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Contents:
- PATRON ED SPECT'S OWN GUN TO HELP STOP MASS SHOOTG COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB, MAYOR SAYS
- OFFICIALS: GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG SPECT PURCHASED GUN ‘LEGALLY’
- GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
- WHE HOE US GAY CLUB SHOOTG TO PH GUN-GRABBG
- MEET THE GAY LIBERTARIAN GUN NUTS
- THE GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW
- SPECT COLORADO GAY CLUB ATTACK APPEARS TO HAVE PED STATE’S ‘RED FLAG’ GUN LAW
PATRON ED SPECT'S OWN GUN TO HELP STOP MASS SHOOTG COLORADO SPRGS GAY NIGHTCLUB, MAYOR SAYS
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OFFICIALS: GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG SPECT PURCHASED GUN ‘LEGALLY’
The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. * gun used in gay club shooting *
Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. An ter-fah exist flag is displayed a show of solidary wh the gay muny after a mass shootg at the Club Q gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, on Nov. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man to be elected a U.
Crime tape is set up near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. Sarah Kate Ellis, print and CEO of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), lled the shootg an “unspeakable attack” and a “horrific tragedy” a tweet on Sunday, sayg the cint “has robbed untls people of their iends and fay and an entire muny’s sense of safety. Police: Gunman kills 5 at gay nightclub, subdued by patrons (The Associated Prs).
GUNMAN KILLED 5 AT COLORADO SPRGS GAY CLUB BEFORE BEG SUBDUED BY PATRONS, POLICE SAY
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People embrace durg a ndlelight vigil on a rner near the se of a weekend mass shootg at a gay bar, late Monday, Nov. A 22-year-old gunman opened fire wh a semitomatic rifle si a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and leavg 25 jured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrted by police who arrived wh mut, thori said spect the Saturday night shootg at Club Q ed an AR-15-style semitomatic weapon, a law enforcement official said.
Suthers said there was "reason to hope" that all of those hospalized would shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.
WHE HOE US GAY CLUB SHOOTG TO PH GUN-GRABBG
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He said patrons who tervened durg the attack were "heroic" and owed a bt of gratu for preventg more Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, lled the shootg "sickeng.
Experts warned that extremist groups uld see anti-gay rhetoric as a ll to prev month, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his small Boise ngregatn that gay, lbian and transgenr people should be executed by the ernment, which led up wh siar sermons om a Texas fundamentalist 2006, there have been 523 mass killgs and 2, 727 aths as of Nov. The attack stunned the muny and echoed the 2016 massacre that left 49 people ad at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando. It’s a fun-lovg place, wh equent drag shows and playful menu ems such as “Gayoli Fri” – ench i topped wh garlic ali – and “Death by Rabow Flight, ” a groupg of six ndy-flavored shots.
As a Black kid, ’s taboo to be gay. Colorado Sprgs, the state’s send-most populo cy wh jt unr 500, 000 rints, is home to a number of ary bas and is the headquarters for Foc on the Fay, the nservative Christian group that says homosexualy and same-sex marriage are ss. He and his bs partner toured other succsful LGBTQ spac and noted a mon theme: “They were gay as hell, ” Grzecka told the outlet.
MEET THE GAY LIBERTARIAN GUN NUTS
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Jared Polis, a Democrat and the natn’s first openly gay ernor, issued a statement Sunday llg the attack “horrific, sickeng and vastatg” and offered state rourc to lol law enforcement. Polis told CNN’s Jim Asta there are only two gay bars Colorado Sprgs, and Club Q was one of the ma venu.
A Colorado Sprgs muny service vehicle is parked Sunday near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., where a shootg occurred late Saturday night.
THE GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO'S RED FLAG GUN LAW
DENVER — A year and a half before he was arrted the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub shootg that left five people ad, Anrson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother wh a homema bomb, forcg neighbors surroundg hom to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him to surrenrg.
DENVER — A year and a half before he was arrted the Colorado Sprgs gay nightclub shootg that left five people ad, Anrson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother wh a homema bomb, forcg neighbors to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him to spe that sre, there’s no public rerd that prosecutors moved forward wh felony kidnappg and menacg charg agast Aldrich, or that police or relativ tried to trigger Colorado’s “red flag” law, which would have allowed thori to seize the weapons and ammunn that Aldrich’s mother says he had wh advot say Aldrich’s alleged June 2021 threat is an example of a red flag law ignored, wh potentially adly nsequenc. — -- The man spected of killg at least 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando apparently ed a kd of semitomatic asslt rifle that has bee a weapon of choice among mass had a.
SPECT COLORADO GAY CLUB ATTACK APPEARS TO HAVE PED STATE’S ‘RED FLAG’ GUN LAW
It was pafully remiscent of the 2016 massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., where a gunman killed 49 people and wound 53 others after proclaimg allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist Miller for The New York TimJoshua Thurman, who had gone to Club Q for an early birthday celebratn, thought the first gunshots were part of the mic. Colorado Sprgs, a cy of about 500, 000 people south of Denver, is a Republin stronghold, and for s was a center for nservative Christian efforts to pass laws limg the rights of gay the cy, which has long had a small but vibrant L.
Grzecka said, the gay muny Colorado Sprgs had e together, “thkg we were takg a stance. “In the gay muny you create your fai, so ’s like I lost my real mother almost. “It’s one of the few plac that the gay muny n go to that they felt fairly safe at, whout issu om other people, ” he said.