"The senior law enforcement source told The Daily Beast that Mateen was born in New York and was married for a time to a woman from New Jersey.
That woman told the Washington Post that he repeatedly abused her during their marriage, which lasted from April 2009 to July 2011.
“He was not a stable person,” the ex-wife said. “He beat me. He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn’t finished or something like that.”
Mateen's parent are from Afghanistan but he was not very religious, she said, adding that he "seemed like a normal human being."
~The DAILY BEAST
According to the report, at the link below, by Evan Perez, FBI had investigated this man in the past. He was known to have extremist ties. But he wasn't the central focus of the investigations. His name simply came up.
However, he was working as a private security guard for a company that has contracts to protect federal buildings near the area where he lives, Fort Pierce, Florida. The fact that he had this job allowed him to buy guns, within the last few weeks, with minimal questions asked.
Source CNN
I wonder if the people sitting in NRA Headquarters are still mocking President Obama almost coming to tears when he couldn't get gun legislation past Congress -- after two dozen children were shot, after those college girls were shot, after those Sikhs in the temple were shot, after that girl that performed at his Inauguration, Hadiya Pendleton was shot.
I don't know if this could have been prevented by gun control. But I know for sure it could have been made a hell of a lot harder but for some game playing in Washington D.C.
Part of the reason we couldn't get any real gun legislation after Sandy Hook was due to the republicans pact to not let this President, who happens to be black, was because of a republican congress that vowed to not let the President get anything past them.
These people won't even let him staff the Supreme Court. It's starting to look like the Supreme Court is going to remain incomplete for a full year. (And I will be checking to see if this has happened to a white president before--for THIS LONG.)
But this time, like last time and the time before that, lack of gun control is 90% about what it's always about --the power of gun lobbyists and the NRA.
And now my wondering has taken me even further down the rabbit hole. Is it possible that even the FBI is afraid of the NRA? With all the powers the federal government got under President Bush, after 9/11, to invade our privacy on the left, on the right, and in the center-- the FBI didn't get the right to limit someone's second amendment rights? Not even someone with "extremist ties?"
Are the gun lobby and the NRA that powerful?
Some gun enthusiasts I've spoken to know that much longer waiting periods are reasonable. So it's time for the non-crazy gun lovers to create another gun organization in answer to the NRA. Because 50 gay people shouldn't be dead right now, not at the end of an gun you can just go to the store and buy more easily than you can buy a car.
The only thing that might explain, to a reasonable person, why the FBI doesn't have the right to remove a person's second amend rights -- now that our privacy is all but gone -- would be if they were conducting an undercover investigation of Mateen.
But even that's beside the point.
I still want to know if the FBI has the power to take away the second Amendment rights of a suspected terrorist, even temporarily. How could that be less important than the ability to spy on everybody at will?
President Obama's Speech On Gun Control and Sandy Hook from
Educational: GUNNED DOWN: THE POWER OF THE NRA from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/gunned-down/
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