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ponchi101 wrote: Sun Nov 20, 2022 1:01 am I miss snow... :cry:
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At Least 5 Killed in L.G.B.T.Q. Nightclub Shooting in Colorado Springs, CO
At least five people were killed and 18 injured late Saturday in a shooting at an L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in Colorado Springs, the police said early Sunday morning.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/20 ... s-shooting

I believe Colorado Springs is home to many of those anti-lgbtq evangelical grooming centers.
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Well this explains everything. Next will be some version of the family asks that it's privacy be respected...

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LGBTQ+ Twitter is gleefully tweeting news articles featuring this image of the Colorado Springs shooter's grandfather.

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Colorado is so bi-polar. They can elect an openly gay governor and at the same time elect Boebert. They approve marihuana legalization and at the same time are super gun friendly. And they can be very open about LGBT, but the GOP loonies in the state do this.
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ponchi101 wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:13 am Colorado is so bi-polar. They can elect an openly gay governor and at the same time elect Boebert. They approve marihuana legalization and at the same time are super gun friendly. And they can be very open about LGBT, but the GOP loonies in the state do this.
It is freaking sickening.
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ti-amie wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:52 am LGBTQ+ Twitter is gleefully tweeting news articles featuring this image of the Colorado Springs shooter's grandfather.

I don't think anyone should be 'gleeful' about any element of this.
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It's the irony of the situation. I have to find the first hand report someone posted yesterday about what happened during that first incident where instead of getting him the mental health help he needed - who builds a bomb to blow up their mother - the grandfather got him off and all news reports were wiped. They're reposting it "gleefully" because it shows the hypocrisy of the MAGATs. I didn't mean to imply that they're celebrating what happened.
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Police probe LGBTQ club shooting suspect’s ties to a 2021 bomb threat
Previous incident raises questions over whether law-enforcement officials were aware of warning signs
By Joby Warrick and Robert Klemko
Updated November 20, 2022 at 7:07 p.m. EST|Published November 20, 2022 at 12:40 p.m. EST

Anderson Lee Aldrich was identified by Colorado Springs police as the suspected gunman who walked into the Club Q bar shortly before midnight with a rifle and opened fire, killing five people and wounding two dozen others before being subdued by bar patrons and then arrested by police who arrived minutes later. Local authorities and FBI officials were looking into whether the attack constituted a hate crime.

Details about the gunman were initially sparse. Colorado Springs police would not comment officially on whether the suspected shooter was the same individual charged with multiple counts of kidnapping and felony menacing after the bomb-threat incident in southeastern Colorado Springs on June 18, 2021. But the man taken into custody at that time had the same name and age as the Club Q shooter. A federal law-enforcement official on Sunday confirmed that the Club Q gunman’s birth date matched that of the bomb-threat suspect.

The Colorado Springs district attorney’s office ultimately declined to bring formal charges in the wake of the 2021 bomb-threat incident, and the court records for the case were placed under seal, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

The link between the two incidents, if confirmed, is likely to raise questions over whether law-enforcement officials were aware of warning signs that might have resulted in legal action to bar the suspect from gaining access to weapons.

Neither local police nor FBI investigators were willing to discuss a possible motive for the shooting on Sunday. A statement by Colorado Springs police said that “multiple” firearms were found at the scene, and an effort was underway to identify who owned the weapons. “The suspect used a long rifle during the shooting,” the statement said. No further details were provided as to how the gun was obtained.

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The nightclub, well known within Colorado Springs’ LGTBQ community, is located about 15 miles from the city’s Lorson Ranch community, a southeastern suburb of modest single-family homes where the 2021 bomb-threat incident took place. That day’s events were chronicled in an El Paso County Sheriff’s Department news release that included a description of the arrest of a then-21-year-old man named Anderson Lee Aldrich.

Public records link Aldrich to several different addresses in Colorado and Texas, most recently in Colorado Springs. He was listed as a registered voter and, as of 2020, a college student.

According to the news release, a woman — believed to be Aldrich’s mother — called the authorities to report that her son was threatening her with a homemade bomb and other weapons. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a single-story brick-and-siding house in the 9800 block of Rubicon Drive, the scene of the reported bomb threat. Public records show that Aldrich at the time lived on the block, at 9815 Rubicon Dr.

Deputies arriving at the scene ordered a partial evacuation of the neighborhood and then confronted Aldrich at another house, about a mile away.

There, Aldrich at first refused to surrender. But after a standoff, he was persuaded to walk out of the house, and was arrested without incident. No bomb was found, but Aldrich was charged with five felony counts, including kidnapping and felony menacing.

Why local prosecutors declined to pursue charges in the case was not clear.


Also unclear was whether any petitions had been filed against Aldrich preventing him from possessing a firearm. Colorado’s 2019 “red flag” law gives local judges the authority to order the confiscation of firearms from individuals with a history of mental illness or violence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... r-suspect/
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