Yeah, this is very sad, it's been the only story on CNN all day long.

Thoughts and prayers to all the affected families.

I can tell you one thing, it sure looks likely to be yet another Jihadist attack on all of us who are different than the terrorists. The tentacles of ISIS have spread all across the globe, which resulted in attacks in Paris and now Orlando. This is a crooked, seventh-century fundamentalist ideology that seeks to dominate all who oppose it. Remember we are still quite fortunate, people in Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan aren't. They deal with bombings, shootings, and honor killings. Despite the violence we have seen, we don't have to live in war zones, at least most of us don't.

Some eye witness video accounts here that I've linked to, they really brought the whole thing into personal perspective, for me at least.
First time I've cried in a while to be honest...

Here's some actual footage from outside the club during the shooting, it's pretty short though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtGv1fROSU

This is a video of SWAT taking out the shooter, recorded from the balcony of a townhouse across the street from the nightclub.
An armored vehicle was rammed into the building, then two stunn grenades were tossed through, followed by the officers all firing their weapons at once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-GQRGbcM4Q

Here's the first eye witness, the poor guy sounds totally warn out, also the video is a bit quiet so you might want to turn up your volume some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqWMnOrwPe0

This is an interview with a guy who was driving down the street when the shooting started, he ran out to help, and unfortunately seems totally ruined mentally by the experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmSE-obXm1k

Here's the one that made me cry, and I imagine I'm not the only one, either.  It's an interview with the mother of one of the people who was at the club when everything went to shit, his whereabouts and condition are still unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p1un4T2-1w

This man has a long and detailed account of the chaos inside the club it's self, and if this is actually real then he is a hero for helping to save a couple of injured people, but recently it's come to light that he's a small time actor and even has a page on IMDB, so I'm hoping against hope that this guy isn't just trying to get attention for him self.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X75iFs10g8A

This is the kind of thing that truly matters in my opinion, stuff that should actually be remembered, and not the ultimately meaningless and long worded scripted speeches by the politicians and the attention grabbing shock tactics of the extreme left and right wing media outlets that will drag on for months, who's only purpose is to farther an agenda and make money off of additional viewers anyway.

I can tell you this, the American one, as you put it dark, will have a knee jerk reaction. You can be sure of that.  Remember, it was the shooter that decided to do the crime. If someone wishes to do killing that badly, they will find away at some point. It doesn’t make it right. Don’t get me wrong. Seeing that I have to live in this country, I have to deal with any reaction the government make. Yes, it is tragic. I think that a lot of us in this country will be trying to figure out how to prevent this in the future, and or helping the family’s out.

As Dark said, I just hope there's no overreaction. The ever-widening surveillance net is built on the foundations of tragedies like this one, and the politicians will exploit it ruthlessly to that end. It just makes me sick to see the booing and hissing that always follows on the heels of "terrorism", because in reality the world's governments are just as capable of taking away our freedoms as the terrorists are. So I just hope to God that justice is done, and the responsible people are found and punished, and not that this will be yet another assault on all of the people, in the name of the few who, as has been mentioned, may even already have been under the eye of the intelligence apparatus and could have been stopped.

No words, and all that.

@Afrim and CW

How are you two different from the news media? This is a tread about the Orlando Terrorist attack and both of you try to hijack to promote your own agendas of hate against the news media?

The way I see it, both of you are no different than the news media you hate so much.

@Figment,
Which is my agenda? To destroy the media?
I'm simply putting here the information presented by the media you're loving. They say that the person had been on the FBI's radar, and they didn't took a step to cut him off. If this is true, why doesn't this media hide this information so as not to create hatred towards her and the intelligence agency?
I'm not trying to promote any type of my agenda as much as I'm caring for the life of those 52 innocent people killed.
I don't either care about who comes or goes on the government, whether Clinton or Trump will win, the reaction will be identically the same, "this terrorist act, not only has it hurt our nation, but it has strongly damaged the braveness and the freedom of our people and we must urgently do something."
When this "must do something" will be done? More and more innocent lives are being taken away.

I live 60 miles from Orlando. My friend was born there. It could have happened anywhere. Thank you to whoever posted these videos Not that I'm sure you were eager too either. But the audio on some of these was very good and for the Poor Poor Poor Mother, I cried at that one too. LGB people need the Gospel more than anything else. They don't need some Terrorist targeting them or anyone for that matter. This post just broke my hart over all.

Correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't Columbine the worst mass shooting in American history?

It isn't my permission to give, it's the original creators. I don't personally mind at all though, just for the record... I posted them here for people to see, after all.
Either way, as you aren't a for profit entity like a TV news source, than you can do what ever you like with these videos since they are in the public domain.

And yeah, your right, it wasn't so fun posting these, I felt kinda like an attention seeker, even though that's not what I was trying to do; really I just wanted to share the full impact of the situation.
I find that raw, unedited personal accounts have allot more weight behind them than what gets filtered down and presented on TV, not that that information isn't relevant, mind you, but it doesn't quite give the whole picture either, since it's often just used as a talking point.
I'm glad to help find good sources, but I wish that the situation was different.

Update:
Christopher Leinonen, the son of the mother in the video I linked to, was confirmed as being among the dead this morning.

Also, yeah, that sounds about right Ghost Rider, if a bit overly pessimistic; then again, it's also true, so...
Just allot of talk and not much action, and it's been that way ever since 9 11, when America got it's collective cherry popped and lost some of it's invincibility complex in the process.
I guess I can't really blame anyone for such a natural reaction, but it's been going on for far too long at this point. And it's continuing to cause problems even today.
It really feels as though the NATO member nations, especially those in the west are moving backwards rather than forwards on the social/geopolitical scale sometimes...
I just hope it's not as much of a slippery slope as it seems to be, and that we can collectively recover from this nosedive before we end up exactly like what the extreme right wing politicians mistakenly envision the middle east as being like.
Wouldn't that be an irony for the history books...