From left to right: Suspected Orlando shooter Omar Mateen; San Bernardino killer Tafsheen Malik; Fort Hood shooter Hasan Nidal. That debate, dating back to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is still ongoing in the United States. The gunman who killed at least 50 people in a shooting rampage at an Orlando nightclub has been identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen. Orlando shooter Omar Mateen used an AR-15 style rifle to kill at least 50 people, officials say. The rampage echoed several recent high-profile terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in which extremist sympathizers used firearms instead of explosives, once a terrorism staple.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2016 22:16 UTC