Colorado Shooter Is Reportedly Grandson of MAGA Lawmaker, Has History of Domestic Violence

[Batcat]

Interesting..a link to the Crazies..how..not..surprising:

Anderson Lee Aldrich: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Anderson Lee Aldrich is the suspect accused of perpetrating a mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs on November 19, 2022, killing five and injuring 25.

heavy.com

MSN

Late Saturday night, a 22-year-old man identified as Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly killed five people and injured dozens more at the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs. Aldrich, who’s currently in police custody, has also been identified by Heavy as the grandson of California state Assemblymember Randy Vopel, a pro-Trump Republican who likened the Jan. 6 insurrection that killed five to the Revolutionary War.


California state Assemblymember Randy Voepel, who supported the Jan. 6 insurrection, is the grandfather of the Club Q shooter.© Photo: @RandyVoepel/Twitter, AP
The extent of Aldrich’s relationship to his grandfather isn’t immediately clear, but tellingly, the Republican Party has spent the last several months in particular escalating their attacks on queer and trans people. In addition to Aldrich’s ties to a far-right elected official who glorified violence on the Capitol, he has a documented history of violence—but obtained an AR-15 nonetheless.

In 2021, Aldrich’s mother called the police on her son, reporting that he was threatening her with a homemade bomb and other weapons. Police responded to the threat by evacuating part of the neighborhood and engaging in a standoff with Aldrich, before he surrendered and was charged with five felony counts including kidnapping and felony menacing. More than two-thirds of mass shootings are domestic violence incidents or perpetrated by shooters with a history of domestic violence, a 2021 study found.
According to the Washington Post, it’s not clear why local prosecutors declined to pursue charges in the case, and court records for the case were placed under seal, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. Further, Aldrich seems to have skirted Colorado’s “red flag” gun law that allows authorities to confiscate guns from individuals with histories of mental illness or violence. Colorado Springs is notably in El Paso County, one of 2,000 counties nationwide that identify as “Second Amendment Sanctuaries.” The Associated Press notes that the county “appears especially hostile” to Colorado’s red flag law and went so far as to pass a 2019 resolution condemning the law.

How exactly is this grandfather in any way responsible for the actions of his grandson? Did he raise him?

What I also want to know is if firearms are banned in the club and if so how many armed guards were on duty.

ANY GUN-FREE ZONE THAT HOLDS A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE ADEQUATE ARMED SECURITY ON SITE.

 

[mamooth]

Ummm, the DNCCP IS the party of pedophiles.

Keep in mind there the absolute infallibility of the "Every Republican accusation is a confession" rule.

When has that rule ever not been correct?

 

[Canon Shooter]

Aldrich, who’s currently in police custody, has also been identified by Heavy as the grandson of California state Assemblymember Randy Vopel

Holy shit, I know Randy Voelpel. He was the Mayor of Santee, California when I lived there.

I tend to be more conservative than not, but he's definitely a bit more out on the right-wing fringe...

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Better the left pounces on why in 2021 he was charged with six violent felonies, cut loose, charges dropped, and records sealed.

Meh, I guess it's just easier to go after the low hanging fruit.....I'm surprised it took them this long as the info has been out a couple of days.

Im not sure what you are saying. He wasnt convicted of anything.

Should people who have only been charged with something be denied their rights ?
Is that constitutional ?

 

[theHawk]

The extent of Aldrich’s relationship to his grandfather isn’t immediately clear

But you won’t let that stop you from blaming “MAGA” grandad for this loon’s actions.

 

[theHawk]

Im not sure what you are saying. He wasnt convicted of anything.

Should people who have only been charged with something be denied their rights ?
Is that constitutional ?

No, it’s not constitutional. Since when would that stop a communist leftwing Democrat?

 

[1srelluc]

Im not sure what you are saying. He wasnt convicted of anything.

Should people who have only been charged with something be denied their rights ?
Is that constitutional ?

Not saying if dropping the six felony charges was justified or not, just something that needs looking into given the leftist bent of CO these days.

 

[Rogue AI]

When all else fails the liberal talking points jump to guilt by association. How quaint. The police have still not released the motive. Although the sheer desperation that this time it might not be a liberal gender confused psycho is rather sad and obvious.

 

[CarsomyrPlusSix]

And if any of you conservatives here ever called leftists "groomers",

Have you considered shutting up, groomer?

People have responsibility for their own actions. Calling out you people who want children mutilated and talked to incessantly about sex while they are in preschool or kindergarten and wanting to normalize stuff that is marginal at best - instead of just focusing on, you know, numbers and language - causing obvious social contagion… this drag show for kids and sexualization of kids shit when there’s no call for any of it…

Calling you people out for that doesn’t make anyone shoot anyone. It’s just noticing your group’s shitty, nonsensical, obviously incorrect behavior. There shouldn’t need to be laws about such things but you leftoids are this fucked up and want to groom very young children into your fucked up ideology, so unfortunately I guess we need laws.

For example, Colorado needs laws to shut down places like that shithole.

 

[my2¢]

I find "guilt by association" as rather low hanging fruit for political partisans.

