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It was a lack of resistance and an extremely long period of time he was uncontested that made the Orlando terrorist attack so deadly, not the choice of gun.
Orlando shooting of 2016, also called Pulse nightclub shooting, mass shooting that took place at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016, and left 49 people dead and more than 50 wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history up to that time. The gunman, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, was a U.S. citizen born in Queens, New York, to Afghan parents. In May 2013 the Federal Bureau of Investigation declared Mateen to be “a person of interest” and launched a preliminary investigation of him after he told coworkers at a security
Orlando Police Department officials say that if the Pulse shooting happened today, the response would be different. During the Pulse nightclub shooting, the off-duty police officer working that night fired
How Police Tactics, Gear Have Changed In The Five Years Since Pulse