The man's motivations for going into a gay nightclub and shooting the place up are not yet clear. His father says he was not religiously motivated. That he hated homosexuals. But he called 9-1-1 and pledged allegiance to ISIS just before he started shooting. In my opinion, which of those two it was really doesn't matter because the root cause of either one is the same thing: anger.
This man was clearly emotionally unstable. If you take the most unstable person ever and give them a way to regulate their emotions, they will no longer be unstable. It's not about ISIS, homosexuals, or any other thing under the sun. It's about his inability to process his emotions. So the politicians want to build walls (terrible idea) or take away guns (good idea, but not just because of this event) when they should be funding emotional health classes in elementary schools.
People simply don't know how to take good care of their inner workings. If you want to take care of your brain, what do you do? You take a college course, or do a cross-word puzzle or have a stimulating discussion. If you want to take care of your body, what do you do? You exercise and/or you eat better. What do you do if you want to take care of your emotions? NOBODY KNOWS! Well, I do. You build a connection to your emotions, so that when something causes emotion, you allow yourself to feel it and express it instead of repressing it. If you can do that, the emotion never builds up and we don't see you on the nightly news. So, if you are really sick of these events, start spreading the word about emotional health.
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