12 dead, 58 injured in Colorado at midnight showing of Dark Knight

Well, since the 25-year-old mother was so obviously immature and intellectually challenged, she'll probably take the news of her daughter's death in stride. I take it you'd like to volunteer to tell her IllMil? Maybe you could throw in a few "WTF were you thinking?" bombs while you're at it.

 

I'm guessing in his sick head, he wanted to live through the shootings, get arrested and sit there like The Joker and not say a word. Then a huge explosion would go off in a random part of the town, and the police would want to know if he was linked to it. This was all a big game to him, but no one opened his apartment door. i'm sure that is pissing him off right now.

Did he have any ID on him at all at the time of the shooting?

 

Well now we're talking about the fact that you apparently date your sister.

 

IllMill is making a run on the "stupidest body of posts in SJ history" title.

 

In my city they said cops were supposed to check in at theaters in their patrol area. Classic overreaction and I really wonder how many other crimes happened as a result. Is the whole copycat possibility worth obsessing about at every theater in the world?

 

Can we move off this tangent about the advisability of taking small children to grocery stores, late-night movies, etc.? It is absolutely irrelevant to the story unfolding. The tragedy is not that parents made a decision that in hindsight you feel the need to second-guess. The tragedy is that some motherfucker with an assault rifle decided he needed to end as many lives as he could.

We need to learn the shooter's motivation so we can do what we can to prevent future tragedies, not dissect the parents' motivation that night. This second-guessing is how we try to distance ourselves from tragedy and falsely believe it couldn't happen to us because we maintain we wouldn't have made those decisions.

 

I did read that one of the parents at the movie had just graduated with a pharmacy degree from New Mexico. I would never take my kid to a showing of this, but the dad isn't a moron.

 

I totally agree. But if you were a police chief and chose to make the "smart" call and something did happen, reckon you could get a job delivering pizzas?

 

Very good point.

 

I suppose.

But I do wonder if that's just the info the police released and then the actual working cops just gave it a shrug and a quick drive-by. I hope so, anyway.

 

The biggest thing we could all do to stop the next one from happening is to stop caring about it if we don't live in the area. The obsession with all the details leads to 24-7 news coverage, which leads to all the attention and terror that the shooters crave.

 

Holmes told the police about the booby-trapped apartment.