Do you know where his father was born ? Did you know he supported the taliban ? Were u aware that he was very anti lgbt ?
At a young age, Mateen displayed an interest in violence, the
Associated Press and
The Washington Post reported. For his elementary and middle school education, he attended classes in
St. Lucie County, Florida. While at Mariposa Elementary School, a
third grade teacher wrote that Mateen was "very active ... constantly moving, verbally abusive, rude, aggressive ... much talk about violence & sex ... hands all over the place – on other children, in his mouth". In the
seventh grade, Mateen was moved to a separate class with the purpose of avoiding "conflicts with other students" and suffered from poor scholarly performance due to "many instances of behavioral problems".
A classmate at Mariposa said that Mateen was a
bully, disrespectful to girls and acted like he was better than his classmates. Another classmate reported that
Mateen was bullied at school because of his weight and his Afghan heritage. His parents were described as "dismissive" of his poor behavior while his father "had a reputation for being disrespectful of female teachers and dismissive of complaints about his son".
[12] In 1999, while Mateen was in the eighth grade, his teacher sent a letter to his father regarding an "attitude and
inability to show self-control".
classmates told
The Washington Post that Mateen cheered in support of
the hijackers during the
September 11 attacks and that he stated that
Osama bin Laden was his uncle who taught him how to shoot
AK-47s, all of this before knowing that bin Laden was the mastermind of the attacks.
[12][13][16] After his outburst, Mateen's father arrived at the school to pick him up and slapped him in the face, with Mateen later being suspended for five days after the incident.
[12][13] Soon after the September 11 attacks, repeatedly "he shocked other students on his school bus by imitating an exploding plane", reported
The New York Times.
[17]
Mateen visited Saudi Arabia for an eight-day trip in 2011 and a ten-day trip in 2012. The latter was organized by the Islamic Center at New York University. It included twelve New York City police officers and groups from Columbia and Yale and visited Mecca and Medina.[43][44] Around these times, he went to the United Arab Emirates.[45][46] FBI Director James Comey said Saudi officials helped investigate Mateen's trips.[47] In June 2016, the House Intelligence Committee said that U.S. investigators "are searching for details about the Saudi Arabia trips." \
he obviously had ties to terrorist organizations and he managed to get a gun.
why we should have serious gun restrictions waiting process!
Mateen held an active
concealed carry permit and an
armed security guard license.
[32][33] He passed a multiple choice psychological test and Dr. Syed Shafeeq Rahman, who had close ties with Mateen's family, gave him a medical clearance.
[13] It was also noted that Mateen had no adult criminal record.
[34] According to licensing records, he was a proficient shooter who scored at or above the 98th
percentile with a
9mm semiautomatic pistol.
[35]