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 ...
Mr Fiero was at the gay club
With wife and daughter
Watching a drag show
Can’t make this crap up...
"with his wife, daughter and friends"
I’m sure everyone else was glad he was there.
“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.
Good thing he was there
s/
I wonder how many gays survived because the straight Army dude was there.
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I got stuck in that sentence too.
Didn’t families used to go bowling and to the movies?
“What is wrong with this picture...”
What do you think is wrong?
Lmao! WTF is that?
Pummeled with the pistol?
All our news outlets are saying he used an AR.
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.
Everything. Nothing is right with it.
Can someone explain the first sentence to me.
I’m having issues…
(AFAIK) 2 of the five murder victims were straight, too.
Maybe the killer just picked out this place for the number of people.
I read about it in another article: They were there for a friend’s birthday party.
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