[Opinionated Blowhard]

distracting officials with a beguiling charm, a feigned stupidity or some other tactic.

The officials who were fooled by this psychopath need to be fired. Their bosses need to be fired.

[IC Ken]

Re>sympathizers who have no direct links

What hogwash. His dad was Taliban and still is. Also visited the Whitehut. This shooter had direct ties to Obama.

[rellimpank]

—looks like an interesting piece, but I can’t find a way past the paywall—

[Lurkinanloomin]

And some people believe he would have been eligible to run for President in 6 years.

Children of foreign nationals are NOT natural born citizens.

[gigster]

...once threatened to shoot partygoers at a barbecue when pork, which is forbidden to Muslims, touched his hamburger. So I guess Bacon Cheeseburgers were not at the top of his Food Pyramid, like they are on mine.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Mateen didn’t evolve he was raised in this mindset. I’ll bet he heard about the evil white infidels from Pops on a daily basis.

[Pollster1]

I’m surprised that, as a member of the religion of peace, he was not corrected by his fellow Muslims and guided toward the productive jihad (struggle) toward universal peace, joy, and love that defines all of Islam.

[YogicCowboy]

He became radicalized offline... in the Mateen family.