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The Unholy Trinity

Another day, another shooting in US. This time it wasn't a crazy white man. This time it was a second generation immigrant from Afghanistan. He also happened to have pledged allegiance to ISIS right before the attack. Politically correct people are calling him self radicalised. Sounds similar to spontaneous combustion.
It is believed he attacked the club because it was a LGBT club.  Religious fanatics term homosexuality as unnatural. The only thing unnatural about the lives of the people who died in that club, was not their sexual orientation, but that their parents will have to bury/cremate them. No parent should have to face that.

A mad man, religion and gun - The UnHoly Trinity. 
Was it the man that killed these people, or the religion that made him hate this community or the easily obtainable gun that ripped through the living in a flash.

A Mad Man & Religion
Who can say if the religion fed the madness or the mad man found the crazy in the religion. One thing is for sure, there are plenty of extremists in every religion, but there's only one which is an active breeding ground for organised terrorism. Islam has become the real world's Lord Voldermort (uncannily he also had a fascination with getting rid of muggles-kaafir?). The one that cannot be named, for fear ? What else can it be, when a man who pledges to ISIS, kills people, then ISIS claims responsibility and still the President of that nation comes out and says it had nothing to do with religion. You're just paving the way for Trump, Mr President. Seriously, God Bless America. For every Islamic terrorist, there might me thousands who are peaceful yet there are several who approve of such violence. Unless you acknowledge this problem, there is no real solution. You can kill ISIS members with your bombs, not their ideology because it's available in print as the Ultimate Rule Book. Hydra has many heads.

The 3rd ugly head, Guns.
A man who was under FBI radar, could buy a gun legally. A wife beater could buy a gun legally. If you find nothing wrong with these statements, then I suggest, you go back in time and live in the Wild Wild West or hope for an apocalypse in your lifetime or take your pick of a city with highest crime rates and head there with your gun. Better still build a separate city, where law & order would not be government's responsibility. Why should it be, when you have your guns. Someone rear ended your car, bam, should not be allowed to drive. Then you can truly live in a constant fear of the unknown threat.
Unless you intend to carry your gun on you all the time, it probably will not save your life.

There's another kind of argument that goes around, if not guns, then something else. I agree to it. I think this is what happens in India. Think about all the acid victims, if their perpetrators had access to guns. Or think about the several riots that took place, now replace hockey bats, knives with guns. Give our petty thieves guns. That's what they call Jungle Raj. There's a reason people hijack planes at gun point and not pointing knives.
Guns were made to kill people not to protect them.

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