People are still absorbing the shocking news of a gunman who opened fire at a Colorado gay bar last night.
The attack happened at Club Q in Colorado Springs. 911 calls started rolling in shortly before midnight, and officers and ambulances arrived at the scene within minutes.
Per CNN:
An armed 22-year-old entered an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, just before midnight Saturday night and immediately opened fire, killing at least five people and injuring 18 others, before patrons stopped and disarmed him, police said Sunday.
The suspect in the shooting at Club Q was identified as Anderson Lee Aldrich, according to Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez. He used a long rifle in the shooting, and two firearms were found at the scene, he said.
…The incident lasted just minutes. Police received numerous 911 calls starting at 11:56 p.m., officers were dispatched at 11:57 p.m., an officer arrived at midnight and the suspect was detained at 12:02 a.m.
The names of the five victims have not yet been released nor has Aldrich’s motive for the shooting, though the shooting is eerily reminiscent of the 2016 Pulse massacre in Orlando, Florida, during which gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 others.
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All morning, community members, LGBTQ organizations, and elected officials alike have been issuing statements in response to yesterday’s mass shooting, offering their condolences to the victims’ families, calling for gun reform, and noting that the attack happened on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, which happens annually on November 20 to memorialize those murdered as a result of transphobia.
One person who joined the chorus was none other than gay-hating, gun-loving congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the U.S. representative for Colorado’s 3rd congressional district, which shares a border with Colorado’s 5th congressional district, where Colorado Springs and Club Q are located.
“The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful,” Boebert, who just narrowly won her reelection effort by less than 1,000 votes, tweeted. “This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers. This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly.”
The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful.
This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers.
This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) November 20, 2022
Um… Seriously? Where do we even begin with this one???
Boebert, who owned a gun-themed diner called Shooters Grill until last July, has spent the past several years trolling LGBTQ people while voting against background checks and calling any sort of common sense gun reform “an all-out assault on the Second Amendment.”
Related: Lauren Boebert releases psychotic video attacking Nancy Pelosi and ending with gunshots
She has a 92% approval rating with the NRA and a 0% rating with HRC and, in January 2021, co-signed a letter, along with more than 80 other Republicans, demanding Speaker Nancy Pelosi allow members of Congress to bring guns to work.
Oh, and last December she posted a photo of her four kids holding assault weapons in front of their family Christmas tree.
The Boeberts have your six, @RepThomasMassie!
(No spare ammo for you, though) pic.twitter.com/EnDYuXaHDF
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 8, 2021
Here’s how folx are responding to Boebert’s “thoughts and prayers” tweet this morning…
Glaringly absent from her thoughts and prayers, what community was targeted. This will explain why!! https://t.co/qUrxYbzhCq
— Gary McDougall (@GMC_59) November 20, 2022
You’ve spread constant hate about the LGTBQ community for years. You are part of this violence you hateful little fraud. You’re right there cheering it on.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) November 20, 2022
What did you think would happen when you make an enemy out of people who don’t fit into your little box of normal, when you encourage people to arm themselves, and when you embrace groups founded upon racial hatred and violence?
— Kal – Those who don’t think, don’t question. (@TruthJustis4USA) November 20, 2022
This you pic.twitter.com/sMwOlyni68
— Wu-Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) November 20, 2022
You’ve spread constant hate about the LGTBQ community for years. You are part of this violence you hateful little fraud. You’re right there cheering it on.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) November 20, 2022
you posting pictures of guns all the time and your lies does not help
— Eugene (@EugenePatriot1) November 20, 2022
Yeah sure BoBo pic.twitter.com/hnpKsXZ6hD
— Don (@Don65752942) November 20, 2022
This is completely disingenuous.
“Thoughts and prayers!” don’t save lives.
— Bluto Blutarsky (@blutarsky_bluto) November 20, 2022
You did this https://t.co/qtgoWevhsy
— Zak (He/Him) (@PhysEdByZak) November 20, 2022
Y’all have been making the LGBTQ community the villains. This is on the Republicans that have been spouting it for 2 years. But I’m sure you won’t care and you’ll keep going.
