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Could Colorado's 'Red Flag' Law Have Prevented the Club Q Massacre?

If an order had been issued, it would have expired months before the attack unless police successfully sought an extension.

Reason

Army veteran who tackled Colorado Springs shooter ‘overwhelmed’ with community support after massacre

Richard Fierro’s family receives ‘outporing of love’ after mass shooter kills five inside LGBT+ nightclub, including daughter’s boyfriend

The Independent UK

Future for assault weapons ban in Senate is grim, top legislator says

The Senate is unlikely to pass a ban on assault weapons despite growing calls for tougher gun laws in the wake of the Colorado Springs massacre, a top lawmaker said Sunday.

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Community response to Club Q shooting could help Colorado Springs shed 30-year-old anti-gay image

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Last weekend's tragedy at Club Q, when an attacker killed two bartenders and three customers and shot 17 others inside the nightclub before two patrons intervened, in several ways united what some view as a divided community.

Tribune News Service

Club Q was a home, a sanctuary, a haven for countless people. 5 Coloradans share what it meant to them

DENVER — Long before a shooter walked through its doors one week ago and opened fire, Club Q on Colorado Springs’ busy North Academy Boulevard held a special place in the heart of the city’s LGBTQ community.

The Denver Post

Focus on the Family’s Colorado Springs headquarters sign vandalized days after Club Q mass shooting

DENVER — The sign of the Colorado Springs headquarters of the evangelical Christian ministry Focus on the Family was defaced days after a gunman attacked the city’s sole LGBTQ+ nightclub.

The Denver Post

Influential evangelical group that opposes LGBT+ rights vandalised after Colorado Springs mass shooting

Group claiming responsibily for graffiti points to Focus on the Family’s legacy of ‘hateful theology’

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Colorado Springs reckons with past after gay club shooting

A mass shooting at a popular gay club in Colorado Springs has resurfaced questions about the city's past and future among its residents

The Independent UK

Martin Schram: Now we need political heroics

Our news screens were erupting with breaking news of yet another mass shooting. But this time the news that began with a barrage of bullets also became something special — a tale of battlefield heroics on the homefront of a nightspot in Colorado Springs.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: A good guy without a gun: How Richard Fierro became the hero of Colorado Springs’ Club Q massacre

In Colorado Springs on Saturday night, Richard Fierro, a U.S. Army vet who’d deployed three times to Iraq and once to Afghanistan, went to an LGBTQ nightclub with his wife to celebrate a friend’s birthday. There was dancing and a drag show.

Tribune News Service

Colorado Springs shooting: Club Q owners blame ‘new type of hate’ as suspect held without bond

22-year-old suspect accused of killing five people inside LGBT+ nightclub

The Independent UK

Biden calls Club Q owners and vows again to push for an assault weapons ban

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden spoke Thursday with the owners of an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where five people were killed in a mass shooting, offering a sign of support as he pushes to ban assault weapons.

Tribune News Service

Colorado Springs mass shooting suspect and mother accused of using racist slurs during July flight

Video reportedly taken by flight passenger appears to show Anderson Aldrich saying ‘you keep following me and I’m going to f*** you up’

The Independent UK

Gay club owner: Shooting comes amid a new 'type of hate'

The co-owner of Colorado Springs’ Club Q said that anti-LGBTQ hate has evolved from prejudice to incitement

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Joe Biden calls the owners of Club Q after shooting in Colorado Springs

The call comes after five people killed in latest mass shooting

The Denver Post

The Club Q shooting suspect identifies as nonbinary. Will that affect potential hate crime charges?

DENVER — Prosecutors can still pursue hate crime charges against the person accused of killing five people inside a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub despite the suspect identifying as nonbinary, legal experts said.

ABC News

America's LGBTQ community says the massacre at Club Q in Colorado Springs was a disaster waiting to happen

Police allege a 22-year-old dressed in body armour burst into the nightclub with a rifle and a handgun. But local activists say the alleged assailant clearly misjudged their intended victims.

The Independent UK

Ex-Trump lawyer says Colorado Springs victims are ‘reaping the consequences of having eternal damnation’

Right-wing media commentary and far-right influencers continue to amplify inflammatory anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric after mass shooting killed five inside LGBT+ nightclub

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The Independent UK

Anderson Lee Aldrich sent mother chilling message hours before Colorado Springs shooting

Laura Voepel, the mother of suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, wrote on Facebook the night before the Club Q attack that she was looking for her child

The Independent UK

Colorado Springs shooting – live: Boebert launches self-pitying rant amid backlash over Club Q attack response

22-year-old suspect wanted to be the ‘next mass killer’ and go out ‘in a blaze’

The Guardian - AU

Club Q was an inclusive, welcoming space for everyone. Its assault is an attack on us all

This is not just an American problem – it is being imported to Australia

The Independent UK

Colorado Springs shooting suspect accused newspaper of ‘damaging’ their reputation after ‘bomb threat’

The voicemail left by the suspect in the Colorado Springs shooting relays how they believe an article written by a local outlet about their alleged bomb threat was ‘libellous’

The Independent UK

Colorado Springs shooter’s non-binary claim won’t stop hate crime charges, legal experts say

22-year-old is charged with five counts of murder

Los Angeles Times

Fragments of a troubled young life emerge, but mysteries about Anderson Aldrich remain

New details have emerged in the case against Anderson Aldrich, the suspect in the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub, that have raised further questions about a potential motive in the attack that left five dead and 18 wounded in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The Independent UK

Colorado Springs shooting – live: Anderson Lee Aldrich’s father speaks out as motive remains unclear

Aldrich is facing multiple counts of murder and hate crime charges

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