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Gun attack at Batman film premiere in Denver [W:120]

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Wonder what firearms he used?

I think its tick - tick - tick until this becomes the next gun control debate - which generally will break along partisan lines serving our partisan hacks on both sides well.

I can't confirm 'cause I heard it on the local radio station, but there are some saying he had an AK-47 or similar assault rifle in addition to a hand gun and another gun.
 
My heart goes out to those who were directed and indirectly affected by this senseless shooting. The classless partisanship and finger pointing displayed by some in this thread makes me want to gag.
 
The initial reports make this sound organized and planned, if more than one shooter I personally suspect jihadi or similar anti-western / anti-American motivation. Too many dead and injured, my prayers go out to all the effected people and families.

They killed 14 and wounded 50, right? That's organized and planned. You don't just randomly start shooting up the place and cause that much carnage.
 
My local radio station has made a few comments that make it sound like this guy might have worked for the theater at some point either directly or as a service contractor. He apparently knew the layout and used that to his advantage and also allegedly timed the attack to mimic events taking place during a specific scene in the movie.

If that's the case, it makes this much more interesting.

Please keep in mind, I am only hearing this from local radio reports. I have no corroborating sources.
 
Turtle-
If we are going to have a good memory on this sort of senseless killing please don't forget the OKC bombing where a veteran militia movement white male killed 168,(19 were children) and wounded more than 680. It stood as our biggest terrorist attack until 9-11 six years later.

It happened in my home state, a good friend was within a block and was cut-up, my wife within a mile. If we are to recall who killed how many and what they were, McVeigh should never be forgotten, compared to other home-growns he was by far the most sinister and callous terrorist our nation has produced.
 
People are like fish in a barrel when sitting in a crowded dark theater. This single incident could cause a decrease at movie theaters.
You just worry about copycats now.

The guy is such a fricking coward. Even if someone in the theater had a concealed hangun this guy was protected with a bulletproof vest and riot helmet.

He needs some extreme pain applied to him.
 
Me grow up? You are the one attacking Obama for coming with a standard presidential comment.. gezz.
On no...he had to phrase it from the standpoint of me me me. ....credit grabbing blowhard that he is. It's a local matter, not a federal one. There's no "WE" about it.
 
Turtle-
If we are going to have a good memory on this sort of senseless killing please don't forget the OKC bombing where a veteran militia movement white male killed 168,(19 were children) and wounded more than 680. It stood as our biggest terrorist attack until 9-11 six years later.

It happened in my home state, a good friend was within a block and was cut-up, my wife within a mile. If we are to recall who killed how many and what they were, McVeigh should never be forgotten, compared to other home-growns he was by far the most sinister and callous terrorist our nation has produced.

He also targeted an official government building and lived under the delusion that he'd start the next revolution.
 
On no...he had to phrase it from the standpoint of me me me. ....credit grabbing blowhard that he is. It's a local matter, not a federal one. There's no "WE" about it.

Wow. This isn't about Obama at all, and I didn't see any problem with what he said. Your comments are just embarrassing.
 
Is this like some video games?

People are like fish in a barrel when sitting in a crowded dark theater. This single incident could cause a decrease at movie theaters.
You just worry about copycats now.

The guy is such a fricking coward. Even if someone in the theater had a concealed hangun this guy was protected with a bulletproof vest and riot helmet.

He needs some extreme pain applied to him.
 
I can't confirm 'cause I heard it on the local radio station, but there are some saying he had an AK-47 or similar assault rifle in addition to a hand gun and another gun.

The media always calls it an assault ridle
 
police out here are reporting this guy had a ton of explosives in his house too.

I heard the term "Booby-trapped" in reference to his apartment. Any word on the place being rigged?
 
On no...he had to phrase it from the standpoint of me me me. ....credit grabbing blowhard that he is. It's a local matter, not a federal one. There's no "WE" about it.

Trinnity, do us all a favour by leaving this thread and going back to your Hussein Obama dart board. Please and thanks.
 
I heard the term "Booby-trapped" in reference to his apartment. Any word on the place being rigged?

I saw some local video of them going in and i know they were worried about traps but nothing went off. They either disarmed it or he was just storing them.
 
Trinnity, do us all a favour by leaving this thread and going back to your Hussein Obama dart board. Please and thanks.

That'll all change once we find out the cat listenwd to Rush one time, read a Ann Coulter book, or voted Rwpublican.
 
I saw some local video of them going in and i know they were worried about traps but nothing went off. They either disarmed it or he was just storing them.

Yeah, I DID hear that none of the officers got hurt, but the fact that they evacuated the building made it seem like a pretty tense situation.
 
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this is just awful. people just wanting to go out for a few hours of innocent fun are mowed down by some crazy jackass. I wish people would stop killing each other. it is just so damned pointless.
 
A rifle and a pistol. One report stated that the rifle was an AK-47, but it was an initial report, which is unreliable with these types of events.

Possible but yes, also sounds like a guess. I would "guess" a high capacity 9mm for the handgun and something like an AR15 or AK-47.
 
Possible but yes, also sounds like a guess. I would "guess" a high capacity 9mm for the handgun and something like an AR15 or AK-47.

Whatever he was using must have had some power to it. One witness was in the next theater over and said bullets came through the walls. Theater walls are very thick, heavily insulated, and steel reinforced.
 
Whatever he was using must have had some power to it. One witness was in the next theater over and said bullets came through the walls. Theater walls are very thick, heavily insulated, and steel reinforced.

6:52 a.m.: ABC News has contacted a woman in San Diego who identified herself as the mother of James Holmes. She says she was unaware of the shooting, but Y"ou have the right person. I need to call the police... I need to fly out to Colorado."
 
Unfortunately, now taxpayers will spend millions of dollars on this guy who will consume national news for days.

In extreme instances like this I'd prefer he was shot in the head by the arriving police and then his body thrown off some ship out to sea. Instead, there will be the totally predictable gratuitous lamenting by talking heads and politicians, another gun control debate, and people watching this incident for hours and hours in a world of 6,000,000,000 with 10,000,000 crazy murderous people among them.


(At least then we'd know who really had been killed and that there was not fraud or coverup.)
 
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