 

[Independent thinker]

Interesting..a link to the Crazies..how..not..surprising:

Anderson Lee Aldrich: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Anderson Lee Aldrich is the suspect accused of perpetrating a mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs on November 19, 2022, killing five and injuring 25.

heavy.com

MSN

Late Saturday night, a 22-year-old man identified as Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly killed five people and injured dozens more at the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs. Aldrich, who’s currently in police custody, has also been identified by Heavy as the grandson of California state Assemblymember Randy Vopel, a pro-Trump Republican who likened the Jan. 6 insurrection that killed five to the Revolutionary War.


California state Assemblymember Randy Voepel, who supported the Jan. 6 insurrection, is the grandfather of the Club Q shooter.© Photo: @RandyVoepel/Twitter, AP
The extent of Aldrich’s relationship to his grandfather isn’t immediately clear, but tellingly, the Republican Party has spent the last several months in particular escalating their attacks on queer and trans people. In addition to Aldrich’s ties to a far-right elected official who glorified violence on the Capitol, he has a documented history of violence—but obtained an AR-15 nonetheless.

In 2021, Aldrich’s mother called the police on her son, reporting that he was threatening her with a homemade bomb and other weapons. Police responded to the threat by evacuating part of the neighborhood and engaging in a standoff with Aldrich, before he surrendered and was charged with five felony counts including kidnapping and felony menacing. More than two-thirds of mass shootings are domestic violence incidents or perpetrated by shooters with a history of domestic violence, a 2021 study found.
According to the Washington Post, it’s not clear why local prosecutors declined to pursue charges in the case, and court records for the case were placed under seal, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. Further, Aldrich seems to have skirted Colorado’s “red flag” gun law that allows authorities to confiscate guns from individuals with histories of mental illness or violence. Colorado Springs is notably in El Paso County, one of 2,000 counties nationwide that identify as “Second Amendment Sanctuaries.” The Associated Press notes that the county “appears especially hostile” to Colorado’s red flag law and went so far as to pass a 2019 resolution condemning the law.

There are lots of people running around out there who shouldn't be free and yet we just let them run around loose until something like this happens. The left are just too damned worried about the incarceration rate and social justice. And, the stupidity of the idea that we can let all the criminals run around loose but keep guns away from them is ludicrous and makes no sense. Criminals running around loose not only get guns anyway but they are still criminals and victimize society in many ways.

 

[Marener]

There are lots of people running around out there who shouldn't be free and yet we just let them run around loose until something like this happens. The left are just too damned worried about the incarceration rate and social justice. And, the stupidity of the idea that we can let all the criminals run around loose but keep guns away from them is ludicrous and makes no sense. Criminals running around loose not only get guns anyway but they are still criminals and victimize society in many ways.

Why do you reflexively blame the left for this individual’s lack of prosecution?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Not saying if dropping the six felony charges was justified or not, just something that needs looking into given the leftist bent of CO these days.

But folk are pointing to his history and remarking how he was still able to get a gun.Maybe it should be a privilege and not a "right" ?

 

[Independent thinker]

Why do you reflexively blame the left for this individual’s lack of prosecution?

It is the left who constantly gripe about our high incarceration rate. It is the left who pardon 45,000 criminals. It is the left who let people out on zero bail. It is the left who want to take guns away so that they can let criminals roam our streets and not have access to guns. It is liberal judges who don't sentence criminals to the time they should serve. It is the left who would rather let thugs and protesters vandalize and loot, ordering their police to stand down and let it happen because they don't want to make the situation worse and are afraid to shoot a black person. So, they just let crime happen.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

This is turning into a maga nightmare.
The grandson of a maga nut shoots up a gay bar after a year of trans maga hatred.
He is captured by an immigrant and a drag queen in a town where the nutty sheriff doesnt enforce red flag laws.
Crazy people lead to tragic outcomes.

 

[Auld Phart]

This is turning into a maga nightmare.
The grandson of a maga nut shoots up a gay bar after a year of trans maga hatred.
He is captured by an immigrant and a drag queen in a town where the nutty sheriff doesnt enforce red flag laws.
Crazy people lead to tragic outcomes.

The grandson of a maga nut shoots up a gay bar after a year of trans maga hatred.

What does his ancestry have to do with his actions?

Do you march in lockstep with your grandfather?

I certainly don't.

 

[Marener]

It is the left who constantly gripe about our high incarceration rate. It is the left who pardon 45,000 criminals. It is the left who let people out on zero bail. It is the left who want to take guns away so that they can let criminals roam our streets and not have access to guns. It is liberal judges who don't sentence criminals to the time they should serve. It is the left who would rather let thugs and protesters vandalize and loot, ordering their police to stand down and let it happen because they don't want to make the situation worse and are afraid to shoot a black person. So, they just let crime happen.

It’s also the right that constantly gripes about their political compatriots being prosecuted for crimes.

El Paso is a deep red county to the point that they’ve declared themselves a sanctuary county from the type of red flag laws that are supposed to prevent these kinds of mass killings.

This didn’t happen in a liberal utopia. It happened in a very conservative location.

 

[okfine]

the state enacts a Red Flag law, then doesn't enforce it?

Of course not

Why would they enforce a law keeping criminals from getting/using firearms?

It's the County Sheriff who refuses and isn't enforcing the Red Flag law.

 

[okfine]

Not saying if dropping the six felony charges was justified or not, just something that needs looking into given the leftist bent of CO these days.

Colorado Springs is the political opposite of Denver.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

This guy was deranged. That he was out on the street is a direct result of democrat policies. Instead democrats want to use this incident, that they created, to call everyone who objects to child molestation responsible.