he”entered the box and immediately started shooting“A 22-year-old man is suspected of having opened fire in an LGBT night club in the city of Colorado Springs, USA on the night of Saturday and Sunday, as a result of which at least 5 people died and 18 others were injured, according to the police. “There was a shooting in the local club tonight. We have eighteen wounded and five killedPolice spokeswoman Pamela Castro said, warning that this estimate is likely to evolve. The victims were taken to different hospitals in Colorado in the center of the country.
Authorities have identified the suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, without specifying whether he acted alone. The man was arrested and taken to the hospital. He was stopped on his murderous adventure.hero“, the police announced. “At least two people in the box confronted him and fought him. They managed to stop the suspect from continuing the killingsaid local police chief Adrian Vasquez. The shooter carried two weapons. “We are still working to identify the firearms and their owner, but I can confirm that the suspect used an assault rifle.“, he added.
The nightclub, called Club Q, thanked them for their quick response.the heroic customers who defeated the shooter and put an end to this hateful attack– said in the message published on Facebook on Sunday.
“We must not tolerate hatesays Joe Biden
Police officers responded at around 11:57 p.m. local time (6:57 a.m. Sunday) after receiving a call that shots were being fired at this local box office.located inside the person we believe to be the suspectPamela Castro elaborated. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has also been asked to assist local police in the investigation. Mike Smaldino, spokesman for the Colorado Springs Fire Department, said that emergency medical personnel, consisting of dozens of firefighters and 11 ambulances, were dispatched to the scene of the shooting.
“We must not tolerate hate,” echoed Washington President Joe Biden, while Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the first openly gay governor elected in the United States, announced himself.terrified and devastated“.
The Q Club thought.heartbroken by this senseless attack on our community“. The nightclub had announced an LGBT event on Saturday night.”with all kinds of gender and number identitieson the occasion of the Transgender Remembrance Day celebrated on November 20 at the international level.
This day has been organized since 1998, after the murder of a transgender woman, Rita Hester, became a symbol of the oppression suffered by the transgender community. November 20 is an invitation to commemorate the victims of transphobia.
The tragic precedent of Orlando
Colorado Springs police said they plan to hold a news conference early Sunday morning about the shooting. According to associations and FBI statistics, this new drama is part of the context of a resurgence of hostility toward transgender people.
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, an American of Afghan origin, killed 49 people and injured about fifty others at a gay club in Orlando (Florida, Southeast). US President Joe Biden last year marked the fifth anniversary of the Orlando massacre, announcing that the club would become a national memorial.
The US is paying a heavy price for the proliferation of firearms on its territory and the ease with which Americans have access to these weapons.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 601 mass shootings in the United States since the beginning of the year, including Saturday’s tragedy in Colorado Springs. A mass shooting, which he said meant four or more people were shot or killed, not counting the shooter.
One in three adults in the US owns a gun.
There are more individual weapons in the country than residents. one in three adults owns at least one gun, and nearly one in two adults lives in a home with a gun. The result of this proliferation is the very high rate of gun deaths in the United States, which is not comparable to other developed countries. In 2021, around 49,000 people died from gunshot wounds, compared to 45,000 in 2020, which was already a record year. This is more than 130 deaths per day, more than half of which are suicides. However, shootings with many victims mark the spirits the most.
Recent American history is indeed riddled with murder, with no place in everyday life feeling safe, from the company to the church, from the supermarket to the disco, from the public highway to public transportation.
One of these massacres took place at a Florida high school in 2018. on February 14 in Parkland, sparked a large-scale national movement led by young people to demand tighter individual gun control in the United States.
But despite the mobilization of more than a million protesters, the United States Congress failed to pass ambitious legislation, with many elected officials under the influence of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA), America’s first gun lobby.
In fact, in a country where the ability to own a firearm is viewed by millions of Americans as a fundamental constitutional right, the only recent legislative advances remain marginal, such as making criminal and psychiatric background checks more common than gun purchases.
Source: Le Figaro
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