Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico - Manzo Corona, a mid-level official from Jalisco's Ministry of Social Development was fired after he posted an discriminatory comment on Facebook about the Sunday shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, that left fifty dead.

"It's a shame there were only 50 and not 100," he wrote.

Manzo Corona had been working for the Development and Social Integration Secretariat in Mexico's Jalisco state. Word of his comments spread rapidly on social media, drawing swift condemnation from authorities hours later.

Jalisco Governor Aristóteles Sandoval posted a Facebook message of his own, announcing his decision to fire Manzo Corona "for his homophobic comments" online.

"My government promotes respect and inclusion. These are our values," Sandoval wrote. "Discriminatory expressions will not be tolerated under any circumstance."

Mexicans largely reacted to the Orlando nightclub shootings with messages of sympathy for the victims. President Enrique Peña Nieto tweeted his condolences: "Mexico deeply regrets the violence in Florida and expresses its solidarity to the families of the victims and the American people."

The Development and Social Integration Secretariat operates a number of programs dedicated toward helping people in poverty. Its secretary, Miguel Castro Reynoso, said the agency's role made it all the more important to respond swiftly to the online post. "We are the first people who should be tolerant, those of us who serve the people," he tweeted.

Many also lamented that mass shootings have become too common in the United States. "My first reaction on hearing the news was horror, but not disbelief," wrote El Universal columnist Gabriel Guerra. "This is another of the innumerable armed attacks that occur daily in the United States."