 Last night was a really fun energetic high high energy night. I mean we had a great drag show at nine o'clock till eleven. You know everyone was having a good time. We come here to have community to have a safe place to gather to drink together to cheers together to to have a good night and last night was that until it wasn't. You just heard from Michael Anderson who was one of the survivors of the mass shooting in Colorado Springs at Club Q and we'll hear more about what he has to say because he describes the details and the chaos and the mass confusion and it's genuinely disturbing. But let's talk about the details overall because I think that as most people already know this was a hate crime that was incited by hate mongers online with very large platforms and this isn't something that's going to get them to rethink their rhetoric and do better. This is exactly what they wanted. So what happened in Colorado Springs? Well as ABC News explains a 22 year old man has been charged with hate crimes for allegedly killing five people and injuring 25 others in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado official set. The suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich allegedly began shooting with a long rifle as soon as he walked into Club Q in Colorado Springs late Saturday night. Colorado Springs police chief Adrian Vasquez said at least two people whom authorities described as heroes then confronted Aldrich and fought with him which saved more lives police said Aldrich had considerable ammo and was extremely well armed Colorado Springs mayor John Souther told Good Morning America on Monday. So just stop for a moment and think about how bad this could have been. He was planning to do mass damage and he did a lot of harm but had those two heroes not intervened more people could have been killed and at the time that I record this video we don't know all of the victims but two of the three of them are trans. So this is a tragedy that could have possibly been prevented had this individual not been whipped into a frenzy by hate mongers online. Now some additional details about the suspect here. So according to NPR a year and a half earlier the suspect allegedly threatened his own mom with a homemade bomb forcing all of their neighbors to evacuate but yet Colorado's red flag laws weren't triggered and he ended up evading the law which led to him legally purchasing the weapon that he used at Club Q. Now the suspect is also reportedly the grandson of former GOP lawmaker from California Randy Vopel who compared the January 6th insurrection to the Revolutionary War. So when you have influences like that in your life who celebrate violence as a good thing well it's no surprise that this is what happens especially if you already have a history of violence and you hold your own mother hostage. So you can see how somebody like that could easily be whipped into a frenzy by hate mongers online who claim that queer people are endangering children in the United States of America. We'll get to that in a second here but first let's get to Michael Anderson because he's gonna share what happened and just to give you a warning this is very disturbing but he thought he was going to die so he explains what happened when the shooter came in let's listen. I was behind the bar working when I heard a few loud shots go off I didn't know what it was at first but I looked up and I saw the silhouette or shadow of a guy holding what looked like a rifle or some sort of long gun and at that point the shots kept going off so I ducked behind the bar and once I was on the ground glass was just flying all around me and at that point I really got scared for my life. What was your plan I mean what are you thinking did you make a plan to hide were you gonna fight this guy what was going through your mind? I definitely did not want to fight this guy for sure that's I'm not really like that but I was just I wanted to get out of there I was scared I was trapped I wanted to get out of that building so I ran to the patio and I was hiding between there's a space between a booth and a wall and I crouched right there on the ground in between that spot and a group of individuals had managed to open a closed door to an exterior patio and they all flied out and then they had to hop over a privacy fence to escape the club once they all got out the door shut and they were holding it shut they were holding it so no one else the shooter or anybody could get out I didn't know that but I I if I had run to try and get I wouldn't have been able to get out so essentially I was trapped in in that small little tiny room and I had a co-worker with me and another woman with me and we were all just huddled together just praying that it would end did he come in that room um all I saw I popped my head up of over the booth and I saw like the barrel of a gun like like poked into the patio room I saw just the tip of it and it was at that point that I legitimately thought I was about to get shot like I didn't know I felt like a fish trapped in a barrel I didn't know where to go I I didn't have my phone I didn't have anything so I was just so scared I wouldn't be able to talk to my mom or talk to anybody um you know in that situation so terrifying yeah um after that passes you're still hearing the gunshots and then they stop right so once I saw the the rifle enter the room I just put my head down and prayed uh 10 seconds or so later it got silent all you could hear was the the the dance music you know bumping through the club but it was really really eerie because normally when you hear that you hear people you know having a good time it was dead silent in there um so it was silent for about a minute or two before I chose to get up and I I didn't want to be trapped there anymore I needed to do something I needed to get out of there so I got up and and I went inside and that's when I saw the the shooter being beat up by those very very very brave patrons or whoever were they on top of him at that point they were they were kicking him he was lying on the ground they were kicking him punching him yelling at him and I don't know who that was but I am so grateful I will be grateful for whoever that is for the rest of my life because this could have been very different for me yeah I can't imagine how terrified he must have been I can't imagine how stunned and traumatized everyone who was there will be for the rest of their lives it's just genuinely heartbreaking to know what happened and I don't really have the words to comfort you it's just sad I feel nothing but heartbreak and sadness for all of the victims there now let's not mince words when we talk about this this is the fault of individuals like Matt Walsh and Chaya Rychik of libs of TikTok and I need people to understand that it's not like this is an accident and now all of a sudden they're going to rethink the rhetoric that they use and stop spreading lies about queer people no this is what they wanted when queer people die no matter however they die that's a victory for them so if they can whip lunatics up into a frenzy and get them to do hate crimes against queer people that's a victory for them this is what they wanted if they can deny gender from and care to trans youth and get them to kill themselves that's a victory for them they want queer people dead which is why they do this and we'll talk a little bit more about this later in a different video but we need to be very clear blood is on the hands of individuals like Matt Walsh and Chaya Rychik of libs of TikTok was already fear mongering about a different organization from the same state mere hours after this mass shooting took place so she was fear mongering about an organization that hosts drag shows for queer youth suggesting that this was a danger to them and contrary to popular belief Rychik doesn't just share videos of what other people says she doxes people and encourages harassment against them and the lies that she spread led to Boston Children's Hospital getting a bomb threat and people haven't been following the story but it's still happening this week alone Boston Children's Hospital had to be evacuated three different times due to bomb threats over their gender from and care that they provide to trans youth so the reaction from these folks isn't going to be oh my god I can't believe that my words could could have possibly influenced someone to do this they're celebrating this you know that that's what they're doing and the right is largely trying to pretend as if they're not culpable and the blood isn't on their hands but it is when you lie about an entire community and tell people that they are a danger to children this is what happens somebody tries to take up action against them to protect children or whatever this idiot's motive was so we'll get into that more in a different video video but this is just tragic and heartbreaking now and I wanted to share the story here and I absolutely feel horrible for the families of the victims and the victims themselves who just wanted to be in a space with other queer people where they could be themselves and not have to hide who they are but this idiot infiltrated their space murdered them and now those lives are gone never to come back it's just it's truly heartbreaking to think about but this is something that unfortunately is going to continue to keep happening so long as right-wing hate longers like Chaya Rychik and Matt Walsh continue to lie about queer people and again it's not just an unintended consequence of their rhetoric it's exactly what they want