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

Well, Manny did tell Tony Montana in Scarface that "the jails here are like hotels."

 

And they need that troll boner for the Maureen Dowd sackfest on deadline.

 

On the coverage last night, there was some discussion that "it could be a year" before the trial starts.

Now that there is some bullshit.

Ring him up and string him up.

 

Yeah, too bad we have that picky little thing called the Bill of Rights.

 

I really hope the DA was referring to the length of the proceedings when she said "it wasn't a slam-dunk."

 

Or the DA is just giving a cautious answer. If there is a successful finding Holmes is insane, it would make the DA look pretty dumb if she said it was a slam dunk.

 

The only reason he isn't dead already.

 

The calm, rationale response to this event -- background checks for gun purchases up 41 percent in Colorado, and instructors say business is booming as people take the classes required for concealed-carry permits.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21142159/gun-sales-up-since-tragedy

Yeah, that'll go well.

 

Cowboy up!

 

I say release him into the general population... Maybe a guard can "accidentally" look the other way and this problem can be taken care of Dahmer-style.

 

Those comparisons are always completely misleading. After all, they have all of 3-4 days to use as a basis.

I worked at a paper where we had one of the big tragedies happened in our backyard and we did the identical story and it was as much bullshit then as it is now...

These kinds of things always get one side going, "If guns were banned, this wouldn't have happened." and the other side says, "If someone in the theater was packing heat, this wouldn't have happened..."

Both arguments are pretty weak.

 

You have

You think there's some other unconsidered reason for this?

Between Friday and Sunday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation approved background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm — a 43 percent increase over the previous Friday through Sunday and a 39 percent jump over those same days on the first weekend of July.

Those numbers aren't misleading. I assume they will smooth out again after the initial burst, but that's a whole lot of people who weren't going to buy a gun before Friday who now are.