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Alex McCourt, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University

Red flag laws and the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting – questions over whether state's protection order could have prevented tragedy

Flowers at a memorial near Club Q RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

The killing of five patrons in a Colorado LGBTQ bar on Nov. 19, 2022, is the latest mass shooting to garner headlines in the U.S.

Police have said they have yet to determine a motive. But one thing that has emerged is that the suspect had a history of violent plans, having allegedly threatened to attack his mother with a homemade bomb more than a year before the attack at Club Q.

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