Suspect in custody after deadly mass shooting at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and leaving more than two dozen injured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrested by police who were on the scene within minutes, authorities said Sunday.

The violence is the sixth mass killing this month and comes in a year when the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

This is terrible that someone can have access to a gun and just walk into a place and open fire and do so much damage. The motive isn’t clear but it’s speculated that the club was targeted because it’s a LGBTQ2s+ nightclub.

My thoughts go out to all the people that lost loved ones last night.

What are your thoughts?

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BlueVeins · 22-25

For anyone who's LGBT or sympathetic to LGBT rights, now's the time to get a passport and a gun. Doubt it coulda helped in this particular situation, but if you think things are bad now, you can't possibly imagine how bad things are going to get on our country's current trajectory. Ghouls like these only understand violence, and the worst of them are not on in nightclubs or on the streets. They reside in our state and national capitols, in our media, in hateful militias all over the countries, working relentlessly day by day to make America less safe millions. Their campaign is far from over.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@BlueVeins You are right. That is exactly where they reside. I just feel like having access to guns so easily isn’t a good thing.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@iamonfire696 I mean, I think it's a bad thing in the general case, but this particular moment in history may be a good time for it. The idea of civilians rising up and overthrowing the US government is probably a fantasy, but it can make things harder for any nascent fascist state. Also a non-zero chance we could see some sort of rift opening up in the military, and the side which the citizenry takes being relevant in that case.

I don't much like mass-shootings, but frankly they're insignificant compared to the threat of mass-scale state violence we're facing.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@iamonfire696 I also doubt we have enough time to fix the firearms problem at this point.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@BlueVeins isn’t it crazy that it’s come to that though. For a change to happen that you would have to go to those lengths.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@iamonfire696 Aye. Real talk, all these crazy mass-killings are probably more a symptom of other shit than anything else. It's no coincidence that nearly all the school shootings occur out in the suburbs, and most of the economic crime shows up in desperately impoverished inner cities. Some gun laws certainly have merit, but I do worry that they sorta get thrown around to deliberately misidentify the problems. You know?

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@BlueVeins I know exactly what you mean. You are very insightful for your young age.