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NASW Statement on the Orlando Massacre

The nation awoke on June 12, 2016 to the worst case of a single person committing mass murder with a gun in its history.

A gunman killed 49 people and injured more than 50 at Pulse, an Orlando nightclub that serves a predominately LGBTQ clientele. Most of the victims were also Latino.

Compounding such a horrific loss of life is the fact the man who committed the murders may have been motivated by a complex mix of ISIL-inspired terrorism, anger toward American culture, bigotry, homophobia and internalized self-hatred because he may have had gay tendencies. He also had legal access to assault weapons with high capacity magazines. All of this formed a lethal combination.

http://www.socialworkblog.org/naswfoundation/2016/06/nasw-florida/

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