Colorado Shooting

[K00L]

Yeah, and the majority of them had no idea what was happening until it was too late. Those that did see him thought it was a stunt except a few and the rest heard the shots but thought it was in the movie.

Honestly that is one of the scariest things to me. Someone just losing it and you just happen to be there when they do.

[Vindekarr]

@ hey you .. he got in from the back door of the theater and then sneaked his way to the screening .. he fired two gas canisters into the crowd and then started shooting wildly .. yelling that he is the joker .. its depressing to hear kids were killed trying to watch a movie about a hero who fights crime to help others that are in need .. he's just gonna plead insanity .. :sad: .. he deserves to be locked up for 30 years at least ..

 

I'd argue a mad dog like that deserves to be simply executed.

[Iv000]

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You need a hug, I felt horrible after reading that too http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/h/huggle.gif

 

And I agree with Vindekarr, tbh. I'm not usually for violence, I'm an altruist and I really hate violence. But when stuff crosses the line, then sh** gets serious. (excuse the language)

[K00L]

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You need a hug, I felt horrible after reading that too http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/h/huggle.gif

 

And I agree with Vindekarr, tbh. I'm not usually for violence, I'm an altruist and I really hate violence. But when stuff crosses the line, then sh** gets serious. (excuse the language)

Heh well thank you. I tend to type a lot when it comes to serious things.

 

And I agree with your second part. "But when stuff crosses the line, then sh** gets serious. (excuse the language)"

And then I get angry and things go bad. Not really I'm actually normally very controlled, unless it comes to my brothers and then I'm all for punching them. :rolleyes:

Edited July 22, 2012 by K00L

[HeyYou]

Ok, so, apparently, he bought a ticket, went into the theater, went out thru an emergency exit, grabbed his stuff, and started killing.

 

My question becomes, why aren't the "Emergency" exits alarmed? Or are they really convenience exits?? I can see things changing at theaters around the country from this.....

 

Another question I have is, ONE person with a CCW, being in the theater, and armed, could have spared a lot of folks some pain. But, the theater is a 'gun free zone'........ Well, I got news for them, it's only "gun free" if you are a law abiding citizen. You know, the folks that actually GET permits to carry weapons?? Apparently, Joe Bad Guy doesn't respect the law..... and brought his guns anyway, to a place where he was pretty much assured of an unarmed crowd. So, the gun free zone actually HELPED the criminal. Wow. Imagine that.

[K00L]

Yeah I don't know about the exits, but obviously they aren't alarmed like most. Which is really stupid. And they already have increased security around quite a few theaters. People aren't allowed to dress up when they go in to see Batman or any movie. I heard some theaters have police out watching.

 

And yeah. Agreed. That helped him a lot, but I really don't think anyone would have carried a gun in there even if they could.

And that would probably cause more problems than good to not have that rule. Then its easier for some psycho to just waltz in with a gun.

[Deleted54170User]

Yeah, and the majority of them had no idea what was happening until it was too late. Those that did see him thought it was a stunt except a few and the rest heard the shots but thought it was in the movie.

Honestly that is one of the scariest things to me. Someone just losing it and you just happen to be there when they do.

 

 

Yeah! Now I don't want to go the theaters for another reason. And now I would not want to go to prison where ever he ends up is likely to have a facility for doing the kind of work he was studying for!

 

Are we seeing the actual killer? Or did the killer (male or female) who did the killing plant him so he would take the fall?

 

 

The guy appeared to be too cool and precise. Too much like a trained military or law official. It is the militaries behavioral training which causes me to wonder.

 

Did someone who had a very strong military background train the young student? What was he studying?

He wasn't studying to become scaled down terrorist was he?

 

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Or did his study of the human being trigger his design to act, as though he were doing an experiment in a laboratory?

 

Can we see scientists practicing on all varieties of animals testing drugs, testing theories, and studying their laboratory animals as cold blooded and mindless killers?

 

A very well educated young brain surgeon going into prision would have a lot of human patient's he could practice on without society giving one single cry of insanity.

 

Or did the killer leave him with some logic of other aspect of winning attention for his own protest about the school? Only now the real questions he is challenged with drown out what he thought would be exposed.

 

I wonder why he was quitting school taking his talent and letting a future like that go to waste.

 

Think of all the people he might have been talented enough to actually help?

[FilipinoGamer804]

Theaters around America are more then probably going to change their policies after this , life is too short to be cut down by a sicko with a ar - 15 .. things need to change cause this is just too depressing :sad: Edited July 22, 2012 by FilipinoGamer804

[K00L]

What's really weird is his apartment. He had the whole thing booby trapped really professionally apparently. Where did he get incendiary devices and explosives? In fact, is there nothing that tracks what people have been buying for this very reason? 4 guns? 6000 rounds of ammo? A gas mask? Tear gas? Bombs? If I was his bank or credit card company, I'd be suspicious.

 

And it really worries me that people just snap like that. Drops out of school, buys a shitload of guns and then shoots 70 people. And all because he thought he was "The Joker"?

[Dark0ne]

First of all, the situation is absolutely horrible and a real tragedy.

 

Having said that, the 2nd amendment is a complete and utter enigma to most western folks out of the US, I think. It is to me. I love watching things like The West Wing, and catching up on the politics while I'm over there and the subject that always perks my ears up are the discussions on guns, and gun crime, in the US. I really don't get it. There seems to be a clear divide between the people who are anti-firearms for all, pro-firearms for all, and then the looneys who sit there saying "this is my gun, there are many guns like it but this one is mine".

 

I understand these situations happen all over the world. The shootings in Toronto, the tragedy in Norway..the UK has had a fair share too. But I think it's the regularity of these occurrences in the US that is so shocking. You need only to look at the gun crime statistics, with the most pertinent being homicides per 100,000 population. This figure gives you an average that ignores the fact that the US has a larger population than most countries. The USA has figures at 2.97 firearm related homicides per 100,000 people, placing them in the top 10 with such countries as Columbia, Zimbabwe, Guatemala, Paraguay, Belarus and Costa Rica. What a great collection of countries to be bundled with! In comparison the UK has a figure of 0.12 homicides per 100,000 people. Correct me if I'm wrong, but would that mean I'm 25 times more likely to be shot while in the US than I am in the UK? The mind boggles.

 

Pretty sure I read in the news recently that there was a similar incident, and that someone in the crowd had a concealed weapon and began to fire back at the gunman, only to hit other people around. My god, what a disaster. So now you've got 1 looney firing off at random and another guy trying to take him out, but hitting others in the process. When does it end?

 

It is much, much harder to get a firearm here and, as a result, the gun crime stats are far lower. So now if a looney wants to go on a killing rampage they need to use a car, or a melee weapon and, understandably, it's a lot easier to deal with that sort of looney than it is to deal with a man who can fire off 100 rounds at range with ease. It just seems common sense to me; you remove the guns, invest in your police force, everyone is safer. Surely that makes sense!? But hell, don't want to step on people's rights to bear arms! The mind boggles once more.

 

I simply sit here, scratching my head, knowing what I want to say but the words just can't formulate from being so dumb-founded by the whole thing.