ORLANDO MASSACRE TRUMPS EVERY PREVIOUS MASS SHOOTING IN THESE UNITED STATES AND GIVES NEW FODDER TO TRUMP THE DUMPSTER

It was shocking, horrible, unimaginable.

The slaughter of 49 people - and 50 more wounded - by a 'lone  gunman ' late on a Saturday night in a night club in Orlando, Florida left us all stunned and shocked, and deeply saddened  early on a Sunday morning.

Why, what, who, where, the basic questions of journalism tumbled out over the following agonizing hours to follow as families and friends and an entire nation waited to see what the hell was really happening here.

Alas, we now have the what, who, where which have filtered out through he first hours of the investigation, but we have no why.

We have the portrait of a deeply disturbed shooter -aren't they all - who took his wrath out on a roomful of people partying hardy in the Pulse  nightclub in Orlando.

His wrath, apparently was being wreaked upon people he hated.  Gays, Blacks, Jews, Women.

All of this information from the news reports accumulated in the hours after the murders.

And we know now, that he was a woman-beating, angry, homophobic bigot who, after gunning down dozens of people, took more people hostage and then called the police to proclaim he was...ISIS.

Puleease.

And back to the why.

And the why goes to the question of how do we classify this latest infamy done supposedly in the name of ISIS.

Well, we can take a cue from President Barack Obama's statement, "This was an act of terror and hate."

We classify this as a hate crime elevated to the act of terrorism which it most certainly was.

Of course ISIS has happily declared they will take credit for any nut case who shoots up a room filled with Americans, but the fact is they had nothing to do with it.

This was the work of a 'lone wolf' guy who, by the way had frequented the very club he shot up, and according to other recent reports,  culled from people who knew him well and partied with him...was himself a self-hating closeted gay.

There you go, just what we need.

Now, anybody who has a love life gone awry, or a tough domestic situation or a giant inferiority complex  can shoot up a bunch of Americans and yell out, " ISIS made me do it."

Which will make ISIS very happy, thank you.

And will make the Dumpster (Donald Trump) equally happy and feel free to go on one of his xenophobic rants.

Before we fire up the nuclear subs and such, we need to evaluate which of these threats are real, and which are being used by people who obviously fell through the cracks of mental health checks.

And we need to do it before some xenophobic, race-baiting, New York bombastic huckster is elected to be the leader of the whole world by playing upon all of these fears.

And our heart is heavy today, along with thousands of  Tampa people who love and cherish our own LBGT community.

And we can only hope that this horrible incident will bring us closer together, and live in love.