Five dead, 18 injured in nightclub shooting in Colorado - police

[mountaineer]

Since no one has identified the weapon, how do we know it would have "qualified" as an assault weapon?Could have been a shotgun...

Seems to me that any object that may be used as a weapon to assault someone with is, by definition, an assault weapon.

[mystery-ak]

Colorado Springs gay club shooter, 22,
used an AR-15-style rifle to kill Five
and injure 18 before being taken down
by patrons: Was on authorities radar after
being arrested for a bomb threat last year

    Five people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs club
    Police say 25 people were injured during the Club Q shooting last night 
    Authorities say Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22,  entered the gay club just before midnight and fired an unknown number of bullets from an AR-15 style long rifle before he was tackled to the ground by two patrons
    Aldrich is now in protective custody at a local hospital for unknown injuries
    He was previously arrested for making a bomb threat in June 2021 but was never formally charged

By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com and Natasha Anderson For Mailonline

Published: 05:19 EST, 20 November 2022 | Updated: 16:31 EST, 20 November 2022


A man who survived a deadly attack at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs Saturday night told how he hid in a dressing room with two other people after shots rang out.

Joshua Thurman, 34, told reporters how he had been dancing on the dancefloor at Club Q when he first heard about four or five gunshots.

'I thought it was the music because there were no screams, no shouts of "Help, help," nothing like that,' he said. 'Then I heard more shots and saw the flash from the muzzle of the gun.'

more
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11449337/Five-dead-25-injured-gunman-opened-fire-inside-gay-club-Colorado-Springs.html

[mystery-ak]

'Look Inward And Change': AOC Lambasts Boebert Over Colorado Springs Shooting


Harold Hutchison
Reporter
November 20, 2022 5:55 PM ET
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Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York criticized Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, an outspoken gun-rights advocate, due to a shooting at a Colorado Springs bar.

A gunman killed five people and 18 others suffered injuries at a Colorado Springs bar Saturday night before two people tackled the gunman and held him until police arrived, CNN reported. At least two people were in critical condition at one local hospital.

“@laurenboebert you have played a major role in elevating anti-LGBT+ hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies while spending your time in Congress blocking even the most common sense gun safety laws,” Ocasio-Cortez posted on Twitter.

“You don’t get to ‘thoughts and prayers’ your way out of this,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “Look inward and change.”

more
https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/20/aoc-boebert-colorado-springs-shooting/

[Kamaji]

[mystery-ak]

Media Baselessly Blames Savage Gay Club Attack On Tucker Carlson, Criticism Of Drag Shows For Children


Nicole Silverio
Media Reporter
November 21, 2022 2:05 PM ET
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Liberal media outlets blamed Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson and criticism of drag shows for children for the ruthless attack on an LGBTQ nightclub Sunday night.

The New York Times and NBC News pinned the “right-wing” for the attack at Club Q in Colorado Springs where the suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, allegedly opened fire into a crowd upon entering the building. The incident killed five and injured at least 25 others.

Both outlets asserted that the shooting occurred as parents and activists have expressed concern over drag events for young children. The club reportedly scheduled a drag brunch for Sunday in honor of Trans Remembrance Day, a commemoration of transgender people who have lost their lives, according to the Times.

The New York Times said the threats targeted toward drag events were caused by over 200 conservative demonstrators in Oregon, and by the Proud Boys in California, Maryland and North Carolina. The outlet then pinned Carlson, Fox News anchor Jesse Watters, Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” and Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert for their so-called “disapproving coverage” on drag events for children.

“Events featuring performers in drag have received disapproving coverage from some of the most prominent voices on the political right, including the Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters, who frequently claim that the events are dangerous for children,” the Times wrote. “As Mr. Carlson spoke during one of his broadcasts, a headline on the screen read: ‘Pervy men dressed as women dance provocatively in front of child for ‘all-age’ brunch at Texas restaurant.'”

more
https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/21/media-baselessly-blames-gay-club-attack-tucker-carlson-drag-shows-children/

[sneakypete]

Media Baselessly Blames Savage Gay Club Attack On Tucker Carlson, Criticism Of Drag Shows For Children


Nicole Silverio
Media Reporter
November 21, 2022 2:05 PM ET
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@mystery-ak

I don't give a rabid rats ass what ANYBODY wants to call me,ANYBODY that puts on "Drag/Crossdressing Shows for minor children should be beaten in public,and ANYONE in a public school administration that approves of these shows should be publicly beaten,also.

Then,they should be fired from their jobs and prohibited from teaching minor children ever again.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Greg Price
@greg_price11

The Colorado shooter was arrested last year after threatening his Mom with a bomb. He was able to pass a background check because his charges were dropped. Colorado also has a red flag law. Before you talk about passing new gun laws, maybe the ones on the books should be enforced.