— GayMouthOfTheSouth (@gaymouthofsouth) November 20, 2022
You can start by not showing pictures of your family holding assault rifles. Time to stand up for the PEOPLE and not the NRA
— WxSalem Oregon (@WeatherSalem) November 20, 2022
You’re basically the leading sponsor of hating marginalized communities and promoting guns.
You own this, Boebert.— Martha Jane (@CanaryMartha) November 20, 2022
Save it Lauren, you have been very clear about being pro-gun and anti-LBGTQ. You don’t get to ignite a fire then cry for the victims.
— Lois Lane (@NiceorNecessary) November 20, 2022
Ironically, boebert, you might have more influence than just about any other American on this issue. Stop radicalizing your base to glorify guns and fear lgbtq+ people. start there if you really care.
— COsnowman (@angryCOsnowman) November 20, 2022
How do you type with so much blood on your hands?
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) November 20, 2022
abfab
LAUREN BOEBERT is ________________. I really don’t have the right words for her.
RoyM
I’d think that Boebert would be right up your alley! Your penchant for being a cheerleader for neo-fascist states makes it pretty clear who you are and what your beliefs are. Seems to me, you and Boebert are 2 peas in a pod.
Covid Hermit
She BARELY won re-election. Clearly there are a lot of people in her district that are tired of her and her headline-seeking antics. Hopefully she loses in 2024.
cuteguy
Boobert is another MAGA loser who causes destruction then tries to gaslight and deflect,
abfab
I know this is going to sound sick but I really don’t care. I’d like to see one of her offspring have a temper tantrum on Christmas morning and gun down the entire family.
m
No, those are beautiful words. For that, I hope “xmas” comes early for that family. I’ll pray to all the past, present and even future sky daddies for it
Thank you being you.
Jon in Canada
No no dear, that doesn’t sound sick, it’s sounds like justice.
Ronbo
More hate and violence is not the answer… (although the irony is well deserved). Our greatest power is expanding the community by embracing people – not shooting them. I’d prefer to see her children embrace our community – rejecting Mama crazy.
Colorado Springs is the home of the certified hate-group “Focus on the Family” and yet THIS fact has been avoided and rarely mentioned in the corporate media. Can you imagine a news story that doesn’t (falsely) associate violence, crime and antifa (not even an actual or real org) with Black Lives Matter?
Corporate money buys conservative framing on: FOX, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc…. Vote each and every opportunity, using your money voting with each purchase. (avoid: AT&T, Coke, Intel, Valero Energy, Pzifer, Charter, Chevron, Exxonmobil, Delta Airlines)
Kangol2
She’s a moronic monster. This horrific anti-LGBTQ terrorist attack by Anderson Lee Aldrich is heartbreaking and terrifying, and Boebert’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric (the attacks on drag queen story hour, the anti-trans rhetoric, the pushing for anti-gay discrimination, etc.), like the anti-LGBTQ laws and anti-LGBGT policies of the right and Republican Party, create the conditions for attacks like this.
abfab
Her and MTG. Ya know, if these cretins get the bully pulpit they so desire it will be a good thing. They will lay it all out and the world will laugh…..and we will survive. More hate, yes. But it will repel the kids who will be our next best hope. Voting them all out.
bachy
Colorado is seriously lagging behind America’s emerging resolve to eliminate the psychopaths from government. This woman should be spewing her poisonous bullsh|t from under a rock – not in Congress!
abfab
Word.
m
I pray this qunt has a gay child in that bunch.
mikeTigg
She’d probably gun it down if it ever came out.
macattack
You IDIOT the violence does have to stop. Look to the Republicans in CONGRESS who vote NO on banning AK47 or licenses. Your party’ is up the NRA’s a__
Com mEnter
Graham Gremore, Hate much??? Your writing spreads more hate than any shooter. Hope at least you feel good about you, your hate, and your exploitation of tragedy.
Den
You win for stupidest comment of the day (or perhaps week).
Bobert is an unending font of hatred, disingenuousness and evil. All he is doing is shining a light on who she is.
She is the one exploiting tragedy with her comment, as she cares nothing for anybody who is not heterosexual, her brand of christian and as much a gun fetishist and fascist as she is.
Somehow his voicing a frustration we all share “spreads more hate” than a man who killed 5 and wounded 18!? Do you even have a BRAIN?
abfab
GG and Q is not spreading the HATE. It is exposing the HATE. Pay attention.
