<p>I haven’t seen the second or third batman movie, but I saw Batman begins and I liked it very much. I also don’t like violent movies and the director is not an action movie director. ( he directed Memento ) [Batman</a> Begins :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews](<a href=“http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050613/REVIEWS/50525003/]Batman”>http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050613/REVIEWS/50525003/)
I expect that the staging of this massacre at the movie will be a coincidence.</p>
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<p>A lot of people get killed, but nothing much more specific than that. Also, if I remember correctly (and obviously a spoiler if anyone cares >_>), the Joker lets himself get arrested at one point. A bomb kills someone while he’s in custody.</p>
<p>I haven’t been to a movie in probably four or five years and before that probably saw one every other year. We’re not big fans of the movie experience or popular culture.</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see what the parents went through when he was with them if that ever becomes available.</p>
<p>emerald, I really would be very surprised if his actions were a coincidence.
Yes,BC, it will be interesting to see what the parents will say, if anything.</p>
<p>I hears it was a scene from a comic box</p>
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<p>only the people that follow the law… yet the people that don’t follow the law would keep theirs. These are the same people that use their guns to murder other people… the lawbreakers. </p>
<p>I don’t see what this accomplishes.</p>
<p>It’s going to be hard to eliminate guns in the United States. Owning a gun is almost engrained into our culture. Right or wrong–> it’s there. Besides, when the government is giving them away to known criminals! we know guns aren’t going away…</p>
<p>Now whether somebody else would have been carrying a gun in that theater and if that would have made a difference, it really is hard to say. Would that difference have been positive or negative? </p>
<p>It appears to me that this individual knew what he was doing. This was premeditated murder and should be dealt with the toughest punishment allowed by law. I don’t think that a mentally insane individual could plan out this type of mass murder over several months…</p>
<p>Planning it for months and apparently going to the trouble of actually starting to withdraw from his graduate program…</p>
<p>It would be an interesting case study but the horror of his actions leaves me numb.</p>
<p>It is interesting how little info we have on him right now. Law enforcement is amazingly tight lipped on this as are his parents and relatives…</p>
<p>Leave it to The Onion to say it best</p>
<p>[Sadly</a>, Nation Knows Exactly How Colorado Shooting’s Aftermath Will Play Out | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source](<a href=“http://www.theonion.com/articles/sadly-nation-knows-exactly-how-colorado-shootings,28857/]Sadly”>Sadly, Nation Knows Exactly How Colorado Shooting's Aftermath Will Play Out)</p>
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<p>You’re right that it is ingrained, but I fail to see how there could be anything good about that.</p>
<p>if this guy had been an Arab he would’ve been called a terrorist. if he had been black, he would have been a thug. but since he’s white, he’s insane. if he wasn’t white the question of mental illness wouldn’t have even come up. the subtle racism is sad.</p>
<p>the number of gun shootings in this country is ridiculous. it’s so much greater than any other developed country in the Western world. even if you adjust for population differences, it’s still significant. we shouldn’t remove the right to bear arms, but we should at least place more restrictions on the amount of ammunition a person can buy at once and the types of weapons they could buy. people should have proper background and mental checks before the are able to get a gun. it has the power to take a human life; it shouldn’t be so easy to obtain.
the right to bear arms was determined in a time when people couldn’t imagine we’ld have such powerful weapons as we do today. it shouldn’t be eliminated, but gun control needs to change.</p>
<p>@lololu yet, people still talk about it, because they hope. nothing is ever decided right away. it’s sad how much time history takes to come to a conclusion on an issue, but it eventually does</p>
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<p>This individual was apparently buying this stuff over a period of several months and I’m sure from multiple suppliers. </p>
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<p>Do you want to restrict buying cars too? There have been 4 people killed in accidents in my town just this week after people crossed the middle line… Nobody killed by guns in 20 years…</p>
<p>^a gun’s sole purpose is to kill, or, at the very least, severely wound. a car’s primary purpose is transportation. </p>
<p>and nobody killed by guns in 20 years? that’s a highly inaccurate statement</p>
<p>It’s very hard to look at the faces of the victims on TV including the shooter’s dad, the 6-year-old in particular.</p>
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<p>What’s a car for and what’s a gun for, and how often does one use each? Is it common and easy for someone to use a car to kill dozens?</p>
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<p>Read my whole paragraph and it’s actually a highly accurate statement! There hasn’t been a murder in my town (10k population) since the early 1990s…</p>
<p>one town in the whole of the USA does not accurately reflect the amount of shootings or relevance of gun control in the whole country</p>
<p>Nevermind stressedouttt, I’m going to quit trying to explain it to you. It’s really not a difficult concept that I just presented.</p>
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<p>Wow, a death rate of 2% of a large high school sized town killed per year over the past week. That’s some very worrying data.</p>
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<p>Some might even call it misleadingly simplistic.</p>
<p>[Don’t</a> Jump to Conclusions About the Killer](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/opinion/sunday/the-unknown-why-in-the-aurora-killings.html]Don’t”>Opinion | The Unknown Why in the Aurora Killings - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Didn’t we have a police force department or group that monitors the internet and personal conversations for people possibly linked to a terrorist group?</p>
<p>Why can’t we have a department in the police force that monitors certain activities in the internet, especially internet market place for transactions that may lead to violence? For example, people who search for “how to make a homemade grenade” or for people who buy guns and ammunition online?</p>
<p>It doesn’t mean someone who does that will immediately be interrogated, but at least they should be closely monitored. The IP should be tracked, and the activity of that computer should tracked down, and monitored.</p>