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Guardian writer Owen Jones stormed off the set of Sky News’ “Press Preview” after presenter Mark Longhurst and fellow guest Julia Hartley-Brewer refused to acknowledge the Orlando shooting as a homophobic-fueled hate crime.

Longhurst and Hartley-Brewer repeatedly dismissed the LGBT-focus of the tragedy causing Jones to get heated.

“If he went into a synagogue and killed innocent Jewish people, as we have had people in the past who have done that: ‘disgusting anti-semitic terrorist’ – we would call it out for what it is,” Jones says.

Hartley-Brewer began calling the gunman Omar Mateen a “lunatic” causing Jones to say to stop using words like “lunatic” to describe “homophobic terrorism.” Hartley-Brewer accused Jones of trying to take “ownership of the horror of this crime because you’re gay” to which Jones responded “I find this astonishing.”

Longhurst also said the attack was on “people enjoying themselves” and did not mention the specific community that was targeted.

“What are you talking about? I’m trying to understand the point you are making. This was a deliberate attack on LGBT people in an LGBT venue. It was a homophobic terrorist attack. Don’t you understand that? It’s not an abstract he picked a random club out of nowhere, he picked a club because it was full of people he regarded as deviants,” Jones responded.

Visibly upset, Jones later removed his microphone and left the stage. Following his outburst, Jones took to Twitter to comment.

“Thanks for all the lovely comments: but it really was just an instinctive reaction to an unpleasant situation, this isn’t about me,” Jones tweeted.