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After Club Q shooting, Colorado Gov. Polis and state lawmakers consider next steps on gun control

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — On a frigid Tuesday afternoon in Colorado Springs, Gov. Jared Polis knelt in front of a makeshift memorial and drew a heart on the asphalt.

The Denver Post

Navy veteran who helped take down Colorado nightclub shooter speaks out: ‘Bullies aren’t invincible’

‘If I had my way, I would shield everyone from nonsensical acts of hate, but I am only one person’

The Independent UK

Avalanche outshoots Jets by 16, but Winnipeg whomps Colorado 5-0 behind Blake Wheeler’s hat trick

Special teams and goalkeeping often saved the Avalanche throughout the month of November. The penalty kill suddenly thrived after its slow start to the season, and Colorado’s league-leading power play was vicious enough to mask occasional 5-on-5 deficiencies.

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Colorado governor visits gay club shooting memorial

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has visited the memorial outside a gay club where five people were killed in a shooting attack last week

The Independent UK

Dozens of Republicans try to block same-sex marriage law weeks after Club Q massacre

The legislation comes after multiple stops and starts but also a massacre at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs

The Independent UK

After Colorado Springs shooting, LGBTQ people in red California are on edge

LOS ANGELES — After five people were shot dead in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Matthew Grigsby thought about Club 501.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: More guns lead to more shootings. Let’s challenge what gun ownership means

The mass shootings in Virginia and Colorado again call attention to the nation’s gun problem, but how deeply guns are embedded in everyday life can be seen from other random news reports:

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Two hostages rescued from booby-trapped house after gunman barricades himself inside

Residents were evacuated in Boulder, Colorado, after police rescued two hostages and surrounded a home in which a man was said to have barricaded himself inside with several weapons

Daily Mirror

Drying California lake to get $250M in drought funding

The federal government says it will spend $250 million over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around a drying Southern California lake that's fed by the depleted Colorado River

The Independent UK

Grand jury: Deputies escalated standoff with man in crisis

Grand jury indictments allege two Colorado sheriff’s deputies needlessly escalated a fatal standoff last June with a 22-year-old man experiencing a “mental health crisis.”

The Independent UK

Could Colorado's 'Red Flag' Law Have Prevented the Club Q Massacre?

If an order had been issued, it would have expired months before the attack unless police successfully sought an extension.

Reason

Deion Sanders says University of Colorado offered him job as head coach

Colorado has offered its head coaching job to Deion Sanders

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Navy veteran who helped take down Colorado nightclub shooter speaks out: ‘Bullies aren’t invincible’

‘If I had my way, I would shield everyone from nonsensical acts of hate, but I am only one person’

The Independent UK

Army veteran who helped take down Colorado nightclub shooter speaks out: ‘Bullies aren’t invincible’

‘If I had my way, I would shield everyone from nonsensical acts of hate, but I am only one person’

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Future for assault weapons ban in Senate is grim, top legislator says

The Senate is unlikely to pass a ban on assault weapons despite growing calls for tougher gun laws in the wake of the Colorado Springs massacre, a top lawmaker said Sunday.

The Independent UK

Colorado shooting victim 'wanted to save the family I found'

A member of the U.S. Navy who was injured while helping subdue a man who shot and killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado said he simply wanted to save the family that he had found

Daily Mirror

'Hero' boy, 14, dies trying to rescue two friends who fell through icy lake

Dyllan Whittenberg dove into the icy waters of Crystal Lake, Colorado, after two of his friends fell through the ice, his family have said. Aunt Yvonne Wenzel wants her nephew to be remembered as a hero

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Community response to Club Q shooting could help Colorado Springs shed 30-year-old anti-gay image

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Last weekend's tragedy at Club Q, when an attacker killed two bartenders and three customers and shot 17 others inside the nightclub before two patrons intervened, in several ways united what some view as a divided community.

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Report: Deion Sanders offered Colorado football coaching job

BOULDER, Colo — Is Deion Sanders destined for the Dal Ward Athletic Center?

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Club Q was a home, a sanctuary, a haven for countless people. 5 Coloradans share what it meant to them

DENVER — Long before a shooter walked through its doors one week ago and opened fire, Club Q on Colorado Springs’ busy North Academy Boulevard held a special place in the heart of the city’s LGBTQ community.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Biden calls for assault weapons ban as support for stricter gun laws decreases

Following back-to-back mass shootings in Colorado and Virginia, President Joe Biden spoke in favor of an assault weapons ban, a perennially proposed piece of legislation.

The Independent UK

Influential evangelical group that opposes LGBT+ rights vandalised after Colorado Springs mass shooting

Group claiming responsibily for graffiti points to Focus on the Family’s legacy of ‘hateful theology’

The Independent UK

Colorado Springs reckons with past after gay club shooting

A mass shooting at a popular gay club in Colorado Springs has resurfaced questions about the city's past and future among its residents

The Guardian - US

Will the Colorado gay club shooting be prosecuted as a hate crime?

LGBTQ Coloradans have no doubt of the motive for the deadly attack, but bias-crime legislation in the state is complicated

Tribune News Service

Editorial: A good guy without a gun: How Richard Fierro became the hero of Colorado Springs’ Club Q massacre

In Colorado Springs on Saturday night, Richard Fierro, a U.S. Army vet who’d deployed three times to Iraq and once to Afghanistan, went to an LGBTQ nightclub with his wife to celebrate a friend’s birthday. There was dancing and a drag show.

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