Premier Wynne spoke to a gathering near Church and Wellesley Streets last night at a vigil remembering the dead and injured in the attack in Orlando Florida Saturday night. The attack was on an LGBT meeting place and the assumption seems reasonable that the attacker, Omar Mateen, was driven by homophobia fuelling homicidal conduct. The premier urged those present to love one another and continue to take pride. She said pride events are necessary because of such outrages. Mateen is said by police to have spoken only about an allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call made during or after the killings. ISIS kills without compunction for many routinely stated reasons. Some say the origin of its violence may be found not in conventional reasons but rather the use of hatred to top-up the self-esteem of the inadequate.