2:44 PM · Nov 21, 2022 ·Twitter Web App

[mystery-ak]

Whoopi Goldberg Blames Boebert, Rhetoric for Colorado LGBTQ Shooting

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that Saturday’s shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs that left five people dead and 25 injured is what right-wing rhetoric, like that from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), brings.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/11/21/whoopi-goldberg-blames-boebert-rhetoric-for-colorado-lgbtq-shooting/

[mountaineer]

They'll blame Boebert, Tucker Carlson, and every last conservative for this idiot Aldrich's actions. Give me a break.

[Right_in_Virginia]

They'll blame Boebert, Tucker Carlson, and every last conservative for this idiot Aldrich's actions. Give me a break.

So far they're blaming "MAGA"   ----  they'll get specific soon enough.     

[GtHawk]

Whoopi Goldberg Blames Boebert, Rhetoric for Colorado LGBTQ Shooting

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that Saturday’s shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs that left five people dead and 25 injured is what right-wing rhetoric, like that from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), brings.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/11/21/whoopi-goldberg-blames-boebert-rhetoric-for-colorado-lgbtq-shooting/
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That makes as much sense as blaming Whoopi for starving children, or Behar for curdled milk.

[mystery-ak]

MSNBC’s Figliuzzi Suggests ‘Civil Consequences’ for Boebert, FNC’s Carlson over CO Shooter

Pam Key 21 Nov 2022

MSNBC national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi said Monday on “Deadline” that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Fox News host Tucker Carlson may face civil lawsuits from the victims of Saturday’s shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO if it is discovered the shooter is a “consumer” of Fox News or the congresswoman.

Figliuzzi said, “It is it about instilling fear, and the correct response for the rest of us is to step up and push back right at them. So it’s hatred. It’s clinging to weapons. It’s ignorance of the other, demonizing the other. We said this over and over again. But strategically, what appears to be happening is they want to deny people the safe haven and safe harbor, whether we’re talking about kids in school feeling unsafe because of guns. Black churches feeling like they are going to get shot up, like at a Bible study that’s happened in South Carolina. Whether it’s synagogues, whether it’s the gay club on a weekend night, there seems to be a concerted effort to not only instill fear but deny the safe places.”

He continued, “We need to see accountability and consequences. So first, a real quick hate crime charge here on top of the homicide charges. I applaud that. That tells me prosecutors and police, they found quickly what they needed. That means they know this was a bias crime. This is likely since we’ve heard reports that the subject isn’t cooperative with police, that means they likely found clearly and convincing evidence on his devices. If he’s a consumer of the people we just rattled off, from Lauren Boebert to Tucker Carlson. Let’s get it out. Let’s get it out at trial. Let’s expose it for what it is, name it, and shame it. He. is a consumer of these people, and those people should face civil consequences from the victims.”

Figliuzzi added, “The other thing they want to deny is not only the safe harbor but the way we resolve this. By that, I mean you asked earlier how do we put a stop to hate. One of the things you would normally do is teach young children in school, here’s what race is about. Here’s what these other people over here, who may seem different to you, they have a different orientation. But increasingly, states are saying, no, no, no, you can’t talk about race, say the word gay or teach anything in school.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/11/21/msnbcs-figliuzzi-suggests-civil-consequences-for-boebert-fncs-carlson-over-co-shooter/

[Kamaji]

MSNBC’s Figliuzzi Suggests ‘Civil Consequences’ for Boebert, FNC’s Carlson over CO Shooter

Pam Key 21 Nov 2022

MSNBC national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi said Monday on “Deadline” that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Fox News host Tucker Carlson may face civil lawsuits from the victims of Saturday’s shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO if it is discovered the shooter is a “consumer” of Fox News or the congresswoman.

Figliuzzi said, “It is it about instilling fear, and the correct response for the rest of us is to step up and push back right at them. So it’s hatred. It’s clinging to weapons. It’s ignorance of the other, demonizing the other. We said this over and over again. But strategically, what appears to be happening is they want to deny people the safe haven and safe harbor, whether we’re talking about kids in school feeling unsafe because of guns. Black churches feeling like they are going to get shot up, like at a Bible study that’s happened in South Carolina. Whether it’s synagogues, whether it’s the gay club on a weekend night, there seems to be a concerted effort to not only instill fear but deny the safe places.”

He continued, “We need to see accountability and consequences. So first, a real quick hate crime charge here on top of the homicide charges. I applaud that. That tells me prosecutors and police, they found quickly what they needed. That means they know this was a bias crime. This is likely since we’ve heard reports that the subject isn’t cooperative with police, that means they likely found clearly and convincing evidence on his devices. If he’s a consumer of the people we just rattled off, from Lauren Boebert to Tucker Carlson. Let’s get it out. Let’s get it out at trial. Let’s expose it for what it is, name it, and shame it. He. is a consumer of these people, and those people should face civil consequences from the victims.”

