Stop people with a history of violence, mental health problems and who appear on FBI terrorism watch lists from buying assault rifles and firearms would probably be a start.

Abso fcukin lutley correct

Whilst the individual was clearly inspired by IS, and radical Islam, he wasn't actually a member of any terrorist group or affiliation. In fact it seems he may well have not been all that much of a radical Muslim either, given he was a regular at Pulse and had been known to get drunk there, and used a gay dating app.

Thats hair splitting, just because you are not a player doesn't mean you can't be a fan and try to emulate your hero's. As is the case every Sunday morning when parks the country wide full of beer bellied 40 some-things who "could have gone pro".
After all is not the definition of inspired the bedrock of radicalisation "to make someone feel that they want to do something and can do it:"

Also, it seems that he had a history of domestic violence, showed clear signs of bi-polar disorder. He'd also been investigated by the FBI as a suspected terrorist, and cleared. Twice I believe.

All that shows is that he was violent coward from the offs.

Something you tend to see in spree shootings, is mentally unravelled people, associating themselves to extremist agendas, that effectively justify their rage. Neo-Nazism, nihilism and fundamentalism often appeal to people who have experienced a psychotic episode because it provides proof that their paranoia and delusions are not false, and offers a 'solution'.

Delete Solution insert excuse. My argument has always been that this particular brand of sky fairy and its followers are abhorrent, his own father tries to deflect the blame away onto the night club for not strip searching people on a night out the pr1ck.

The attack bears far more similarity to other Spree shootings in the US, than to terrorism. The idea of the 'lone wolf' terrorist, has become a convenient means of explaining away what are very serious issues in the US around hate, violence, guns, mental health and race.

I think your under estimating the religious angle here, that nigt club was targeted by a man who made a phone call claiming it was all for Allah etc etc then killed in cold blood 49 Gay people who are not supposed to exist in his version of god. Sad backward fcking idiots.

Its no more an act of terrorism than the Columbine shootings were.

I think your wrong there.

Its pretty clear that he 'self identified' to IS, rather than was actually part of it (even is declaration of support was incorrectly presented.

It was still presented and used as the driving force behind the attack, to dismiss it is sticking head in sand time.

But for the US, it'll be easier to deal with this as Terrorism.

why ? 49 dead is 49 dead whatever the reason.

Its also interesting how the media have focused on projecting this attack as being 'the second worst terrorist attack' on the US.

It kind of seems very dismissive of the fact that McVey killed 169 and injured several hundreds, as part of a Christian Militia attack on the US government infrastructure.

Any thoughts on Owen Jones's strop on sky because the presenters refused to accept that it was a homophobic attack?

Any thoughts on Owen Jones's strop on sky because the presenters refused to accept that it was a homophobic attack?

Yes. We are battling an idea, not an organisation in the traditional sense. It often comes down to identification with a particular ideology.

We must cut the head off(ironically)this many tentacled beast and hope it dies.

What we can't do is live in denial about the spread of this cancer among certain sections of the population. We can't keep blaming it on mental health and somehow disassociating it from radical Islam. It is the common denominator. If radical Islam ceases to exist then this particular problem goes away.
Then we await the next group of nutters to rear their heads.

Any thoughts on Owen Jones's strop on sky because the presenters refused to accept that it was a homophobic attack?