by Patricia Anthone, America Outloud:

The mass murderer who attacked the Colorado Springs LGBTQIA+ club is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Turns out, too, he’s known by local law enforcement for his violent behavior, which has included threatening to kill his own mother with a pipe bomb. That crime, which failed to trigger the use of Colorado’s “Red Flag” law, was never even charged.

The knee-jerk “hate-crime” narrative offered by the legacy media before any facts about the perpetrator surfaced, the agonized handwringing over the persecution of marginalized people incited by “hateful rhetoric” from the political Right fell apart the instant Aldrich disclosed his non-binary self-identification to his attorneys and instructed them to use “they, them” pronouns in reference to him in all dealings before the court.