Shannon Watts

BREAKING: A shooting at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs killed five people and wounded 18 others overnight. Police are describing it as a “hate attack.”

The venue is described as a gay and lesbian nightclub that hosts theme nights including karaoke and drag shows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/20/colorado-springs-lgbtq-clubq-shooting/

Live updates: Suspect in deadly LGBTQ club shooting was subdued by patrons, Colorado police say

Colorado Springs police said five people were killed and at least 25 were injured in the shooting at the Club Q nightclub. The suspect was hospitalized.

The Washington Post
Nov 20, 2022 at 1:19pmWeb
Show threadShannon WattsNov 20, 2022
On Club Q’s Facebook page, they thanked the "quick reaction of heroic customers" for subduing the gunman. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=556867989780390&id=100063715805677&mibextid=qC1gEa
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Show threadDorothy4ClimateNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts
Show threadBonnie SchwertnerNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts So much violent hatred in the hearts of some people. All they need to act is a well-placed word from someone.
Show threadBrian BroadusNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, identified as suspect. I'm sure that there is a current rush to sift the Internet for his profiles.
Show threadOtownKimNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts unfortunately it's just another day in America. I am so heartbroken over and over again
Show threadspringwoodNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts sad to hear that. Do you think gun is terrible?
Show threadMs Starry NightNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts horrific. I don’t even know what to say. It keeps happening. America is not a safe place. Nowhere is safe
Show threadOtownKimNov 20, 2022
@MsStarryNight @shannonrwatts no truer words! Literally no where is safe because of Gun nuts!!
Show threadkms✍🏻Nov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts
It’s the same Colorado Springs where an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic killed 3 and injured 9.
Absolute madness.
Show threadBrian BroadusNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts Jesus fucking Christ.
Show threadBrian BroadusNov 20, 2022

@shannonrwatts Colorado Springs is the reactionary Centennial State municipality, its center of evangelicalism.

Let's no forget how cruelly changed the lives of the wounded will be while we mourn the dead.

Show threadStephanie en ChileNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts Shannon, with all respect, I think that you should use CW (content warning) for this kind of publication.
Show threadSiyehNov 20, 2022
@StephduChili are you LGBTQ?
Show threadStephanie en ChileNov 20, 2022
@pandemoniumcrutch I'm not. What would it change if I were?
Show threadSiyehNov 20, 2022
@StephduChili yes. we, as queer folks, don't get to "opt out" of having violence done to us. So since you're literally unaffected by it, perhaps you should hush.
Show threadStephanie en ChileNov 21, 2022
@pandemoniumcrutch because I'm not LGTBIQ2÷, you assume that I'm not affected by reading that a shooting has killed 5 and wounded 18 Human Being?
With all due respect you should know that not all the world is used to the level of violence that you're used to in the US and that a content warning is nothing else than respect for people of many horizon that could be triggered by this kind of information and need to get prepared to read it.
Show threadSiyehNov 21, 2022
@StephduChili well, that sorts that. g'nite, you odious bigot.
Show threadGGForThePeopleNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts Devastating. 💔
Show threadIrisVNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts 😔🙏🏾
Show threadglasgavlenNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts I'm sick. Absolutely sick and tired of this disgusting unnecessary violence. Holding the CO Springs community in my heart today.
Show threadShelby WynneNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts This is so tragic! Yet we find ourselves having these same discussions over and over again. It's exhausting! And it's long overdue for some real, effective and lasting gun safety reform. Yes congress passed the most significant gun reform legislation in decades, however much more needs to be done. And soon!!
Show threadMusic is the AnswerNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts please use CW’s for these 🙏
Show threadSiyehNov 20, 2022
@JasonHindle are you LGBTQ?
Show threadMusic is the AnswerNov 20, 2022
@pandemoniumcrutch Hi! No I’m not. Boring old white CIS male lol.
Show threadSiyehNov 20, 2022
@JasonHindle then kindly hush.
Show threadMusic is the AnswerNov 20, 2022
@pandemoniumcrutch are you a former victim of a shooting? Then kindly hush.
Show threadAlly ArandaNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts Just awful.
Show threadRicardusNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts CWs would apply here.
Show threadAlan BucknamNov 20, 2022
@shannonrwatts CW for violence, please, Shannon.
Show threadSiyehNov 20, 2022
@bucknam are you LGBTQ?
Show threadAlan BucknamNov 20, 2022
@pandemoniumcrutch an ally in Colorado who has had enough friends directly impacted by so many shootings in this state that it’s hard to talk about, much less have unexpectedly pop up on a site I came to explicitly because it had things like CWs built into the infrastructure.
Show threadSiyehNov 20, 2022
@bucknam sounds like a conversation to have with your friends who *are* directly impacted by violence first.
Show threadAlan BucknamNov 20, 2022
@pandemoniumcrutch since you don’t know me, my history, and the context I’ll let this slide but the fact that you don’t think I haven’t discussed this with folks says a lot about your assumptions, and makes me wonder why I engage with randos on the internet in the first place.