Sotomayor gets her "gun facts" from CNN

“Or the Pulse nightclub massacre, the second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history?” [Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor] wrote when listing examples of America’s “social system of discrimination” that “created an environment in which LGBT people were unsafe.”

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However, it was well established in the following investigation, and the trial of the shooter’s widow, that he was unaware that the nightclub was a gay club and seemed to pick the target at random after his first plan to attack Disney fell through.

“Mateen had never been to Pulse before, whether as a patron or to case the nightclub. Even prosecutors acknowledged in their closing statement that Pulse was not his original target; it was the Disney Springs shopping and entertainment complex,” the Huffington Post reported.

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