5 beautiful lives were taken in a shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs just past midnight on Sunday, and many more were injured, as they were either working or enjoying a night out. 5 lives who would have been joining family members and friends at Thanksgiving dinner this week. 
Victims of the shooting at the LGBTQ-friendly club include 2 bartenders, the mother of an 11-year-old girl, and 2 other clubgoers enjoying a carefree night before a lone gunman started firing: Kelly Loving, Daniel Aston, Ashley Paugh, Derrick Rump, and Raymond Green Vance.
Once again lives have been taken as the result of gun violence & cut short because of hatred. & it’s not only these 5 people that were impacted, but everyone else injured, everyone who lost a loved one, & the community that must now grapple with this violent act so close to home.
We must do more than offer our thoughts & prayers, although we absolutely can & should give them. We also need action & change. This same story can’t keep happening. We can’t become jaded by this happening again and again, rather it should infuriate us and make us demand change.
If you want to make a difference, to help make change, follow @momsdemand and @everytown, two organizations that are making a difference and moving humanity forward. Let’s honor these lives taken from us too soon! #endgunviolence
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