US: Another mass shooting with a "known wolf" - UK Column News - 25th November 2022

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Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-25th-november-2022
- Colorado Springs: Club Q shooting
- Wisconsin Public Radio: The Club Q shooter may be charged with hate crimes. What that means in Colorado
- Washington Post: Police probe LGBTQ club shooting suspect's ties to a 2021 bomb threat
- Patrick Henningsen commentary: Let again, the perpetrator was well known to the FBI and hence not truly a "lone wolf" and the dropping of Colorado state bomb-cooking charges in 2021 suggests that law enforcement turned him
- The Denver Post: The Club Q shooting suspect identifies as nonbinary. Will that affect potential hate crime charges?
- Patrick Henningsen commentary: Did the perpetrator, Anderson Lee Aldrich, perhaps attend the club?
- Clip: CNN talking heads, so married to the narrative, are in total denial at the announcement of the predicate "Mx. Aldrich"
- AP News: Owner of gay club: Shooting comes amid a new "type of hate"—casting the shooting back at conservatives as a supposed example of what comes of disliking Drag Queen Story Hour
- US Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg tweets:
- If you're a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared ... don't you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows
- Strangely similar to Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, Florida
- 21st Century Wire: Father of Orlando shooter is long-time CIA asset (2016)
- Patrick Henningsen commentary: The Orlando shooter's father was being groomed as Hamid Karzai's successor as Afghan President
- In the Orlando case, the shooter (Omar Mateen) turned out to have been a frequent visitor to the gay nightclub "for years"
- Another parallel: timing around a US election
- Babylon Bee gets the irony right: Journalists rush to scene of shooting to determine whether it's politically useful

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