Figliuzzi added, “The other thing they want to deny is not only the safe harbor but the way we resolve this. By that, I mean you asked earlier how do we put a stop to hate. One of the things you would normally do is teach young children in school, here’s what race is about. Here’s what these other people over here, who may seem different to you, they have a different orientation. But increasingly, states are saying, no, no, no, you can’t talk about race, say the word gay or teach anything in school.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/11/21/msnbcs-figliuzzi-suggests-civil-consequences-for-boebert-fncs-carlson-over-co-shooter/

You don’t stop hate by grooming little kids to satisfy the sex fetishes of pedophile adults. Until you get that straight in your head, you will get tragedies like this, which are more logically laid at the feet of those who would use schools to groom children sexually, not at the feet of those who oppose such grooming. 

[EdinVA]

“It is it about instilling fear,...

Sorta like Russia, Russia, Russia or Covid, Covid, Covid?
Just following the democratic handbook on America...

[mountaineer]

MSNBC national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi said Monday on “Deadline” that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Fox News host Tucker Carlson may face civil lawsuits from the victims of Saturday’s shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO if it is discovered the shooter is a “consumer” of Fox News or the congresswoman.

Any lawyer filing such a ludicrous, frivolous lawsuit should face sanctions.

[EdinVA]

Authorities say Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22,  entered the gay club just before midnight and fired an unknown number of bullets from an AR-15 style long rifle before he was tackled to the ground by two patrons

They are now reporting that the shooter had a handgun
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-nightclub-shooting-victims-idd-police-hail-heroes-who-took-suspect-down

[mountaineer]

an AR-15 style long rifle

Is there an AR-15 style short rifle?

Already getting tired of this story.

[sneakypete]

MSNBC’s Figliuzzi Suggests ‘Civil Consequences’ for Boebert, FNC’s Carlson over CO Shooter

Pam Key 21 Nov 2022

MSNBC national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi said Monday on “Deadline” that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Fox News host Tucker Carlson may face civil lawsuits from the victims of Saturday’s shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO if it is discovered the shooter is a “consumer” of Fox News or the congresswoman.

@mystery-ak

This is stupidity on an epic scale.

HOW is this guy free to run around and publish his insane brain farts?

[Elderberry]

DNYUZ 11/21/2022

COLORADO SPRINGS — Richard M. Fierro said he was at a table in Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends on Saturday, watching a drag show, when the sudden flash of gunfire ripped across the nightclub. His instincts from four combat deployments as an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan instantly kicked in. Fight back, he told himself.

When the shooting started, Mr. Fierro said, he hit the floor, pulling a friend down with him. As bullets sprayed, he saw the gunman move through the bar toward a door leading to a patio where dozens of bar patrons had fled. Mr. Fierro, who served in the Army for 15 years, said he raced across the room, grabbed the gunman by a handle on the back of his body armor, pulled him to the floor and jumped on top of him.

The gunman, who Mr. Fierro estimated weighed more than 300 pounds, sprawled onto the floor, his military-style rifle landing just out of reach. Mr. Fierro started to go for the rifle, but then saw that the gunman had a pistol as well.

“I grabbed the gun out of his hand and just started hitting him in the head, over and over,” Mr. Fierro said.

As the fight continued, he said, he yelled for other club patrons to help him. A man grabbed the rifle and moved it away to safety. A drag dancer stomped on the gunman with her high heels. The whole time, Mr. Fierro said, he kept pummeling the shooter’s head while the two men screamed obscenities at each other.

More: https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/21/an-army-veteran-says-he-went-into-combat-mode-to-disarm-the-gunman/

[mountaineer]

The drag queen stomping the perp with his high heels is just fantastic. I had pictured it more like Blazing Saddles, with the effeminate man beating the cowboy's chest with tiny clenched fists, "You brute!"

[sneakypete]

The drag queen stomping the perp with his high heels is just fantastic. I had pictured it more like Blazing Saddles, with the effeminate man beating the cowboy's chest with tiny clenched fists, "You brute!"

@mountaineer

I SUSPECT the typical drag queen has more physical confrontation experience than both of us,combined.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO

I just want to make sure I’m correct in understanding that the Left is using the tragedy in Colorado to make the argument that unless conservatives get on board with experimenting on children’s genitals with puberty blockers, then nightclub shootings will continue to happen.

6:41 PM · Nov 20, 2022  ·Twitter for iPhone

[mountaineer]

Where's the evidence the shooter cared about drag queens grooming children for sexual perversion, anyway? They immediately jumped on the "hate crime" train without proof that this guy was motivated by hatred for homosexuals or men who dress in women's clothing.

[mountaineer]

Lucas Tomlinson
@LucasFoxNews
Biden statement on mass shooting in Colorado Springs: "While no motive in this attack is yet clear, we know that the LGBTQI+ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in recent years..."
12:41 PM · Nov 20, 2022


This is kind of like saying, "While no link between kumquats and the heartbreak of psoriasis has been identified, we know that these pretzels are salty."

[Kamaji]

Lucas Tomlinson
@LucasFoxNews
Biden statement on mass shooting in Colorado Springs: "While no motive in this attack is yet clear, we know that the LGBTQI+ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in recent years..."
12:41 PM · Nov 20, 2022


This is kind of like saying, "While no link between kumquats and the heartbreak of psoriasis has been identified, we know that these pretzels are salty."

Blatant lie.