Jon in Canada
Aww, bless your willfully ignorant heart.
She and her party, and probably you as well, have been sewing hatred of LGBTQ human beings for years and you want to whine about an article that calls it out? As many a fabulous Drag Queen would say: Clueless Bitch Please.
dario717
She’s a real see you next Tuesday!
Consider This
I rather think she is a “the family that shoots together stays together” kind of nut.
[email protected]
Too bad a good person with a conceal and carry license wasn’t there to end it immediately. Why don’t bars have armed security? How many more people have to die before they figure this out?
Brian
The whole thing was over in about 5 minutes.
The problem with the “good guy with a gun” strategy is that it’s always going to be too late. The person won’t pull their gun out until there’s been a shooting, and by then, the victim is already bleeding. The cops say they were on the scene within the first 2 to 3 minutes. By then, people were already dead.
Den
Just pass some reasonable regulation of weapons that people have no need to own and the problem is solved, just as it has been in civilized progressive countries where people do not worship firearms.
And what exactly happens to you “good guy with a gun” when the police show up and have no idea who is who? Or if two “good guys with guns pull them out and neither is sure exactly which shooter is which? The whole “good guy with a gun” scenario is ludicrous, potentially causing even more bloodshed. Just regulate the guns. We have a well regulated militia. It is called the national guard and military…not every right wing loony tune with a home arsenal!
Fname Optional Lname
He was stopped by a patron who had a gun however this person hit him with it instead of shooting him.
abfab
Yeah, YOU really should have been there Sir Bankrupt. You would have saved us all. We feel so safe and secure around a big man like you. I’m swooning over you. You’re my hero. My protector. My dream man.
dbmcvey
Another person with a gun was just as likely to end with more innocent people being shot.
DBMC
It seems like the patrons handled it without guns and prevented even more deaths. A gun wouldn’t have done it any faster.
Paris in Santiago
There is no hate like christian love, as ive kept hearing all this month.
I do think its time that for states allowing conceal & carry, the queer community should learn to arm themselves and how to use a gun. In Pulse and this incident, in trans women being murdered, and terrible gay-bashing, not once has a queer community member shot back. Its time to put the fear of their god back into their eyes and get murderous bigots afraid of us. If we dont, this shit is going to keep happening.
Kangol2
A person grabbed his gun and smashed this anti-LGBTQ terrorist over the head with it to subdue him. By the time someone else might have pulled out a gun the anti-LGBTQ terrorist had already killed several people, and there’s always the danger that the concealed carry person might shoot the wrong person, making a horrible tragedy even worse. Or that the cops arriving might gun down the concealed carry person in addition to the terrorist. What should have happened is that after Anderson Lee Aldrich made a bomb threat against his mother, WHY was he able to buy guns of any sort? I mean, when are the laws that exist going to be applied? When will we get stricter laws involving firearm acquisition. The first three words of the Second Amendment are: “A well regulated….” Not, “Let all have guns with no restrictions”!
dbmcvey
More guns would likely have just ended in more innocent people being shot. The whole “good guy with a gun” is a myth. It would be better to keep bad guys from getting guns.
fur_hunter
………Sing to the tune of ‘Nothing like a Dame’ from South Pacific…………. She is just a f.. uc.. king C.. UN ..T!……….. Nothing but a C. UN… T……… She is just a f. uc …king C …UN.. T…….. She is just a….. f. ..uc k….. ing…… C.. UN… T!!!!
andyr930
Is Lauren BooBoo related to Honey? She’s definitely proof that aborted fetuses can live with just a brain stem and no brain.
RipVanWinkle
I think she is GREAT! A Great American that understands the right to free speech and the right to own a gun. You all claim you are better then her, more virtue but all I have read from those that respond is nothing but utter filthy HATE! Um.. how can you all claim to be better then her when you all are doing the exact same thing as her? Your HATE is on full display as you call her out on the very same hate you say you are against! The hypocrisy flows like the river Nile on the comment section here!
I know this post will be taken down because the “cancel culture”, the anit-free speech among you all will demand I be shut up! What are you all afraid of? I am a former Army vet, did three tours in the Iraq theater and I am a gay man. I served my country with honor and I defended the US Constitution with my own blood. The right to free speech and the right to own a gun is guaranteed. If you don’t like it MOVE to someplace were you don’t have those rights! Iraq would be a good place for those that don’t like the first and second amendments… go hang there for a while! And leave your US pass port at the border too!
