5 people are killed, at least 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs

[Scott]

 

 

Five people were killed Saturday night at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, according to police. Another 18 people were injured in the mass shooting at Club Q.

Authorities received numerous 911 calls starting at 11:57 p.m. and responded to the scene, said Colorado Springs Police Lt. Pamela Castro.

“They did locate one individual who we believe to be the suspect inside,” said Castro. “At this point in time, the suspect is being treated, but is in custody.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting-gay-nightclub/index.html

[Social Media]

 

[Bluespunk]

38 minutes ago, Scott said:

“At this point in time, the suspect is being treated,

Seems some of those in the club put a stop to this attack. One hopes they were not too gentle when 'subduing' them.... 

 

“We thank the quick reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hate attack,” the statement said. Details of how the shooting ended have yet to be released by police, but Castro said “this was not an officer-involved shooting.”

[Jingthing]

If anyone is surprised by this, they really shouldn't be.

 

Op-Ed: Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs follows six brutal years of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric (msn.com)

 

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Op-Ed: Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs follows six brutal years of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric

 

 

Well if its any consolation, Colorado's gay governor will likely do a better job dealing with this than anti LGBT demagogue DeSantis did with the Pulse massacre.

 

Florida Gov DeSantis vetoes mental health funding for Pulse shooting survivors – The Hill

 

[SunnyinBangrak]

11 hours ago, stevenl said:

Again. Unfortunately it won't be the last time as well as long as priority is given to false flags like Hunter's  laptop in stead of tackling the real issues.

RIP to the victims of this dreadful act.

 

You know full well it is his laptop, please quit with the disinformation. It is disrespectful to the deceased to use misinformation to gain political points.

[stevenl]

32 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

RIP to the victims of this dreadful act.

 

You know full well it is his laptop, please quit with the disinformation. It is disrespectful to the deceased to use misinformation to gain political points.

Inciting hatred is disrespectful, not doing anything about the gun problem is disrespectful.

[SunnyinBangrak]

24 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Inciting hatred is disrespectful, not doing anything about the gun problem is disrespectful.

All of which has zero to do with your intentional disinformation previously. I do not want a lecture from you on respect after this behaviour.

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

All of which has zero to do with your intentional disinformation previously. I do not want a lecture from you on respect after this behaviour.

Then show some respect by stop parroting the hatred dear leader is pushing.

[Bkk Brian]

Turns out the shooter is a grandson of Maga member and election denier

 

The 22-year-old gunman who killed at least five in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs is the grandson of a California Trump-alligned Republican member of the state assembly, and he had a run-in with police after threatening to blow up his mother's house, the Washington Post reports.

Anderson Lee Aldrich's grandfather is reportedly Randy Voepel, who represents the 71st District in the California state assembly. Advocacy groups called for Randy Voepel's expulsion from the assembly for calling for "Lexington and Concord" in the days prior to the Republican-led January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

 

https://nationalzero.com/2022/11/20/gunman-who-shot-up-colorado-gay-club-grandson-of-maga-state-senator-had-run-in-with-police-in-spring/

 

 

Facebook posts shared on Laura Voepel’s page show that Aldrich’s grandfather is Randy Voepel, a Republican state lawmaker in the California State Assembly who compared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to the Revolutionary War.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3744134-what-we-know-about-the-colorado-springs-nightclub-shooting-suspect/

[Rimmer]

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[Tug]

A very sick and cruel thing to do kudos to the patrons in subduing the murderous thug hopefully they were nun to gentle.This latest tragedy im sure was helped along with all the anti gay drivel put out by the republicans 

[Tropposurfer]

RIP to al the souls and tenderness in my heart for their families left to live without their love and joy.

 

If you have multiple arms of the media, cowardly, racist, xenophobic, politicians and other self-serving grifters relentlessly, unerringly, telling people from morn to night there is a multifaceted conspiracy by gay, sane moderate thinking, gentle, loving people who aren't suppressing their own humanity beneath layers of cruelty and self contempt, then projecting it outwards like this guy with his racist, homophobic, rigid constricted neurotic MAGA thinking and beliefs then this horrific murdering will only continue in 'the greatest nation on earth(?)'. 

Edited November 21, 2022 by Tropposurfer

[Chomper Higgot]

6 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Turns out the shooter is a grandson of Maga member and election denier

 

The 22-year-old gunman who killed at least five in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs is the grandson of a California Trump-alligned Republican member of the state assembly, and he had a run-in with police after threatening to blow up his mother's house, the Washington Post reports.

Anderson Lee Aldrich's grandfather is reportedly Randy Voepel, who represents the 71st District in the California state assembly. Advocacy groups called for Randy Voepel's expulsion from the assembly for calling for "Lexington and Concord" in the days prior to the Republican-led January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

 

https://nationalzero.com/2022/11/20/gunman-who-shot-up-colorado-gay-club-grandson-of-maga-state-senator-had-run-in-with-police-in-spring/

 

 

Facebook posts shared on Laura Voepel’s page show that Aldrich’s grandfather is Randy Voepel, a Republican state lawmaker in the California State Assembly who compared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to the Revolutionary War.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3744134-what-we-know-about-the-colorado-springs-nightclub-shooting-suspect/

While I’ll definitely be commenting if this murderer’s actions have indeed been motivated by the hatred that is core to MAGA, I don’t think it reasonable to link the political persuasions and actions of the murderer’s grandfather to his crimes without evidence.

