“You can draw a straight line from the false and vile rhetoric about LGBTQ people spread by extremists and amplified across social media, to the nearly 300 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced this year, to the dozens of attacks on our community like this one,”
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This is terror.
The despicable person that committed this attack is a terrorist and he is not a "lone wolf" .
Although it seems he acted alone , others share moral responsibility , those that use their political or social standing that affords them a bully pulpit to spread or boost anti-lgbtq propaganda that leads to violence, from pedestrian hate speech to mass murder.