Either way, with just 148 days until the presidential election, the campaign just got redefined. It’s been nearly two years since the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people widely believed to be an act of aggression against. Orlando police tweeted, 'The shooter inside the nightclub is dead,' referring to Pulse Nightclub, which bills itself on its website as 'Orlando's Premier Gay Night Club. Clinton's supporters will see her statements as signs of experience and a judicious nature her foes will see naivety and an inability to properly defend the country. ORLANDO A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire inside a crowded gay bar and dance club here early Sunday, leaving 49 people dead and 53 injured in the deadliest mass. To his critics, Trump's tweets look like knee-jerk self-adulation to his supporters, they're a show of strength. Whether his successor does something is the open question. The shooting, which took place at Pulse Orlando, a nightclub that describes itself as the 'hottest gay bar in Orlando,' left an additional 53 people injured. "To actively do nothing is a decision as well." "We have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be," President Obama said. In a 9-1-1 call made shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the. Orlando Police officers shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff. This is hardly the first time the President has had to make such a speech following a deadly shooting spree on US soil-by one count it's the 20th, in fact-and his words hinted at a deep weariness at Congress's refusal to pass gun control legislation. On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old man, killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Law enforcement officials report that Mateen called 911 to declare his allegiance to ISIS before carrying out the attack. In such an attack, the perpetrator commits violence in ISIS' name without any organizational ties to the group. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, though signs point to a "lone wolf attack," a distributed approach to terrorism that ISIS has long encouraged. A gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in an attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday. However, they cautioned that there is no evidence of a broader plot or that the suspect had ties to any terrorist organizations, according to The New York Times. A homophobic ISIS sympathizer killed at least 50 people and wounded 53 others during a rampage at a gay nightclub in Florida early Sunday marking the country’s deadliest mass shooting. Lucie, Florida, and called the shooting an act of terrorism. In his remarks, President Obama said that investigators have reached "no definitive judgement on the precise motivations of the killer" but that the FBI was investigating the attack, which killed 50 people at a gay club, as an act of terror.įederal officials identified the killer as a 29-year-old US citizen living in Port St.