Regardless of his name and his 11th-hour pledge of allegiance, [Omar Mateen] belongs to a deeply entrenched (and rather shocking) history of American violence committed against citizens in public places.
To take this shooting as a critical juncture to advance a ban on guns, promote social tolerance and the foundations of the core American social values, and to strive for a better global counterterrorism atmosphere: such would be the best memorial for the dead.