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

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Just watched a police update....12 dead...many injured, no evidence of any other participants then they one they have in custody...still dont know the motivation. They showed a pic of him he looks like a loony toon...my guess hes just a young guy thats cracked
 
Dittohead not! said:
and the equally silly argument will be made that, if only more of the theater goers had been armed, perhaps they could have taken him down.

and his political party, religion, tastes in movies, sexual orientation, and a whole lot of other irrelevant issues will be brought up as well.
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Scumbags do love to prey on the unarmed. I think there should have been at least a armed security guard or two there.
 
Eighty Deuce said:
Silly ? This video was from an incident exactly one week ago today. North of me. Only takes one minute to watch, and it is non-stop action ;)

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That's pretty badass of that guy, but of course, the situation at hand is an completely different situation. The guys in that video probably weren't there to kill people. They weren't decked out in bullet proof vests, neck guards and whatever else this dude had on. They didn't throw a smoke or tear gas bomb into their target area and they didn't just start shooting people at random.

You're comparing apples to oranges. I highly doubt that weapons would have done much good in this situation.
 
Eighty Deuce said:
Silly ? This video was from an incident exactly one week ago today. North of me. Only takes one minute to watch, and it is non-stop action ;)
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Looks like he ran off the armed robber. Good for him. Now, imagine the same thing happening in a crowded theater with a crazy person in possession of automatic weapons. I'm not so sure the outcome would have been quite so happy.

Were there, in fact, armed people in the theater? If so, why didn't they take the nutter out?
 
Dittohead not! said:
Looks like he ran off the armed robber. Good for him. Now, imagine the same thing happening in a crowded theater with a crazy person in possession of automatic weapons. I'm not so sure the outcome would have been quite so happy.

Were there, in fact, armed people in the theater? If so, why didn't they take the nutter out?
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either there was no one with a gun, or the folks with guns were too scared to act.
 
Just listened to an interview with the father of the 6 year old girl. Not cool crazy dude...not cool.
 
ThePlayDrive said:
That's pretty badass of that guy, but of course, the situation at hand is an completely different situation. The guys in that video probably weren't there to kill people. They weren't decked out in bullet proof vests, neck guards and whatever else this dude had on. They didn't throw a smoke or tear gas bomb into their target area and they didn't just start shooting people at random.

You're comparing apples to oranges. I highly doubt that weapons would have done much good in this situation.
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Do you have any insight regarding the statement you just made? Did you actually think before responding?
 
lpast said:
Just watched a police update....12 dead...many injured, no evidence of any other participants then they one they have in custody...still dont know the motivation. They showed a pic of him he looks like a loony toon...my guess hes just a young guy thats cracked
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I just heard on the radio, witnesses said during the credits someones cell phone rang and the person got up and opened the exit door to let the shooter in. Dunno how credible though.
 
Meathead said:
Do you have any insight regarding the statement you just made? Did you actually think before responding?
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The final tally is 12 dead, 59 injured: one in the ajoining theater; a round went through the wall.

Gunmam captured: 24 year old James Holmes: dressed in combat gear, head to toe. 2 Gloch .40s a Remington 12 GA, and an AR-15. So far the AR and one Glock is said to have been used.

The shooter entered through the emergency exit in the front right of the theater: it has been reported that there was a suspicious person hangin around that door before the movie started, otherwise the cops have no idea how he got in.

The shooter's apartment was boobie trapped with all sorts of devices so robots are going in.

Personal note: this took a lot of prep time, so I'm really hoping that an "insanity plea" is not accepted.
 
Prof. Peabody said:
I just heard on the radio, witnesses said during the credits someones cell phone rang and the person got up and opened the exit door to let the shooter in. Dunno how credible though.
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No.. He went out the exit door, did something to prevent it from locking, suited up and came back in that door.
 
Meathead said:
Do you have any insight regarding the statement you just made? Did you actually think before responding?
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What is this comment? I wrote facts. How is that not clear?
 
Dittohead not! said:
and the equally silly argument will be made that, if only more of the theater goers had been armed, perhaps they could have taken him down.
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Dittohead not! said:
Looks like he ran off the armed robber. Good for him. Now, imagine the same thing happening in a crowded theater with a crazy person in possession of automatic weapons. I'm not so sure the outcome would have been quite so happy.