I posted the above 4 hours ago and it’s still “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” Really… so you can call people all kinds of names and insult them.. but my post gets the moderation treatment! So much for FREE SPEECH and open debate!
abfab
You are a waste product.
abfab
So, you can shoot guns and have the nerve to call Iraq ”a theater” but you have no clue as to how the ”moderation” process works here? Chances are you did so much editing (although your English skills are still atrocious) before you posted. The machine gets all clogged up when you edit.
Sort of like your reasoning and suggestions to leave the country. WHo cares if you’re Gay. Being Gay does not make you a better person. You’re common.
Fname Optional Lname
Anyone going to an LGBTQ site who makes positive comments about someone who encourages hatred and violence should not expect to be embraced. She is evil and hate filled. Nobody is censoring comments and nobody is taking your guns – get off Faux news and read the room.
The person who killed people in that bar last night had an incident a year ago where he threatened to blow up members of his family with a homemade bomb and multiple weapons. He was arrested after a standoff with police and was later charged with six felonies yet he mysteriously was never prosecuted. He had mental health issues and even after this incident he had access to a firearm. Wonder how much of that had to do with the fact that his grandfather was a Republican Assemblyman..hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Nobody is saying they “don’t like the first or second amendments’, however free speech at times has consequences and gun laws need to changes to prevent people like Anderson Lee Aldrich from having access to a firearm where he can go and do Lauren Hobert’s bidding!
dbmcvey
@RipVanWinkle
You were wrong starting with your first two words.
Jon in Canada
Oh dear, another one whose mother didn’t have the decency to use a wire hanger when she had the chance. She deserves a slap upside the head.
RipVanWinkle
In reply to “abfab”. Well in the military a war zone is called a theater, educate yourself.
You seem to live in glass houses and tossing stones around! You berate me about my English skills.. mostly and name call because you have nothing else roflmao! You reduce yourself down to childish antics! Let us see what we can find wrong in your own rubbish. It is not proper grammar to start a sentence off with the word So, to do so shows lack of command of the language. By the way, it is “Who” not “WHo” and additionally the proper use of your sentence in brackets would end with a question mark, not a period. [WHo cares if you’re Gay.] Also you stated the following “You’re common.”. This is not a sentence by any rules that apply to English that I am a aware of.
Being that English is my third language I seem to know more about it then you do. Now, if you want to converse in French or Farsi I would be happy to go down that road with you. I find it rather amusing that most American only speak one language roflmao!
“abfab
So, you can shoot guns and have the nerve to call Iraq ”a theater” but you have no clue as to how the ”moderation” process works here? Chances are you did so much editing (although your English skills are still atrocious) before you posted. The machine gets all clogged up when you edit.
Sort of like your reasoning and suggestions to leave the country. WHo cares if you’re Gay. Being Gay does not make you a better person. You’re common.”
DBMC
You came on here after a true tragedy to troll. Are you happy with your life?
SDR94103
she is a nasty COONT.
RipVanWinkle
You just proved the point I was making. Name calling… so 3rd grade of you!
abfab
You passed the 3rd grade?
dbmcvey
@RipVanWinkle
Because Republicans never name call.
RipVanWinkle
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Your logic is this, well they can do it so can I. Well people murder people with knives and bats and whatnot. That gives you no right to do so. Even my sisters 8 year old daughter knows better then you it would seem.
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“dbmcvey
@RipVanWinkle
Because Republicans never name call.”
abfab
Whatnot?
RipVanWinkle
Seems you have a limited English vocabulary. Being that English is my third language it would seem the person that goes after people for English skills is rather lame themselves.
whatnot
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“abfab
Whatnot?”
DBMC
@RipVanWinkle
You come on here to troll immediately after a tragedy and you complain about name calling?
Dude, reevaluate your life.
Thad
I don’t want assault weapons in my community. Why can’t my city ban their sale? There’s plenty of other weaponry available for personal security and hunting to allow Second Anendment rights.
“Cancel culture”? Nothing cancels more than being shot to death.
abfab
Please copyright that phrase. Make bumperstickers!
