The arrest warrant and supporting affidavit have been sealed in the Colorado Springs club shooting
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Mass shootings are increasing in Colorado. Here are three charts that explain the trend.
More than half of mass shootings in Colorado since 2013 have occurred in the last three years
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“It was an attack on freedom”: Hundreds remember Club Q shooting victims at vigil
Inside All Souls Unitarian Church in downtown Colorado Springs, people packed shoulder to shoulder in memory of the 5 killed Saturday night
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5 killed, 17 wounded in shooting at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs
A gunman entered Club Q just before midnight and began shooting. Club patrons were able to stop the gunman, police say. The suspect is in custody.
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Nicolais: A frightened sprint through Las Vegas casinos proved my point about the Active Shooter Alert Act
There was something surreal about sprinting through Las Vegas casinos a week ago with my wife and friends as we searched for a safe place to shelter from an alleged active shooter. A couple days before, I submitted my column on the Active Shooter Alert Act but knew it had not been published yet. The […]
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The statewide gun regulations adopted in Colorado in the wake of the Aurora theater shooting
The 2012 Aurora theater shooting, which left 12 people dead and 70 others injured, prompted Colorado Democrats to immediately begin pursuing tighter regulations on firearms. Since the attack 10 years ago Wednesday, no fewer than 10 statewide changes to gun policy have been adopted, making Colorado one of the nation’s most progressive states when it […]
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10 years after the Aurora theater shooting, how does Colorado remember?
How do you remember? Inside the theater, nothing is as it used to be. The splintered chairs are gone, replaced once and then again — now plush loungers with heated cushions, electric recliner controls and enormous cupholders. The wide screen stretches to the far corners at front. The name is no more. Theater 9 at […]
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Nicolais: The national Active Shooter Alert Act is a step in the right direction
A few days ago, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Active Shooter Alert Act in the wake of yet another mass shooting, this time during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park near Chicago. The bill is a step in the right direction. It will not solve gun violence in America and may […]
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Littwin: They said it couldn’t happen in Highland Park. In America, gun violence strikes anywhere and everywhere.
You couldn’t call it exactly fitting that the latest mass shooting in America happened in a quiet Chicago suburb during the annual Fourth of July Parade. There can be nothing fitting about a 21-year-old, apparently obsessed with gun violence and armed with a “high-powered rifle” — generally assumed to be an AR-15-style assault weapon — […]
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Littwin: If bipartisan Senate group proposes a mostly toothless gun law, should Dems support it?
Shockingly, the U.S. Senate may be on the verge of passing some kind of gun-safety law. Yes, I said it would never happen, and I might still be right. But if I’m wrong and it does get passed, it would be a mostly toothless law. Let us count the ways. It wouldn’t ban semi-automatic assault […]