Is it Something in the Water?
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25812)
Pikeville, North Carolina
June 12, 2016 5:24am CST
What in the world is going on in Orlando, Florida? First, a 27 year-old man carries out a planned attack on young Christina Grimmie, shooting her to death before killing himself. Then, last night, there is another shooting at the Olrando nightclub, Pulse.
This second shooting resulted in multiple injuries and the bomb squad was even called in.
What is going on down there in Orlando?
Is it something in the water?
Or is it something in the music?
Were these random, unconnected acts?
Or is there some kind of nefarious conspiracy to terrorize the city underway?
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20 responses
@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
12 Jun 16
This is a very sad world we live in. The end of times are very near, people should start getting on their knees and praying. I will be praying for the families of the loved ones lost.
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@akalinus (40647)
• United States
12 Jun 16
This morning, I got a text from someone worried about people who went to the nightclub.They begged to know if they were okay. I usually don't answer texts that end up on my number by mistake, but texted them back to say they had a wrong number. I knew they were worried, there were two from the same number.
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@Daljinder (23233)
• Bangalore, India
12 Jun 16
@DWDavis Oh yeah! Orlando is "The Theme Park Capital of the world", isn't it? A kind of a back bone of Florida's tourism industry.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
12 Jun 16
There are crazies all over, nothing to do with the water, the sunshine, darkness...press conference a while ago - said no connection between the two incidents. It may turn out to be terrorism and not domestic kinds.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
12 Jun 16
@DWDavis It was and still is a gay nightclub. Maybe a lover who got dumped...there are a million 'what if's'.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
12 Jun 16
World wide there has been a devaluation of life, a loss of respect for the lives of others, and a growing feeling among the disaffected and disenfranchised that violence is somehow the way to right the wrongs done them, real or imagined. Here in the US our politicians and candidates are making the situation worse by pitting the poor against the working class and the working class against the rich, or, by pitting the different races and ethnic groups against each other.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
12 Jun 16
@pgntwo If we could do away with professional politicians and establish a citizen government where people from ordinary life would take turns in the legislature, like jury duty, instead of being elected I think things would improve dramatically.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
12 Jun 16
deep investigation should answer what is the cause of all this crime in Florida.
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@ronc510 (479)
• Philippines
13 Jun 16
You can blame the New world order (Obama, and other Nato countries) desire to "intermingle countries like the US or Europe" to have a population of every corner of the world, whether or not they have the same values.
Each of us have a different value system that can prevent us from assimilating no matter how long we stay in a particular country.
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@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
13 Jun 16
I think it's not a terrorism, or the music, it must something happen to the person itself ... but the two bad situation meet on the same place, that makes it sound worst, deep condolences 
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
13 Jun 16
After writing (on another site) about the shooting that took the life of Christina Grimmie, the news of what happened at 'Pulse' hit. It was just too much to write more about the terrible things happening-
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@Daljinder (23233)
• Bangalore, India
12 Jun 16
I think people are just losing patience. Stress of lives make them aggressive when they can't handle it. Road rage is an example of that.
This may be the reason people are turning violent these days.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
12 Jun 16
I think you are right, and I think our political leaders are contributing to that, especially here in the US. Both major parties are trying to turn people against each other. The Democrats are turning people against anyone who has more money than them and the Republicans are turning people against anyone who is different from them.
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@carportsndverandahs (14)
• Australia
13 Jun 16
There is surely something in the water as elections are hot this time.
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@GardenGerty (157691)
• United States
13 Jun 16
I think it is all random. Honestly there are more people living there, and therefore more crime. There may also be more good things that we do not hear about, cause if it is not sensational, it does not make the news. Not to make light of either notorious crimes.
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@snowy22315 (170691)
• United States
12 Jun 16
I dont know, but I think I will stay far away!
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
12 Jun 16
I think shooting deaths are really escalating all over the country @DWDavis . I think it's the water and the food. Everybody's brain cells are being shorted out.
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
13 Jun 16
I don't know what's going on but it's scary. Sending prayers to all the families tonight. :-(
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
13 Jun 16
I don't know, but I really, really hate violence that is going on.
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