The Aurora Mass Murderer

By Doug Giles / 21 July 2012 / 4 comments

I’m not buying he “just snapped” smack. You don’t just snap and methodically take out an entire movie theater.

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Fox News– The 24-year-old man who police say walked into a Colorado movie theater and sprayed patrons with gunfire is a grad school dropout who grew up in San Diego and had only one known brush with the law — a traffic ticket last year.

Tall and dark-haired, James Egan Holmes stared clear-eyed at the camera in a 2004 high school yearbook snapshot, wearing a white junior varsity soccer uniform — No. 16. The son of a nurse, Arlene, and a software company manager, Robert, James Holmes was a brilliant science scholar in college.

But Friday morning just past midnight, police say Holmes burst into the crowded Century 16 movie theaters in Aurora, Colo., where the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Returns” was being shown and opened fire with three guns, killing at least 12 and injuring scores.

What snapped in the neuroscience student’s brain is unclear. Jackie Mitchell, a furniture mover who lives several blocks from the suspect’s apartment building in Colorado, said he had drinks with Holmes at a local bar on Tuesday night, though he gave no sign of being distressed or violent.

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skspls

According to what little evidence is publicly known, Holmes planned his attack weeks, if not months in advance. It appears that law enforcement officials have lost interest in disarming devices in Holmes’ apartment and will likely detonate them instead. It would be a shame to lose that evidence, not to mention the probable property loss in adjacent units.
Arizona_Don

What the gun control nuts don’t seem to understand is at this point in time in this country it would literately be impossible to confiscate “all” the guns. There is always two ways to approach this problem and the gun control advocates always approach it wrong. There is a difference between enforcing the law and protecting individual citizens. The former is law enforcement’s job the ladder is not. If it suddenly became law enforcement’s job to protect every citizen the number of personal would have to be increased 20 fold at least. In the final analysis the only person responsible for your safety is you. There will always be crooks and there will always be nut jobs. If guns are confiscated could knives or baseball bats be next or screw drivers, or a number of other weapons? How about wasp spray and knives?

We have discovered here in Arizona, laws restricting guns is not even remotely the answer. Reducing the restrictions “is” the answer. Even though we have a bad illegal problem here, since the law was passed eliminating the need for a concealed carry permit crime has decreased considerably. Even car jacking. The reason is there is a chance everyone is armed. If you were a crook would that not deter you? An armed society is a polite society we prove that daily here. It is absolutely positive law abiding armed citizen’s are the crooks worst enemy. But if the law abiding citizens are disarmed the criminal is set free to scourge and plunder. Why is this obvious to us and not to them?

Interesting as it is, it is not necessary for all citizens to carry a weapon. The fact the law exists that says they can (carry concealed) is all that is needed to be a deterrent. However, I am aware it is impossible to convince the gun control advocates of this fact.

It is also obvious this killer knew how to set explosives. That means he did not have to use guns to kill here he could have bobby trapped the theater just as easily. For all the gun control advocates, guns are not the only way to kill people. Many others are readily available to the knowledgeable killer. This incident proves that!
- Ciarrai
  
  What if there were a system in place where a guy like Holmes trying to buy two 40 cal. pistols, an assault rifle, a shotgun and thousands of rounds for them would send up a red flag which would precipitate a visit from someone in law enforcement? Maybe 12 people would still be alive and 50 something wouldn’t be wounded, etc. And, dude, you are in need of a towel to dry off. You are all wet if you think this Aurora massacre proves anything other than guns kill the vast majority of people. Yeah, he could have booby-trapped the theater, but he didn’t. He killed, injured and maimed with GUNS. Why is this such a hard reality to come to grips with? Most sane people realize that these 4 guns removed from the killers hands would have been a good thing. Are you and your fellow gun folk willing to say no? Holmes should have been able to buy those gun and all that ammo and to hell with all those dead and wounded and the families left behind? What side are you folks on?
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