Were there, in fact, armed people in the theater? If so, why didn't they take the nutter out?
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I was responding to your top post. I cannot affirm that someone armed as the old man would have taken the same action, or been successful, as the old man was.

What I demonstrated was that your original post was a bit uninformed.

After watching that old man, my belief is that had he, or another of his angst, been in the threater, and had a shot, they'd have taken it.

I am not blaming gun control one way or the other. Not advocating one way or the other. Just providing an actual example instead of unfounded conjecture.
 
AURORA, Colo. — Police detained a man at the Aurora Medical Center who they said became enraged after learning his 6-year-old daughter had been killed in the Aurora movie theater shooting Friday morning.

The man’s daughter was attending the premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises” with his ex-wife, who is also in critical condition after being shot in the chest.The man, who asked not to be identified, spoke with our Heidi Hemmat.
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Video: Police detain man enraged over loss of child in Aurora theater shooting | KDVR.com | Denver Breaking News, Weather & Sports – FOX 31 News in Denver, Colorado

“I was called at 3 in the morning by a family member in New York telling me (my ex-wife) had been shot and they didn’t know where my child was,” the man said. “After three hours sitting at Children’s Hospital in Aurora … after being thrown in circles and told me I’d be able to see her in just a moment, I find out my child is dead.”
 
jet57 said:
The final tally is 12 dead, 59 injured: one in the ajoining theater; a round went through the wall.

Gunmam captured: 24 year old James Holmes: dressed in combat gear, head to toe. 2 Gloch .40s a Remington 12 GA, and an AR-15. So far the AR and one Glock is said to have been used.

The shooter entered through the emergency exit in the front right of the theater: it has been reported that there was a suspicious person hangin around that door before the movie started, otherwise the cops have no idea how he got in.

The shooter's apartment was boobie trapped with all sorts of devices so robots are going in.

Personal note: this took a lot of prep time, so I'm really hoping that an "insanity plea" is not accepted.
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And his hair, and goatee, were painted red. He has claimed he was "the Joker".
 
ThePlayDrive said:
That's pretty badass of that guy, but of course, the situation at hand is an completely different situation. The guys in that video probably weren't there to kill people. They weren't decked out in bullet proof vests, neck guards and whatever else this dude had on. They didn't throw a smoke or tear gas bomb into their target area and they didn't just start shooting people at random.

You're comparing apples to oranges. I highly doubt that weapons would have done much good in this situation.
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Weapons may have been a deterent. Let's face facts, these wackos choose unarmed taegets.
 
Thunder said:
what, he had x-ray vision?

he could tell which theatre had folks with guns and which didn't?
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Chances are, there would be few, if any armed citizens.

Have you noticed that these incidents dont happen at NRA events?
 
Eighty Deuce said:
Let's see if ABC reports that the suspect is a registered Democrat.

Not that I think his being a Democrat has a damn thing to do with it, except that the liberal media, such as ABC displayed, deserves a seat at a midnight movie on occasion.
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The Hell do you get your information from? You're engaging in exactly the same speculative sort of behavior that the "mainstream media" you victimize yourself over is doing. Breitbart's website retracted that information:

From Breitbart.com:

James Holmes, the suspect arrested in connection with the mass shootings at a screening of the new Batman movie early this morning in Aurora, CO, could be a registered Democrat, according to documents obtained by Breitbart News. Earlier, ABC News' Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos speculated on Good Morning America that Holmes was a Tea Party member, based solely on a name appearing on a Tea Party website.


Update (12:49 EDT): Newly-released information on the suspect's birthdate (which, as indicated in our initial report, was a slight mismatch), combined with new details Breitbart News has obtained about the suspect's likely addresses, together suggest that the suspect may, in fact, not have been registered to vote.
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Not only was Holmes not a Democrat, but he wasn't even registered to vote.

I repeat: please stop martyring yourself.
 
apdst said:
Weapons may have been a deterent. Let's face facts, these wackos choose unarmed taegets.
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And unfortunately, this one went with the smoke grenade. Obscures his vision a bit too, but still increases his advantage. He had the ballistic helmet, neck protector, and upper-body armor. Seemed he was ready for suicide by cop, after a shoot-out. Yet he surrendered.
 
Captain America said:
I have a fifty-cent solution for this killer. A bullet between the eyes. This maggot, P.O.S. deserves to die very slow and painfully.
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Your anger and desire to look like mr tough internet guy has you posting contradicting things within 3 sentences.
 
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