<p>Teh “why” is very easy - to obtain celebrity status, book deal, etc. We do not punish severely enough to prevent.<br>
Sometime the “why” is different, but not in this case. Sometime, it is caused by 'correctness" as it was in another shooting when 14 where killed. "Why"s are always very very easy to determine, but what is a point if we are not doing anything about these "why"s. There is none, waste time/discussion, just an entertainment for the rest of the country!! Very very sad and will not change any time soon…</p>
<p>So much for all the FoxNews rumors this morning that it was gang-related. Really…</p>
<p>As for the reaction of the alleged shooter’s mom, I have the same question every time: What are the families of these disturbed young adults supposed to do? Let’s say she knew that he was highly unstable, mentally ill, potentially violent…what was she supposed to do?</p>
<p>After the Virginia Tech shootings, NPR did a piece on the ability of psychiatrists to predict who will act and who will not…their sucess rate at predicitng is 50-50 - as in, flip a coin. You can’t lock up people who have not committed a crime, it’s extremely difficult to involuntarily commit someone. How do we prevent this?</p>
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We can’t prevent it. I think it makes people somehow feel better to feel that somehow we can prevent it.</p>
<p>^This would be profiling, there is huge NO-NO for profiling, we absolutely cannot discriminate against phycho’s, they are so precious, their rights have to be protected at the cost of others’ lives, so do not even think this way, it will get you into trouble and nothing else.<br>
Nobody can prevent anything here, because the only prevention is much more severe punishment for crimes, yes, even phycho’s will think twice, yes, they still have some brains. The prisons are luxury accomodations in comparison to what they should be…</p>
<p>*The “why” is very easy - to obtain celebrity status, book deal, etc. We do not punish severely enough to prevent. *</p>
<p>Capital punishment is not a deterrent, or were you thinking of something more punitive?</p>
<p>The state of mental health care in this country certainly does not bode well in any effort to prevent things like this.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry, but none of that makes the slightest bit of sense. Whoever does something like this, except for a terrorist with specific political motivation, is mentally unbalanced. Book deals, really? And punishment, either of them or of others, does not affect the truly mentally unbalanced.</p>
<p>I see TSA type security coming to a theatre near you. The theatres will love it because it will prevent people from smuggling their own snacks and drinks in.</p>
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<p>Oh give it a rest. Dunblane, Hungerford ring any bells?</p>
<p>I, like so many others, went to the midnight premier last night. When we got out, I saw it developing on my phone. The story spread VERY quickly across the packed movie theater and shock and horror were very apparent. Everyone was stunned and people moved very quickly to their cars. </p>
<p>I just have no words. I don’t believe in prayer, but my thoughts are with the family. </p>
<p>There is really NOTHING to be learned from this. There are crazies everywhere. You just have to be aware. The only thing we can take comfort in (for lack of a better word) is that these types of random stranger violence are so rare. The more sickening reality is that if someone’s going to hurt you- it’s almost always going to be someone you know. That’s comforting to me because it allows me not to live in fear of the outside world- even when I see things like this.</p>
<p>This so heartbreaking. Our thoughts and prayers to all the victims of this crime. </p>
<p>Why were a baby and a 6 yr. old watching a midnight showing of a PG-13 movie?</p>
<p>I know where that theater is :<</p>
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<p>No. This not looking like some publicity-seeking wanna-be celebrity. Early reports say the perpetrator is a fourth-year medical student from the University of Colorado, previously from the San Diego area.</p>
<p>And yes, very probably mentally ill.</p>
<p>NJSue: It’s hard to deny they happen more often in the US than in other countries. Data doesn’t lie, while it happens in other countries, not as often.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry, I am not understanding how you could know what the reason for this action is at this early juncture? How do you know what the “why” in “this case” is?</p>
<p>The school’s spokeperson is saying he WAS a student there until last month when he withdrew. And he had just recently moved in to his apt. that is apparently “booby-trapped”.</p>
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<p>CNN says he was a neuroscience PhD candidate at University of Colorado. Enrolled last June but was in process of withdrawing.</p>
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<p>And that’s not my point. When the shootings in Toulouse and Winnenden happened, my immediate impulse was not to go on a board and proclaim that I’m glad I’m an American. It’s a comment that exposes a fair degree of self-congratulatory schadenfreude which I find in poor taste, to say the least.</p>
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