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

PETA has a point. The WBC doesn't. The attention is the end goal.

 

You should know about PETA.

 

I'm a long-standing member of People Eating Tasty Animals.

 

I would say it reflects merely that the cough medicine/meth head lobby has considerably less power than the NRA, seeing as there is no conceivable reason someone should be able to buy that many assault rounds without raising some kind of alarm with law enforcement. If we're going to have the fricken Patriot Act robbing us of our civil liberties, I'd like to believe we could use it to flag the actual citizens who are most likely to kill us as opposed to what books I might check out at the library.

 

Three pages of the wisdom of taking a child to the movie theater.
This is the kernel of the matter.
THE CASE-CRACKER!
There's a thousand Dr. Phil-style threads here, maybe you can solve this deeply vexing problem at one of those.

 

I read somewhere that this response is the way some people process a tragedy.

They say subconsciously, "That would never happen to me. I'd never take my baby to a midnight movie. I'm safe."

It may seem ridiculous, but this kind of reaction is actually very normal.

Other folks do seem to process it differently, though.

 

Right now, CNN is showing Don Lemon interviewing STEPHEN BALDWIN about gun control and the movie theater shooting. This is the best they can do? This is a legitimate news outlet?

 

Similar to what someone said on Twitter. Of everything that will be talked about after this, how odd is it that the only thing that will really change is you can't wear a mask to the movies.

 

It's called the Just World Fallacy.

There were some really fascinating studies where people were told a story about a woman going out for an evening. What she was wearing, where she went, how she acted, etc. At the end, they were either told she was raped and murdered, or she met the man of her dreams and married him. The ending significantly affected people's judgments of her actions throughout the night.

 

Hey, it's the weekend; give 'em a break.[/blue]

 

Baldwin became a born-again after Sept. 11.
He cut his teeth partly making violent movies.
He is conscientiously calling for violence in movies to be toned down.
But hey - a dumb Batman flick had nothing to do with any of this when the first thing the little scumbag told cops was that he was The Joker.

 

Why is this so hard for y'all to understand? It is a SIDE TOPIC. Nobody, at least on this thread, is saying the kid getting shot is the fault of the parents. Nobody. Some of us are just saying, as a side topic, that a 6-year-old doesn't belong at a midnight showing of that movie. Not due to the risk of being shot, but because it is too late and that movie really isn't appropriate for a kid that young.