Initial reports are that the Colorado Springs gunman who shot up a gay nightclub is the same man who appeared in this story from last year.
Friday afternoon around 2:00 p.m., deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Offices responded to reports of a bomb threat on Rubicon Drive in the Lorson Ranch neighborhood, just south of the Colorado Springs Airport.
The suspect, 21-year old Anderson Lee Aldrich, refused to comply with deputies’ orders to surrender. It was reported to the Sherrif’s Office that he had a homemade bomb, multiple weapons, and ammunition.
A Tactical Support Unit, which includes the Regional Explosives Unit was called in. Around 10 homes were evacuated in the surrounding area, while an emergency text notification was sent out to homes within a 1/4-mile radius of the address.
The Regional Explosives Unit cleared both homes and did not find any explosive devices.
At around 6:00 p.m., the suspect was taken into custody and has been booked into the El Paso County Jail. Aldrich faces two counts of Felony Menacing and three counts of First-Degree Kidnapping.
That was 2021. So why was he on the loose in 2022?
While this is still a developing story, Colorado embraced elements of the pro-crime agenda, including eliminating bail, which means setting criminals loose as fast as they’re arrested. This pro-crime policy, euphemistically described as “criminal justice reform”, helped spike massive crime waves in urban areas.
Colorado also cut its prison population by a third. Another COVID pro-crime policy that helped goose crime rates.
While it’s unknown if these particular pro-crime measures factored into Aldrich being on the loose after last year’s incident, it’s a possibility to consider especially within the larger context of rising crime in Colorado.
New statewide data on Colorado’s crime rates puts hard numbers to what many in law enforcement have been saying for the past 14 months: Crime in almost all categories started going up before the pandemic and continues to rapidly rise.
Violent crime, which counts homicides, aggravated assaults, sex assaults and robberies, is up 17 percent between 2019 and 2021. Murder is up 47 percent in those two years.
Pro-crime policies have hurt a lot of people. It’s time to end the horrifying experiment in human sacrifice that is criminal justice reform because it’s hurting all of us, regardless of race, religion or other groups.
If it saves only one life, it’s worth it to lock up violent criminals and keep them locked away.
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And yet again, another violent felon known to the FBI and the local authorities, that should have been in prison at the time he committed mass murder. These stories should highlight the prosecutors, judges, and parole board members involved in these cases. These people should be as infamous as the murderers they enable.
They have released no motive yet, so don’t be surprised if Aldrich is a disgruntled gay person with a personal grudge against the nightclub owners or a person or persons who frequent the establishment.
Daniel Greenfield states the heart of the issue – if only one life is saved, it is enough. But we no longer value human life as precious, made in the image of God, or worthy of protection. The new religion teaches that some lives are more worthy than others, while some lives have negative value and need to just die and make Oprah proud.
Yes, but didn’t the people he attacked belong to an elite class of victims? Maybe if it just saves the life of one gay man, it’s worth it. Do you think that would convince the idiots who vote for this madness to change their minds?
Your so-called description of “pro-crime agenda” with no-bail releases is misleading and does NOT involve violent crimes!
This should have been a Federal case with the suspect in FEDERAL prison awaiting trial for 3 kidnapping charges! Why was he still out?
Colorado passed a “red flag” law in 2021 to prevent violent suspects from being able to possess or purchase new guns while awaiting trial. The El Paso Sheriff was notoriously opposed to such a policy and worked to “seal” any records of the suspect.
So ask why domestic terrorists are NOT treated like terrorists!
How do you define “domestic terrorist”? This guy has not expressed any political motivations or agenda. He does not appear to be part of any organization trying to institute societal, religious, or political change.
I suspect you define “domestic terrorist” simply as white hetero male with a gun.
Anyone who holds hostages and threatens victims with bombs and weapons is a terrorist. He’s supposedly from this country so guess that satisfies the “domestic” part, rather than being a “foreign” terrorist.
Terrorizing people makes you a terrorist.
“Terrorizing people makes you a terrorist.”
No offense, but that’s an asinine definition of a terrorist, as it includes anybody who yells at somebody weaker or threatens to punch them. I generally go with the more traditional definition of a member of an organized terror organization using violence to bring political or religious or other societal change. Your definition is useless.
A perfect description of the left-fascist Obama regime now in its 3rd and final phase, only they enabled themselves to terrorize by telling lies about their intentions and those were entirely political.
Once again all the kings men and all the kings horses have failed the American people again.
But this is no surprise and the people of Colorado voted for this. Elections have consequences and here is another sad example of that.
The real question is “When will our national gun fetish end?”
When will the gay fetish end tired of everything gay.
Is heterosexuality really that fragile and threatened?
Why yes, … yes, it is, but not by homosexuals, but rather by groomers, abortionists, and the malcontents of Jobama’s fascist regime.
You leftists and your fetishes, lol. Go play hide the hammer with paul pelosi and his male prostitutes.
The shooter was enabled by the Democrar Instigated Crome Wave referred to as “criminal justice reform” Dont you homosexals just love the democrats now?