My thoughts and sympathies are with the families and survivors.

Lot of interesting points brought up in this thread.
Homophobic, anti- American, personal denial of his own sexuality, Media whore, geez so many choices to blame such a singularly awful atrocity on that gets repeated over and over increasingly as time goes on. I pick all of the above Monty!
Heard one commentator stating there been over 100 of these horrific events during Obama's rule vs some other number under the last administration. Almost like it was an ERA stat for a pitcher, disgusting sensationalism by the media, devalues the individuals with it's inference.
The Japanese ban is an intelligent decision to minimise the sensationalism component for certain, but really impossible to enforce over here I think. Paparatzi style media has been gaining, not losing ground since the loss of Princess Diana years ago IMO. No putting that genie back.

Where I struggle, I just don't get the blind hate to the point of killing and being killed. As some said, if he was in denial of his orientation, I guess his choice to go out in a blaze there makes a twisted 'sense' to prove to himself he wasn't 'queer'.
If it was just terror, well he epitomizes cowardly behaviour choosing a club of unarmed party going civilians and will be provided a special kind of hell in the next life regardless I hope, if there is one.
Seeing some of the self pictures he took, I tend to agree he was counting on the media exposure as he was seemingly into the current selfie generation mentality.
It is all just so horribly tragic and wasteful.