 

Let’s see what the investigation, court filings and trial turn up.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 21, 2022 by Chomper Higgot

[riclag]

 Another mental illness candidate who imop escaped all prior local warnings! The incident wasnt pressed by the mom , so the matter was sealed which for all intents . avoid red flag indications! But now the DA gonna take up the bomb threat together with the murders ! Omg 

 

Law enforcement failed again to protect people from the scourge of mental illness imop!

“Anderson Lee Aldrich — who was recovering in a hospital after the attack — had been arrested and charged with menacing and first-degree kidnapping in June 2021 for allegedly making a threat to detonate an explosive, according to police records”.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/alleged-colorado-gunman-anderson-lee-aldrich-evaded-red-flag-law/

Edited November 21, 2022 by riclag

[candide]

Anti-LGBTQ sentiment in Colorado Springs had some in the community anticipating tragedy

 

About someone's idol:

"Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican, who called the shooting Saturday “absolutely awful,” has made anti-LGBTQ policies a part of her platform. She opposes marriage equality and introduced legislation that would ban gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth.

A report earlier this year cited Boebert along with nine other politicians as driving rhetoric implying that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people are “grooming” children."

 

https://news.yahoo.com/anti-lgbtq-sentiment-colorado-springs-032010723.html

 

[RT555]

Maybe Moral Religious Beliefs.

[Social Media]

 

[it is what it is]

 

TIA (this is america)

[Bluespunk]

The individual responsible has been charged with murder and hate crimes.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/21/colorado-springs-shooting-mayor-hate-crime

Edited November 22, 2022 by Bluespunk

[ozimoron]

16 hours ago, riclag said:

 Another mental illness candidate who imop escaped all prior local warnings! The incident wasnt pressed by the mom , so the matter was sealed which for all intents . avoid red flag indications! But now the DA gonna take up the bomb threat together with the murders ! Omg 

 

Law enforcement failed again to protect people from the scourge of mental illness imop!

“Anderson Lee Aldrich — who was recovering in a hospital after the attack — had been arrested and charged with menacing and first-degree kidnapping in June 2021 for allegedly making a threat to detonate an explosive, according to police records”.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/alleged-colorado-gunman-anderson-lee-aldrich-evaded-red-flag-law/

It's always mental illness when it's far right domestic terrorists. Your garbage source is not an approved source. Anyone still not think that far right extremist domestic terrorism is by far America's biggest threat? Where's any evidence of his history of mental illness. That would have been another red flag to his getting a gun but it hasn't been mentioned.

 

Meantime, we are seeing reports of many threats to children's hospitals by these pond scum.

Edited November 22, 2022 by ozimoron

[ozimoron]

Fox News host doubles down on LGBTQ hate after Colorado Springs mass shooting

 

Carlson has long had problems with LGBTQ people, dating back to his college yearbook in which he claimed he was a member of the Dan White Society. Dan White was the man who assassinated LGBTQ rights activist Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in 1978.

Over the years, Carlson has been triggered by drag queens in full regalia reading children's books to kids. He has also attacked people who claimed that allowing medical care for transgender youth is akin to being a child molester.

 

https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-lgbt-hate/

[anyone]

15 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Fox News host doubles down on LGBTQ hate after Colorado Springs...

Everyone has a right to their beliefs, right? Its called freedom of speech.

[ozimoron]

6 minutes ago, anyone said:

Everyone has a right to their beliefs, right? Its called freedom of speech.

If they kept those beliefs to themselves,all would be good. They could just lie in their own swill. However, using your platform to spread a message of hate which is protected only in the US (in western democracies)  is unacceptable. 

 

Shaming their advertisers is a very effective way of forcing some civility.

Edited November 22, 2022 by ozimoron

[anyone]

12 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

They could just lie in their own swill.

everyone has an equal right to express their will - satanists, gays, bestialists and their deniers

[ozimoron]

Just now, anyone said:

everyone has an equal right to express their will - satanists, gays, bestialists and their deniers

Yes, and everyone has the right to suffer the consequences of their vile and intolerant hate speech.

[Deli]

Never would have thought that so many rainbow keyboard warriors are living under the blue roofs in the NE in this country. Or do they just want to leave a comment to a subject they don't even understand and gossip about the gay or katoey of their village ?

[ozimoron]

3 minutes ago, Deli said:

Never would have thought that so many rainbow keyboard warriors are living under the blue roofs in the NE in this country. Or do they just want to leave a comment to a subject they don't even understand and gossip about the gay or katoey of their village ?

Am I right in thinking that you consider anyone who supports gays to be gay? If not, what exactly do you mean to say? Maybe I just misread your comment?

Edited November 22, 2022 by ozimoron

[Chomper Higgot]

On 11/22/2022 at 10:27 AM, anyone said:

Everyone has a right to their beliefs, right? Its called freedom of speech.

The right to beliefs and the right to freedom of speech are two different things.

[Eric Loh]

17 hours ago, Deli said:

Never would have thought that so many rainbow keyboard warriors are living under the blue roofs in the NE in this country. Or do they just want to leave a comment to a subject they don't even understand and gossip about the gay or katoey of their village ?

They are called progressives and they welcome gender identities and different ethnicities. Not a hard subject to comprehend while the conservatives struggle. 
 

[EVENKEEL]

 

The revelation that Aldrich is a member of the LGBT community casts doubt on the previous hypothesis that the shooting was an anti-LGBT hate crime instigated by right-wing political commentators, as several prominent left-wing figures have claimed since the shooting on Saturday.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/colorado-lgbt-nightclub-shooter-is-non-binary-uses-theythem-pronouns-attorneys-say/ar-AA14rIPl