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Army Veteran Went Into ‘Combat Mode’ to Disarm the Club Q Gunman
New York Times ^ | 11/21/22 | Dave Philipps

Posted on 11/21/2022 6:53:10 PM PST by Round Earther

COLORADO SPRINGS — Richard M. Fierro was at a table in Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends on Saturday, watching a drag show, when the sudden flash of gunfire ripped across the nightclub and instincts forged during four combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan instantly kicked in. Fight back, he told himself, protect your people.

In an interview at his house on Monday, where his wife and daughter were still recovering from injuries, Mr. Fierro, 45, who spent 15 years as an Army officer and left as a major in 2013, according to military records, described charging through the chaos at the club, tackling the gunman and beating him bloody with the gunman’s own gun.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: banglist; clubq; clubqanon; colorado; homosexualagenda; q; qanon; qanonhangout; qpatriot
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1 posted on 11/21/2022 6:53:10 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther

Mr Fiero was at the gay club

With wife and daughter

Watching a drag show

Can’t make this crap up...


2 posted on 11/21/2022 6:56:21 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Round Earther
"with his wife, daughter and friends"



What is wrong with this picture...
3 posted on 11/21/2022 6:56:43 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I’m sure everyone else was glad he was there.


4 posted on 11/21/2022 6:57:19 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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“A drag dancer was passing by, and Mr. Fierro said he ordered her to stomp the attacker with her high heels. The whole time, Mr. Fierro said, he kept pummeling the shooter with the pistol while screaming obscenities.”

The dude is nails.


5 posted on 11/21/2022 6:59:12 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: Secret Agent Man

Good thing he was there


6 posted on 11/21/2022 6:59:24 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Round Earther
Many straight people paid to see this.


7 posted on 11/21/2022 7:00:31 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Round Earther
Drag dancers often pass by during a mass shooting and take down.

s/

8 posted on 11/21/2022 7:03:17 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I wonder how many gays survived because the straight Army dude was there.


9 posted on 11/21/2022 7:03:35 PM PST by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: Round Earther

Can’t read the article without logging in??


10 posted on 11/21/2022 7:05:18 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I got stuck in that sentence too.
Didn’t families used to go bowling and to the movies?


11 posted on 11/21/2022 7:06:50 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Bikkuri

“What is wrong with this picture...”

What do you think is wrong?


12 posted on 11/21/2022 7:09:00 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: TexasGator

Lmao! WTF is that?


13 posted on 11/21/2022 7:10:42 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Secret Agent Man
Too expensive to go to a performance of Caberet....
14 posted on 11/21/2022 7:11:04 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Round Earther

Pummeled with the pistol?
All our news outlets are saying he used an AR.


15 posted on 11/21/2022 7:13:11 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Club Q?

As in club “Q”ueer?

Take family into there?


MANY of the managers in government, military and civilian lack any sort of character or morals.

They don't smoke pot, copy software or music, they attend their LGBTQIA and other special emphasis training and get their mandatory vaccines, don't get to many speeding tickets or into a bar fight... But if you were to tell them to put Jews on a train to Auschwitz, they would ultimately do it.

The leadership in both the civilian and military side of our government is full of weak minded and morally turped folks that pass today's “ethical” standards but cannot be trusted or depended on. They are the EXACT reason why years ago you had hazing and “gut checks” so that folks like that get weeded out. In some organizations (military especially) you still have gut checks and hazing (character tests essentially), but it's under the guise of training.

16 posted on 11/21/2022 7:14:10 PM PST by Red6
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To: Bikkuri

Everything. Nothing is right with it.


17 posted on 11/21/2022 7:14:11 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Round Earther

Can someone explain the first sentence to me.
I’m having issues…


18 posted on 11/21/2022 7:17:04 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Round Earther

(AFAIK) 2 of the five murder victims were straight, too.

Maybe the killer just picked out this place for the number of people.


19 posted on 11/21/2022 7:18:56 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: EEGator

I read about it in another article: They were there for a friend’s birthday party.


20 posted on 11/21/2022 7:21:46 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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