President Barack Obama called the carnage an act of hate and an act of terror on Sunday. But, the shooting could play on latent fears about another 9/11 terrorist strike that Trump has clearly spotted and is trying to exploit. Read | America’s favourite gun: AR-15 used by Orlando shooter has bloody historyHis victims: All guests at Pulse on a designated Latin night -- which is why victims were mostly Hispanics. Minutes before Omar Mateen opened fire with his fast-loading AR-15 assault rifle, he called 911 -- a lifeline for Americans in distress -- to profess allegiance to Islamic State’s Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Or, was it a mix of both —Obama described the massacre as both an act of hate and an act of terror.

Source: Hindustan Times June 14, 2016 06:45 UTC