transcript redactions from Orlando shooting

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(06-23-2016, 02:25 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: What pushes the person is an excuse, or maybe better stated, a symptom of the actual cause. I acknowledge the hostile environment. I know it's there. Point is, it's too easy, and doesn't get to the issue of the mental illness, to blame X. 

It's like treating skin lesions that are caused by cancer or HIV. There's a point to it, but it's not the cause of the lesions. 

Blanket "terrorism" isn't quite so easy. Certainly, it needs to be confronted but all terrorism isn't committed for one fact. Sometimes it's "because of gays", sometimes it's "because you bombed/occupy my country", sometimes it's "because so and so is imprisoned", sometimes it's "because you don't believe what i believe". 

And there is something in there where the driving force is an ideology. Sometimes that's due to a mental illness, sometimes that's due to...for lack of a better term...brainwashing (perversion fits in there too). 

Religion is blamed because of the atrocity, and the amount of it. To me, it's just an easy excuse. 

I don't disagree that having a screw lose is what caused his homophobia to manifest as a massacre and not getting on thebengalsboard.com and calling all gay people "mentally ill" and "perverts", but I just said we can address all issues simultaneously. What's wrong with also addressing the fact that many are trying to create a hostile environment for gay people in this country?