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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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-springs-mass-shooting-club-q/

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SW-User

This is so horrible, and this is why it is important to keep on doing anything we can for acceptance of gays and lesbians and all the people who are still unjustly discriminated against for their desires or identities or ways of life. Where I am it usually seems as if those battles have been won, but tragedies like this and the many smaller acts of hostility and bigotry that my friends and students experience remind me that our work is not done.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@SW-User I agree with you. It’s so different here. We are so lucky.