{"id":584,"date":"2022-11-22T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:20:53","slug":"another-known-wolf-the-colorado-springs-shooter-should-have-been-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Another &#8216;Known Wolf&#8217; &#8211; The Colorado Springs Shooter Should Have Been in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Colorado Springs police, the FBI and others investigate the scene of a shooting at Club Q on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colo. An attacker opened fire in a gay nightclub late Saturday night. (Helen H. Richardson\/The Denver Post via AP)\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-1068x711.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/AP22324743430498-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Colorado Springs-Shooting\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorado Springs police, the FBI and others investigate the scene of a shooting at Club Q on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colo. An attacker opened fire in a gay nightclub late Saturday night. (Helen H. Richardson\/The Denver Post via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>What does someone have to do in Colorado Springs to be arrested, prosecuted and tossed in jail. A lot, it seems, but making a bomb threat that results in the evacuation of a neighborhood and being charged with felony kidnapping don\u2019t seem to be enough to bring the law down on you.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Springs\u2019 criminal element has surely taken note.<\/p>\n<p>The piece of human detritus that opened fire in the Club Q gay nightclub Saturday night and murdered five people was no stranger to local law enforcement. As the AP reports . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A year and a half before he was arrested in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting that left five people dead, Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb, forcing neighbors in surrounding homes to evacuate while the bomb squad and crisis negotiators talked him into surrendering.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Yet despite that scare, there\u2019s no public record that prosecutors moved forward with felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich, or that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado\u2019s \u201cred flag\u201d law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons and ammo the man\u2019s mother says he had with him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those are some terribly inconvenient facts that aren\u2019t being allowed to get in the way of a torrent of calls from politicians and gun control advocates as they \u2014 once again \u2014 waive the bloody shirt and call for more gun control laws.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, whoever it is in the White House that writes and issues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/11\/20\/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-deadly-shooting-in-colorado-springs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statements in the name of Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u2026yet another community in America has been torn apart by gun violence. More families left with an empty chair at the table and hole in their lives that cannot be filled. When will we decide we\u2019ve had enough? We must address the public health epidemic of gun violence in all of its forms. Earlier this year, I signed the most significant gun safety law in nearly three decades, in addition to taking other historic actions. But we must do more. We need to enact an assault weapons ban to get weapons of war off America\u2019s streets.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And of course . . .<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a>. It is imperative that the new Congress make gun violence prevention a #1 priority.<\/p>\n<p>From nightclubs to elementary schools, we cannot allow our nation\u2019s weak gun laws to continue to cut innocent lives short. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GunReformNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GunReformNow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YgLuE0BsBG\">https:\/\/t.co\/YgLuE0BsBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brady | United Against Gun Violence (@bradybuzz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bradybuzz\/status\/1594426299547795458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can\u2019t be tough on crime if you\u2019re not tough on guns. And yet, media rarely question or contextualize politicians who run campaigns by stoking fears over crime while doing anything to limit the amount of guns people use to commit crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones\/status\/1594389906347806720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An LGBTQ nightclub is meant to be a safe space to let go, dance with friends, and meet new people.<\/p>\n<p>We shouldn\u2019t have to be afraid of being gunned down at Club Q or anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>We must confront the deadly combination of gun violence and hate and pass the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DisarmHate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DisarmHate<\/a> Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Giffords (@GiffordsCourage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiffordsCourage\/status\/1594332068279828481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet Aldrich clearly broke a range of laws back in 2021, some of them felonies that should have landed him behind bars and would have have made it illegal for him to own or possess firearms under current gun control laws. And no, we don\u2019t have any illusions about the effectiveness of<em> that<\/em> prohibition, but if his ass had been in the county lockup, it wouldn\u2019t have been in Club Q on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the local powers that be seem to be doing everything they possibly can to avoid questions about why Aldrich was never prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The county sheriff\u2019s office declined to answer what happened after Aldrich\u2019s arrest last year, including whether anyone asked to have his weapons removed. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epcsheriffsoffice.com\/sites\/default\/files\/news-releases\/MR%2021-061%20Sheriff%27s%20Office%20Responds%20to%20Bomb%20Threat%20in%20Lorson%20Ranch%20Neighborhood.pdf\">press release<\/a>\u00a0issued by the sheriff\u2019s office at the time said no explosives were found but did not mention anything about whether any weapons were recovered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Spokesperson Lt. Deborah Mynatt referred further questions about the case to the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>An online court records search did not turn up any formal charges filed against Aldrich in last year\u2019s case. And in an update on a story on the bomb threat, The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs reported that prosecutors did not pursue any charges in the case and that records were sealed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Never mind all that, though. As far as anyone in government and the media are concerned, Saturday\u2019s atrocity is yet another example of why America has too many guns and Americans have too many rights to own and carry them. They\u2019re not about to let a crisis go to waste, no matter what the facts of what\u2019s happened in Colorado Springs over the last 18 months may be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/another-known-wolf-the-colorado-springs-shooter-should-have-been-in-prison\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Springs police, the FBI and others investigate the scene of a shooting at Club Q on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colo. An attacker opened fire in a gay nightclub late Saturday night. (Helen H. Richardson\/The Denver Post via AP) What does someone have to do in Colorado Springs to be arrested, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}