RipVanWinkle
Please give a full and complete description on just what an “assault weapon” is?
The most effective hunting rifle is the AR 10 platform, it’s what I use to hunt deer and bear with. In fact I fell two deer with it over the past 30 days. I prefer deer and bear meat to store bought meat which is full of drugs and chemicals. According to people like you my AR 10 might be classed as some kind of fictional “assault weapon”, however it’s a hunting rifle 100% set up for hunting! According to you I can’t own one, why? Also, I carried many guns in the Army and I have a CC license too. I am highly trained and was in combat thus I know how to use a gun. I think I am well educated in this situation and you are not.
I also know what being shot is all about, I have 9 scars on my body from being shot. I lost my left ear from a stray that ricochet off my partners helmet as well. So please don’t lecture me on guns and what they can and can’t do.
I posted the above and it’s still “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” Really… so you can call people all kinds of names and insult them.. but my post gets the moderation treatment! So much for FREE SPEECH and open debate!
Paris in Santiago
The GOP wished more of us were dead. HOW IS THIS LOST ON PEOPLE??
It’s time to arm ourselves & protect each other. I cant understand this blind passivity to this nightmare. Its not going to get better. The 2nd amendment will not go away until we keep working at it to end it, which will take another 50 years. In the meantime, arm ourselves and protect each other.
dbmcvey
More guns in gay bars, that’ll go well.
RoyM
The reason for the blind passivity is because for the most part, members of our community are namby pamby cowards who protest and march and run their insipid little mouths, but when it comes time to actually do something, they go and scurry into denial. Until every city has a program to help arm and train our community to defend themselves. If any of you think straight America will ever be actual allies, you are sadly mistaken. We are on our own and the sooner we accept that fact and start protecting ourselves, the better off we’re going to be.
abfab
Oh wait, sorry….that was a whip she was wielding. Oh the horrors of memory loss. The gun was in Female Trouble??? Someone help me out here. John, are you out there?
abfab
OMG LOL The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.
Remember DIVINE, the Walk Like A Man video? She had her little pistol pumped and she pointed it at everyone? Paris….arm yourself. You could be one of the good guys.
mailliw110
Bullets don’t automatically go to the bad guy.
Fname Optional Lname
She is the loser girl from high school who gave hand jobs to all the jocks thinking it would help her get popular but it only established her as the school whore. She and other GOP members are absolutely responsible every time a Faux news Trump following Q-anon nut job kills American’s in the name of
“family values and Christian morality”!
dbmcvey
Prayers don’t really help.
Also, there are things that could be done to prevent this “lawless violence” but politicians like Bobert stop it from happening.
abfab
Prayers. Thoughts?
And, ”it is what it is”. They both translate into; I don’t have a clue and I’ve given up. It’s a cop-out and a tired old cliche….used by cretins…..and you know who you are.
Jimmynj
Lauren Boebert is a repulsive creature. I won’t even classify her as a human. She can take her thoughts and prayers and shove them. I hope she rots in hell.
Paul2
Ok, she’s an asshat, but can we agree it’s a nice tree!
RipVanWinkle
She is the best! So sexy, a GREAT American! We need many more like her! I’d vote for her! Why, because I believe in diversity, not group think!
dbmcvey
@RipVanWinkle
So, you decide to come on a gay website and troll right after a terroristic mass shooting. You don’t believe in diversity, you’re a bad person.
I know you’re trying to get banned so you can go back to your far right troll group and say “look, intolerance,” but you’re just showing what a jerk you are.
RipVanWinkle
Well from what I have seen from all the comments here, it’s not BUT intolerance. Just read the comments! All the name calling, all the vile accusations… BTW I am a gay man that did 3 tours in Iraq in the Army. I believe in diversity, and diversity in view points without shouting and name calling. I have been shot and part of my left ear was shot off in combat…so please don’t lecture me about anything!
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dbmcvey
@RipVanWinkle
So, you decide to come on a gay website and troll right after a terroristic mass shooting. You don’t believe in diversity, you’re a bad person.
I know you’re trying to get banned so you can go back to your far right troll group and say “look, intolerance,” but you’re just showing what a jerk you are.
DBMC
So, you’re not as gay as you claimed to be.