in Orlando before the usual suspects were clamoring for harsher measures to control guns in the United States. President Obama, Democratic members of Congress, and media elites have been pushing the familiar solution of severely restricting or banning certain types of firearms. “This massacre is therefore a further reminder of…
By Blake Neff In an unusual political statement following the Orlando shooting, the cast of the hit musical Hamilton is apparently planning to drop muskets from its Sunday night performance for the Tony Awards. The move was announced by Michael Paulson, theater reporter for The New York Times. Two songs from the musical, “History Has Its Eyes On…
By Kevin Daley U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy blamed Congress for Sunday’s terrorist attack at a nightclub in Orlando which left 50 people dead and 53 injured. “This phenomenon of near constant mass shootings happens only in America – and no place else,” he said in a statement. “Congress has become complicit in these murders by its…
You’ll hear the left scream about cakes that won’t be baked or bathrooms that won’t be opened to members of our community, but when it comes to radical Islam and the threat it poses to free Western Society you don’t hear their outrage. That’s because it isn’t there. They have sacrificed their sanity on the…