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By Darren Tendler (editor of the soon to be released SPECTRUM magazine).
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American Muslim of Afghan descent, murdered 49 people and injured 53 others at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando, Florida, before he was shot and killed by police.
This was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunmen in the modern history of the United States of America.
It was the largest mass killing of LGBT+ people in the Western world since the Holocaust.
It was the deadliest terrorist attack in the USA since the 2001 September 11 attacks.
