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Orlando Shooter Fired for Gun Joke

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After Virginia Tech shootings.

Omar Mateen, the shooter behind the massacre at an Orlando gay club was fired from the state department of corrections in 2007 for joking about brings a gun to class. Mateen made the joke after the Virginia Tech shooting. He was then hired by his last employer, G4S, who did not check on his record at the department of corrections.

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