The newest national hero has to be Richard Fierro, the Army vet who tackled the Club Q gunman in Colorado Springs on Saturday night and beat the shit out of him. (We cats were wondering why Anderson Lee Aldrich had to be sent to the hospital, and now we know.)
The next newest national hero is surely the drag queen dancer who, answering the call from Fierro to help, stomped the gunman with her high heels. Everyone, absolutely everyone on social media wants to buy that dancer a drink. Or two or three or four. For life.
We admit it — we got a ton of satisfaction from that image. And we were so pleased that when Colorado Springs police chief Adrian Vasquez named the victims, he included the pronouns they preferred:
- Kelly Loving (she/her)
- Daniel Aston (he/him)
- Derrick Rump (he/him)
- Ashley Paugh (she/her)
- Raymond Green Vance (he/him)
"We respect all of our community members, including our LGBTQ community," Vasquez said. "Therefore, we will be identifying the victims by how they identified themselves and how their families have loved and identified them." We cats PURR.
(IMAGE: Richard Fierro, who was out for an evening of family-friendly fun at Club Q, and whose moxie ended up saving an untold number of lives that night. We cats salute him — and the drag queen.)
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