Shootings at Batman Movie Premiere

[eccles]

onyx39 said:

"1135: Dr Stephen Wolf, from Denver Health, one of the hospitals receiving the wounded, says they have received eight patients with gunshot injuries, mostly to the trunk and the extremities.
"

eh?

I suppose that means everywhere apart from the head.

[Eric Mc]

King Herald said:

WTF is going wrong with the world?

Nothing that wasn't wrong with it before.

[bigTee]

One was a 3 month old baby.

Makes my fking blood boil.

[pidsy]

bigTee said:

One was a 3 month old baby.

Makes my fking blood boil.

not being horrible about it but why was a 3 month old baby in the cinema for a screeening of batman in the first place?

[Fittster]

eccles said:

Fittster said:

And my making it the top story on many media outlets the chance of a copycat are increased.

So you're saying no one should know about this?

How many deaths will you accept for your right to know the details of an initial mass killing?

http://www.davekopel.org/media/rmn/2006/only-press...

[TinyCappo]

The century 16 cinema is in part of a mall complex so it doesnt surprise me that the casualties involve small children and babies theres one report of a 9yo girl with gunshot wounds to her stomach also the perp had teargas/smoke grenades and riotgear and was wearing a gas mask.

[Iceman82]

Eric Mc said:

Nothing that wasn't wrong with it before.

Is that right though?

I am only 29 and so my experience is limited. However, did this type of thing really happen in the past? The States have always been realatively soft on gun control but I don't recall things like this happening with as much prevelance.

I think that's true of a number of crimes that we hear of nowadays. I know that a 24 hour instant news culture means that we are far more likely to hear about these events now, whereas perhaps in the past some events would not have got beyond local news, but I am surprised that some of the awful child killing, depraved sexual crimes and mass killings like this occurred in the recent past.

[Fittster]

TinyCappo said:

The century 16 cinema is in part of a mall complex so it doesnt surprise me that the casualties involve small children and babies there.

At midnight?

[Fittster]

Iceman82 said:

Eric Mc said:

Nothing that wasn't wrong with it before.

Is that right though?

Yes.

For example:

"Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was a student at the University of Texas at Austin and a former Marine who killed 16 people and wounded 32 others (a total of 49 victims including himself) during a shooting rampage on and around the university's campus on August 1, 1966."

[onyx39]

pidsy said:

bigTee said:

One was a 3 month old baby.

Makes my fking blood boil.

not being horrible about it but why was a 3 month old baby in the cinema for a screeening of batman in the first place?

maybe the parents could not get a baby sitter... hardly going to be upset by the film is it?

[otolith]

dandarez said:

ADs are prescribed willy nilly today.
Columbine killers were on ADs, awash with Serotonin.

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2011/10/we-...

Coincidence?

I would have thought that people who subsequently go postal are more likely than average to have mental health issues requiring treatment with ADs.

[TheHeretic]

onyx39 said:

maybe the parents could not get a baby sitter... hardly going to be upset by the film is it?

I'd be more concerned about the little git crying!

[TinyCappo]

onyx39 said:

pidsy said:

bigTee said:

One was a 3 month old baby.

Makes my fking blood boil.

not being horrible about it but why was a 3 month old baby in the cinema for a screeening of batman in the first place?

maybe the parents could not get a baby sitter... hardly going to be upset by the film is it?

as the cinema is part of a mall it is not beyond the relms of conceived possibility that the baby was not even in the cinema at all.

[eccles]

Fittster said:

Iceman82 said:

Eric Mc said:

Nothing that wasn't wrong with it before.

Is that right though?

Yes.

For example:

"Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was a student at the University of Texas at Austin and a former Marine who killed 16 people and wounded 32 others (a total of 49 victims including himself) during a shooting rampage on and around the university's campus on August 1, 1966."

Why did you mention that incident, well have copy cats now!

[johnfm]

Can only assume the guy wasn't pleased with the narrative of the first act. The first 30 minutes of an action film can be difficult - you have to combine action with some exposition of story world and, depending on the film you may need to introduce new characters. These conflicting needs of the story teller can lead to a 'saggy' end of the first act, which I guess maybe ticked this guy off a bit.

Or he was a gun owning nutter with a sad need to have a brief moment of 'fame'.

[ChandlerBing]

Really disturbing news. My thoughts are with the victims, their families and their friends.

[unrepentant]

Iceman82 said:

The States have always been realatively soft on gun control but I don't recall things like this happening with as much prevelance.

There are random shootings every day.

"Relatively soft"? They sell guns in Walmart here. Imagine buying a gun along with the groceries in Tesco. Almost anyone can get a gun or 3 or 6. Semi automatic? No problem. In many states you can carry concealed and the right are campaigning to have a bill passed that will make it illegal for states who do not permit carrying from preventing people from other states from carrying whilst in their state!

This guy is clearly a nutter but there are a lot of nutters about and when you sell guns like candy nutters will get them and use them.

[Apache]

Poor bds. Too many fked up people, too many guns

[Anthony Micallef]

TinyCappo said:

onyx39 said:

pidsy said:

bigTee said:

One was a 3 month old baby.

Makes my fking blood boil.

not being horrible about it but why was a 3 month old baby in the cinema for a screeening of batman in the first place?

maybe the parents could not get a baby sitter... hardly going to be upset by the film is it?

as the cinema is part of a mall it is not beyond the relms of conceived possibility that the baby was not even in the cinema at all.

The shooting took place in the cinema itself, a Midnight showing at that!

[Anthony Micallef]

onyx39 said:

pidsy said:

bigTee said:

One was a 3 month old baby.

Makes my fking blood boil.

not being horrible about it but why was a 3 month old baby in the cinema for a screeening of batman in the first place?

maybe the parents could not get a baby sitter... hardly going to be upset by the film is it?

Then don't go out then! Hardly rocket science!!