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Colorado Springs: a playground for pro-life, pro-gun Evangelical Christians
theguardian.com ^ | November 28, 2015 | Josiah Hesse

Posted on 11/28/2015 6:04:19 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

Colorado Springs, the location of an attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic that left three people dead, is a centre of rightwing Christian culture with a “wild west mentality” when it comes to guns.

The attack, by a lone gunman carrying a rifle or shotgun, took place at a clinic that is the site of regular anti-abortion protests by the city’s pro-life Christian groups.

Planned Parenthood, aware of hostility about their work, recently moved to the new facility, hoping it would provide more security for staff.

The building has been likened to a fortress by anti-abortion campaigners and Friday’s attacks revealed that it is equipped with “safe rooms” for staff to shelter in the event of such an event. It also has an extensive security camera system.

With anti-abortion policies supported by many Republican presidential candidates such as Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Jeb Bush, rhetoric attacking Planned Parenthood and other such organisations is not hard to find in the city.

Last spring, following the gruesome attack on a Colorado woman who had her unborn-baby ripped from her womb with a knife, state representative and Springs resident Gordon Klingenschmitt said the attack was “the curse of God upon America for our sin of not protecting innocent children in the womb”.

Colorado’s second largest city, with a population of 445,800, has built itself a reputation as a playground for white, pro-gun, pro-life Evangelical Christians. It is also home to one army base, two air force bases, and an air force.

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To: ilovesarah2012
Colorado's second largest city, with a population of 445,800, has built itself a reputation as a playground for white, pro-gun, pro-life Evangelical Christians.

As opposed to Chicago, the Nations' third largest city with a population of around 2.7 million people, which has built itself a reputation as a playground for black gangs and the morally corrupt, who kill at will despite the fact that guns are all but illegal in this uber-liberal cesspool.

21 posted on 11/28/2015 6:24:52 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: arthurus

He has been identified- he is a white crazy-looking dude named Robert Lewis Dear who holed up in PP but did not harm their staff or patients according to PP director.


22 posted on 11/28/2015 6:25:35 AM PST by austingirl
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To: Popman

Some people are unsubtle and need these things to be explicit or they are, at best, confused. I try not to talk to such unless they are relatives because I don’t announce the ironic nature of something I say before I say it due to it being fairly obvious.


23 posted on 11/28/2015 6:26:19 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

The Graun’s take on events is always as amusingly ignorant as it is dishonest.


24 posted on 11/28/2015 6:26:52 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Popman

People are a bit touchy right now and there have been trolls around.


25 posted on 11/28/2015 6:27:33 AM PST by austingirl
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To: arthurus

Robert Lewis Dear was the perp.


26 posted on 11/28/2015 6:28:15 AM PST by Solson (Grand Old Party 1854 - 2010 RIP.)
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To: austingirl

Apparently he chose the PP building as a matter of oportunity and convenience, perhaps because it was pretty well fortified. That fortification works both ways if the door is not locked at all times and credentials are not required for entry.


27 posted on 11/28/2015 6:28:45 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: austingirl

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28 posted on 11/28/2015 6:29:03 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I’ll bet they find this guy is a Hillary supporter. Someone who voted for’’ Hope And Change’’ . This is one of the ways the Left operates. Creating the chaos and then managing it. The real violence is taking place in the abortion clinic everyday. Some of it funded by our taxes. To paraphrase Jefferson(I believe) this is what he and The Founders warned against. The tyranny of the minority. Jefferson made reference to ‘’forcing the citizen to contribute(funds, revenue) that we he does not subscribe; is tyranny.’ Its more than that now. It’s what fascism can really look like.


29 posted on 11/28/2015 6:29:16 AM PST by jmacusa
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To: Solson

Oh dear!


30 posted on 11/28/2015 6:30:23 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: dp0622
Agreed. I've spent some time there for business, and it is a great place: natural beauty, good people, great food and lodging.

This article makes me nostalgic.

31 posted on 11/28/2015 6:31:58 AM PST by wideawake
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To: jmacusa

Maybe he had some spare parts from people he dismembered and was responding to their Craigslist ad.


32 posted on 11/28/2015 6:32:58 AM PST by wideawake
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To: MD Expat in PA; elcid1970

Colorado Springs shooting occurred at Chase Bankby

Colorado Springs shooting that the left originated at a Planned Parenthood actually occurred at a Chase Bank in what sounds like a botched bank robbery.

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2015/11/27/colorado-springs-shooting-occurred-at-chase-bank/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FireAndreaMitchell+%28Fire+Andrea+Mitchell!+Exposing+Liberal+bias+cause+the+MSM+doesn%27t+have+to.%29


33 posted on 11/28/2015 6:33:40 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Little Ray

Is it common to rob a bank with a rifle?


34 posted on 11/28/2015 6:35:18 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: arthurus
Some people are unsubtle and need these things to be explicit or they are, at best, confused.

My daughter is that way, even though she has known me for all of my life, my sarcasm throws her off...

35 posted on 11/28/2015 6:36:14 AM PST by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: almcbean
...that the shooter is from North Carolina

Yeah, that Joe Kenda show has a lot of outsiders adding to the mayhem. Then again, there is a military base rotating people nearby.

And, of course, those people that are looking for that Rocky Mountain high, as well as the local and homegrown malefactors.

36 posted on 11/28/2015 6:39:57 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: dp0622
Is this an attack article, because all it's making me want to do is pack my bags, call the airline and move there.

Bump to that.

Just when you think the media cannot sink any lower, you are reminded that the Abyss is bottomless.

37 posted on 11/28/2015 6:41:30 AM PST by o_1_2_3__
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To: ilovesarah2012

Yes. Rifles and shotguns are both common weapons for bank robberies.


38 posted on 11/28/2015 6:41:46 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Oh

give

me

about

a

million

breaks.


39 posted on 11/28/2015 6:46:10 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Cordially.)
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To: Little Ray

I want to know where this guy parked his truck.


40 posted on 11/28/2015 6:48:36 AM PST by bonfire
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