Monday News: Lin-Manuel Miranda on “Senseless Acts of Tragedy…Hope and Love Last Longer”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 13.

• How America’s Mass Shooters Now Use Weapons of War (“Six attackers in the past year alone have struck with assault rifles and ammo designed to kill en masse.”)
• America’s gun problem, explained
• Orlando mass shooting an ‘act of terror, act of hate’ (“Some lessons about the mass shooting in Orlando are staring us in the face.”)
• Gunman who killed 50 in Orlando nightclub had pledged allegiance to ISIS
• Donald Trump’s Exploitation of Orlando (“The mouth moves and the lies pour forth. Any contrary evidence, any complexity, is foreign. Questioned on television to prove his points, faced with contrary evidence, he talks past it. Never mind all the firepower expended against isis targets, the territory gained, and the difficulty of taking back cities when ordinary civilians are used, en masse, as human shields. We are weak; we are politically correct.”)
• The latest from Orlando: No evidence yet of direct communication with IS
• Will Orlando drive us from our corners? (“The proper response to Sunday’s massacre is solidarity, not division.”)
• Tonys 2016: Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda pay tribute via sonnet to the victims of the Orlando shootings
• The strategic playing field is tilting toward Clinton (“Her decisions on how to conduct her campaign are easy compared with those confronting Trump and the Republicans.”)
• Co-worker: Omar Mateen homophobic, ‘unhinged’
• In Statement on Orlando Shooting, Trump Says “We Can’t Afford to Be Politically Correct Anymore” (That literally is nonsensical.)
• Republicans Are Erasing LGBTQ People From Their Own Tragedy
• Right-Wing Media Echo Trump’s Criticism Of Obama For Not Calling Orlando Shooting “Radical Islamic Terrorism” (“…experts and former President George W. Bush noted that using ‘radical Islam’ to define terrorism is counterproductive.”)
• Trump takes credit for ‘being right on radical Islamic terrorism’ (There’s something seriously wrong with Trump.)
• It Took Less Than 12 Hours For Trump To Blame Immigrants For Orlando Shooting
• Indiana gun nut who planned to attack Los Angeles LGBT pride has a history of criminal violence
• Virginia Tech students to hold vigil for Florida victims
• Rep. Bob Goodlatte to face a rare intraparty challenge Tuesday from Harry Griego
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: Feds should investigate Mitchell death
• Editorial: More questions about McAuliffe’s order on felons
• On Tuesday voters pick Democratic and Republican nominees for Congress in 4th District
  
• Richmond Area Muslims Issue Strong Statement Condemning Violence, Hatred
• A magnificent Monday before it turns unsettled later this week