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

This is not going to end well for the school.

 

Someone apparently did try to stop the guy.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20120802/NEWS/308020061/More-heroics-by-Jonathan-Blunk-possible-in-Colorado-theater-massacre?source=nletter-news

 

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine said President Obama is behind the shootings.


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/megadeth-singer-obama-is-behind-aurora-sikh-temple-shootings-20120816

Maybe he should have stayed on drugs.

 

Dave Mustaine: The Natalie Maines of death metal.

 

Very lengthy NYT piece today on Holmes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/us/before-gunfire-in-colorado-theater-hints-of-bad-news-about-james-holmes.html?_r=1

 

Interesting read.

 

It's lazy to keep painting this guy as exceptionally smart when he didn't show he was any different talent-wise from his peers in an advanced science program.

 

Are you talking about this piece specifically, or the coverage in general?

 

Meanwhile, many of the same folks calling for more laws restricting gun ownership are also calling for the legalization of drugs.

I'm sure that won't have any negative consequences.

 

Is it even arguable, though, that where marijuana goes (and I'm not now nor have I ever been a user) the consequences of criminalization far outweigh the benefits?

 

"Negative consequences" such as . . . ?

 

The coverage in general. But this gets into it early.
I have seen a few stories refer to him as brilliant.
His own internship supervisor even said he was a poor candidate and not any kind of precocious scientist.