5 dead, more than a dozen injured at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado

[JosephZ]

Five people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured in a shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado, officials said.

The venue, Club Q, in Colorado Springs, described the shooting as a "hate attack," saying it was "devastated by the senseless attack on our community." At least 18 people were injured, officials said.

Police said they received the first call at about 11:57 p.m. on Saturday. They said a possible suspect was also injured and was in custody.

A suspect was among those who were transported to local hospitals, police said. The FBI was on the scene in Colorado Springs, officials said.

Club Q, on North Academy Boulevard, hosts a weekly drag show and live DJ on Saturday nights, according to its website.

Colorado LGBTQ club shooting: Suspect used legally purchased assault-style rifle

A suspect is in custody after five people were killed and 17 were injured in a shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, officials said.

abcnews.go.com

Prayers for all involved and for the families that lost loved ones.

 

[Landon Caeli]

This is the kind of stuff I worry about with the spread of 'social' conservatism. When people become radicalized in it, bad things start to happen.

 

[Tuur]

This is the kind of stuff I worry about with the spread of 'social' conservatism. When people become radicalized in it, bad things start to happen.

In the early 1970s, there was an attack on a gay bar that left 32 dead. That was long before the "social conservatism" you worry about.

 

[JosephZ]

In the early 1970s, there was an attack on a gay bar that left 32 dead. That was long before the "social conservatism" you worry about.

The Social Conservatism ideology has been around since at least the 1960's.

 

[Landon Caeli]

In the early 1970s, there was an attack on a gay bar that left 32 dead. That was long before the "social conservatism" you worry about.

Social conservatism is a concept born out of fascism. It was ripe in the regimes governed by Stalin, Hitler, Mousolini, and many other prominent movement's in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.

 

[Tuur]

If you're going to use it in the sense that I think you mean, some who fell in with Tecumseh held to "social conservatism," and it surfaced again with the Ghost Dance Movement. You can find it again in other places and other times and other cultures. That would mean it's already here and cross-cultural and apolitical as everything. As long as communism has been around, you would have "social conservative" communists, too.