After a horrifying mass shooting at a gay club in Colorado, the political left seeks to blame the right.

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did have an active shooter protocol, which Grishka's co-owner, Matthew Haynes, had followed to the letter.

The two owners arrived at the scene minutes after the shooting and gave surveillance camera

footage to the investigators. So this immediately raised questions as to who exactly the shooter was.

Apparently, the shooter is a 22-year-old with a, as you would guess, serious history

of violent imprecations, a person with the same name address and date of birth as the suspect

was arrested in June 2021 and charged in connection with making a bomb threat in the Lordston

Ranch community, a suburb of modest single family homes on the southeastern outskirts of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, according to a sheriff's office report at the time. A woman had called the sheriff's office to say that her son was threatening to hurt her with a homemade bomb and other weapons. According to the report, after nearly one hour standoff, the shooter or a person with the same name, surrender without incident. no bomb was found, according to the sheriff's office. So once again, we have the, we have the specter of a probably

insane person committing a mass murder. The question is how this person got his hands on weaponry,

why this person wasn't under psychiatric evaluation. This person

was known to law enforcement is what we are learning. This person had threatened his own family.

Again, this is a common threat among mass shooters, is that they threaten members of their own

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